{"id":2040,"date":"2026-10-27T08:35:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T16:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/?p=2040"},"modified":"2026-10-27T08:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T16:35:11","slug":"agm-report-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/?p=2040","title":{"rendered":"AGM Report 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/AGM-group-photo-1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"517\" src=\"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/AGM-group-photo-1-1024x517.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2041\" srcset=\"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/AGM-group-photo-1-1024x517.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/AGM-group-photo-1-300x151.jpg 300w, https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/AGM-group-photo-1-767x387.jpg 767w, https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/AGM-group-photo-1-1536x775.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/AGM-group-photo-1-500x252.jpg 500w, https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/AGM-group-photo-1-2048x1033.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We gathered for a 20th Anniversary Retrospective and cake on October 25th in the lovely Chapter Room of Christ Church Cathedral, saying good-bye to our two outgoing board members May Shihadeh and Shrikant Shenwai, and welcoming two new board members, Grace Khalifa and Arpita Sahasrabudhe. May and Shrikant are warmly thanked for their 4 years of service to the Board. Here are the links for:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>our <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1UMKEX2gqkJ3riGFrxI9Q_R-qv7X7fUXO\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AGM report<\/a> <\/strong>for 2026\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>a 3-min. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_hdNDKkrPUg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Retrospective video<\/a> <\/strong>of VMS 2006 to 2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our board members for 2027 are: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Arpita<\/strong> <strong>Sahasrabudhe<\/strong> (Hindu Seat)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Claire Grant\u00a0<\/strong> (Buddhist Seat)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Fletcher Bennett<\/strong> (Bah\u00e1\u2019\u00ed Seat)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Grace Khalifa<\/strong> (Muslim Seat)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>John Carter<\/strong> (Indigenous Spirituality Seat)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Rabbi Harry Brechner<\/strong> (Jewish Seat)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Rev. Jeannine Friesen<\/strong> (Christian Seat)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Rev. Lesia Kohut<\/strong> (New Thought Seat)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Sheila Flood<\/strong> (Executive Director)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Taranjeet Singh Makker<\/strong> (Sikh Seat)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/slide-for-john-carter.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"619\" src=\"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/slide-for-john-carter-1024x619.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2042\" srcset=\"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/slide-for-john-carter-1024x619.png 1024w, https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/slide-for-john-carter-300x181.png 300w, https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/slide-for-john-carter-767x464.png 767w, https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/slide-for-john-carter-496x300.png 496w, https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/slide-for-john-carter.png 1346w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Arpita-and-Shrikant-slide.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"609\" src=\"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Arpita-and-Shrikant-slide-1024x609.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2043\" srcset=\"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Arpita-and-Shrikant-slide-1024x609.png 1024w, https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Arpita-and-Shrikant-slide-300x179.png 300w, https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Arpita-and-Shrikant-slide-768x457.png 768w, https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Arpita-and-Shrikant-slide-500x298.png 500w, https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Arpita-and-Shrikant-slide-1536x914.png 1536w, https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Arpita-and-Shrikant-slide.png 1872w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We gathered for a 20th Anniversary Retrospective and cake on October 25th in the lovely Chapter Room of Christ Church Cathedral, saying good-bye to our two outgoing board members May Shihadeh and Shrikant Shenwai, and welcoming two new board members, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/?p=2040\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2044,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040\/revisions\/2044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriamultifaith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}