Outreach Projects

Our Outreach Committee strives to fulfill Jesus’ command that we help feed, clothe and care for the sick and imprisoned and that we welcome the stranger. We work in all of our programs to meet our new Mission Statement: To know Jesus and to make Him known.

1. Financial Support for Many Community, National and International NGO’s

We financially support community organizations such as for example, The Central Food Cupboard, Kawartha Lakes Food Source, A Place Called Home, Telecare and many more. Some of our members also volunteer at some of these organizations.We financially support several National charitable organizations, e.g. Faithworks, Council of the North, Moorelands Camp and many more.
We financially support a large number of International aid and development agencies, e.g. Stephen Lewis Foundation, Jamaican Self-Help, Doctors Without Borders, and many, many more.

2. Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund

We strongly support this fund as the Anglican Church of Canada’s agency for sustainable development, relief in time of natural or human-made disaster, refugee aid and sponsorship and global justice. As an example, the PWRDF with the Canadian Food Grains Bank has recently supplied food and cooking supplies to people in areas of drought in Kenya.

3. Council of the North

We support this important ministry of the Canadian Anglican Church as it responds to the challenges of God’s call to mission and ministry in our northern regions. One of their recent initiatives has been a program to help stem the rising number of suicides by aboriginal youth. We are involved both financially and through parish education .

4. Anglican Appeal

This national program directly supports mission and ministry with our church partners overseas and also in our north, through programs such as Volunteers in Mission and The Anglican Healing Fund. The latter can bring a homeless youth into a shelter where that person can be supported to make lasting life changes.

5. Faithworks

This diocesan program supports community ministries and partners such as the Anglican United Refugee Alliance, the Bridge Prison Ministry in Brampton, Toronto Urban Native ministry, and ten others. One of the partner organizations is Loft Community Services.

6. Semi-annual Outreach Services

In these Sunday morning services, we try to balance service and worship. At each service we focus on one particular outreach project to increase parish understanding and participation, We recently hosted Fiona Brownlee who spoke on her role with The Council of the North.

7. Refugee Sponsorship

In 2005 St.Paul’s sponsored the emigration to Canada of a young Rwandan man from a refugee camp in Kenya. This man has done very well and is currently enrolled at Brock University. We continue to support him financially and in other ways just as he has blessed our parish with his faith, his optimism, hard work and winning smile.

We sponsored a young woman from Sudan in 2006 for a brief time until she came under the umbrella of the World University Service of Canada.

 8. Fair Trade Coffee Sales

This program helps support small scale coffee growers by giving them a fair price for their product in order that they may sustain their operations and support their families with a reasonable income. We accept pre-paid orders the first Sunday of the month and deliver the coffee the following week. Our supplier charges us a very reasonable price for a high grade product.

 9. Foster Children

We help pay educational and living costs for 6 children in the developing world.

Four of these children are in SOS homes in Latin America. Two, one in Guatemala and one in Haiti, are sponsored through The Arms of Jesus Children’s Mission.

Here are some recent images and letters from one of our Foster children.

 10. Lenten Lecture Series

Our first series in 2009 offered to the general public.  Lectures on principles of six of the world’s major religions. These were so well received in the community that in 2010 and 2011, we focused on different Christian denominations.

During Lent in 2012 we will present a more in depth look at 5 of the world’s major religions. These will include Native Spirituality, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism and Buddhism.The sessions will run Wed. evenings at 7:30 p.m. from Feb. 29 to Mar. 28.  All are again welcome.

 11. Angel Tree Christmas Program

We purchase Christmas gifts for local children of prisoners at the Central East Correctional Centre in Lindsay. These gifts are at the request of some of the inmates and are given in their names. This helps maintain the connection between parent and child as we act as Jesus’ hands and feet.

 12. Kenya Outreach

In partnership with St. Barnabas Church in Peterborough, we help support the educational training of two young women in Kenya. These women are AIDS orphans AND the nieces of one of St. Barnabas’ parishioners. They would otherwise not be able to afford this training which will be a significant, and much needed boost to family income.

We welcome all to our quarterly meetings after services on the second Sundays of March, June, September and December.  Please consider joining us in one or more of these important ministries and you may just receive more than you give!