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Toronto Southeast Pastoral Charges' OUTREACH!
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Here are some of your Outreach projects to inform and inspire each other! St. Mark's, Scarborough In conjunction with Scarborough Centre for Healthy Communities, St. Mark's United Church currently sponsors Holiday Hampers for 50 local families in need, during the Christmas Season. Each hamper contains non-perishable food for one week, a $50 gift card for fresh food, plus gifts for the whole family. The recipients of the hampers are clients of the local food bank. Members of our congregation deliver the hampers the week before Christmas. Birchcliff Bluffs, Scarborough Birchcliff Bluffs United Church hosts the Churches By the Bluffs Community Services food bank in our building and is one of its founding churches along with two Baptist, a Presbyterian and an Anglican church in our neighbourhood. Several other United Churches in the area provide support with food and financial donations. Three congregation members serve on the Board of Directors and as officers of the food bank corporation and many members of the congregation volunteer at the food bank. We provide the food bank with a large area of our basement as dedicated space for food storage and accommodation of its fridges and freezers and exclusive use of our church basement on Wednesdays for receiving and sorting of the food donations and on Thursdays for service of clients. The food bank is an agency of Daily Bread, serving southwest Scarborough between Victoria Park Avenue to the east, St. Clair Avenue to the north, Midland Avenue to the east and Lake Ontario to the south. It offers a grocery program, a meal program (a meal of soup and sandwiches is served to clients when they attend the food bank), a free income tax service to assist clients in obtaining their child tax credits, HST and income tax refunds, access to computers to obtain government forms, prepare resumes etc., assistance with job applications, referral to social service agencies and other supports. Shower facilities are also available to those needing them. The church holds two major fundraising events during the year to support the food bank. Several men from the Seaton House Birchmount Residence (slated to be closed in 2012 by the City) work as highly valued volunteers at the food bank and volunteer opportunities are also provided for Ontario Works qualification purposes. The church operates the Bluffs Boutique – a thrift shop offering gently used clothing and household items at very low prices – during food bank service hours, the proceeds of which support a foster child in Colombia, with the balance divided between the church and the Mission and Service Fund. The Boutique occupies a room in the church basement. Gail Barkic is President of the food bank corporation and chair of the church's Outreach Ministry Team. Her contact information is: Phone: 416.436.8464; or email: gailbarkic@rogers.com. Scarborough Bluffs United, Scarborough Local Food Bank – we try to have a monthly suggested donation theme i.e.: soups & stews, canned meat etc. to help keep the need to donate fresh in the minds of the congregation. We also encourage donations of 10 grocery store cards in lieu of non perishable food items. Family residence/local motels, sheltering the homeless United Church Mission and Service Caring Alliance, a local multi faith group working to end poverty and homelessness, and to support those in need Habitat for Humanity, both financially and by providing meals for site workers There are several groups who operate in our church building, and a few of them come under the Outreach umbrella. Members of our committee liaise with these groups...Adult Literacy & Basic Skills, a concert committee, and Scarborough Bluffs Music Programme, an affordable opportunity for local children to have music lessons...piano, guitar, vocal & rhythm. Have sent funds to such groups as...Global Medic; a local banquet hall which provides a full Christmas dinner for the needy in our community; Ryan's Well, We decide on an annual basis where our Lenten & Advent/White Gift offerings will be sent. We try to send one to support a local charity, and one to a global charity each year.
Projects we organize/participate in:
Northlea United, North York Sleeping Children Around the World The Outreach Committee will once again hold our Advent appeal for the 'Sleeping Children Around the World' bedkits. Please see the photos and information posted on the Outreach board. More informaiton can be found on their website www.scaw.org. Each bedkit costs $35.00. Thank you again for your wonderful support of this Charity. White Gift Sunday
This year, the Outreach Committee has asked specifically for donations to New Circles Community Services and to the Food Bank. Both of these organizations service the Flemingdon/Thorncliffe Park area.
UCW Mitten Tree Warm winter clothing will also be given to our neighbours at Flemingdon Park and Thorncliffe Park! Your contributions will be very welcomed.
Knox, Agincourt
Toronto Chinese United Church, Scarborough
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Parkwoods United Church, North York Mitten Tree – mittens, scarves and hats are knitted throughout the year, and then placed decoratively on a Christmas tree in the foyer of the Church. The knitted goods are delivered in January to highly receptive school principals in neighbouring schools for distribution to children as needed. Our usual annual total of pairs of mittens for children is approximately 65. Christmas Food Drive For Rayoak Food Bank – Throughout the year, baking gifts surplus to a major supermarket are delivered by congregants on a weekly basis to the local food bank. As well, food donations for the Foodbank are collected weekly. Special food needs are emphasized at Christmas, and a financial donation accompanies the food donations. Christmas Cheer Bags – Gifts that include some home baking, fruit and a Christmas plant are delivered to those members of the congregation who are prevented from attending Church or who have suffered bereavement or illness through the year. Sunday School students prepare personalized cards for the recipients. The gifts are hand-delivered close to December 25th. Special Shelters – are targeted in the neighbourhood and inner city for money and material supplies relevant to their needs. The year-long drive is given added profile at Christmas. In recent years, we have been targeting three shelters: Out-of-the-Cold, and South Presbytery-designated-Massey Centre, Eva's Place. Economic Distress – A variety of monitoring and responding methods have been developed for high-need families that have come to our attention, especially over the Christmas season. Special supplements to the Benevolent Fund have been designed and orchestrated to support the outreach by our Minister. A Major Overseas Project Gift Of Caring has brought new life to a tiny village in Kenya. Aid ranges from the nutritional (goats, rabbits, chickens) to handwork (knitting needles and wool) to schooling (full school uniforms for orphan children) to facilitating clean and plentiful water supply by replacing a dysfunctional water pump – campaign under way for the latter. Self-sustenance is the goal of the Project. The Gift Of Caring is structured to provide alternative Christmas giving, by printing attractive Christmas Cards signaling that a gift has been made 'in your name' and specifying the nature of the gift. Now completing its 2nd year, about $7500 has been raised for Gift Of Caring thus far. The Project for the village orphan children and HIV Positive adults has yielded dramatic gains in physical and mental health. Two Parkwoods' parishioners donate their time and talent to facilitate the project on-site; they provide 1st hand feedback on its results. 100% of donated money goes directly to the cause. Operation Christmas Child – has operated for many years at Parkwoods, with an average of 85 boxes filled annually. Further information on any of the above projects is available by contacting johnhorton@rogers.com; 416-449-1142. A Message About Advent Giving from the PresbyteryThe Mission & Outreach Team of Toronto Southeast Presbytery requests that your congregation consider the attached organizations for your advent or other givings in 2010-2011. Many have been hit hard by the economic down-turn and the reduction of funds they receive from the Mission Support Fund. M & O has visited or will be visiting these organizations (most of whom have long-standing ties with the United Church) and can attest to the good work they do in our presbytery and, in some cases, beyond our presbytery. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Mission and Outreach Chair, Liz Tinker at 416.545.0219 or liztinker@sympatico.ca.
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