Outreach
These groups to support charities on a local, regional and international basis:
- Outreach Interest Group
- Days for Girls
- Darlingford Food Grains Banks Project
Outreach Interest Group
In 2018, the Outreach Interest Group supports groups locally, regionally and internationally in the following ways:
Soup and Dessert lunches & Christmas Cookie Walk
The Outreach committee leads a team which serves Soup and Dessert lunches on the third Friday of the month from September to April. In December, there is a Cookie Walk and on Shrove Wednesday. a Pancake Supper, with the help of the Sunday School, is hosted. In 2018, there was also a Mother's Day Lunch.
The Outreach Group was assisted by the Thornhill UCW who organized the January Soup and Desert, the Sunday School who assisted with the a Soup & Sandwich was well as the Pancake Supper and the many volunteers who provided soup, pie, breads and cookies; came and enjoyed meals and bought cookies. If you would like to help by making soup, set up and/or serving and/or cleanup, please contact the church office.
In 2018, the Group dispersed 5065.56 as shown below:
- Local - Monthly Soup and Dessert lunches & Christmas Cookie Walk support local charities
- Regionally - Supports the St Matthews Maryland Christmas Store in Winnipeg
- Internationally - Raises money for the United Church of Canada Mission and Service fund
Soup and Dessert lunches & Christmas Cookie Walk
The Outreach committee leads a team which serves Soup and Dessert lunches on the third Friday of the month from September to April. In December, there is a Cookie Walk and on Shrove Wednesday. a Pancake Supper, with the help of the Sunday School, is hosted. In 2018, there was also a Mother's Day Lunch.
The Outreach Group was assisted by the Thornhill UCW who organized the January Soup and Desert, the Sunday School who assisted with the a Soup & Sandwich was well as the Pancake Supper and the many volunteers who provided soup, pie, breads and cookies; came and enjoyed meals and bought cookies. If you would like to help by making soup, set up and/or serving and/or cleanup, please contact the church office.
In 2018, the Group dispersed 5065.56 as shown below:
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St. Matthews Maryland Christmas Store
Each December the Community Ministry at St. Matthews Maryland is transformed into Santa’s Workshop, filled with toys and other gifts for neighbourhood children, and, gifts that children can give to their caregivers. In many Christmas Hamper programs, parents do not get a choice about the gift that their children receive. At the Christmas Store, they set up a store, displaying toys, clothing and other items so that people can pick the gift that they see as best suited to their children. Another space is set up for children to browse and pick a gift for their caregivers. Santa’s helpers wrap and tag the gifts. For more information, see St Mathews Maryland Low-Cost Christmas Store
Working with the Sunday School, the Committee ensures that donations made during White Gift Sunday at Pembina Parish are are delivered to Santa`s Workshop.
Mission & Service (M&S)
The work of The United Church of Canada across the country and around the world is funded by the Mission and Service (M&S) Fund. Members and supporters of the United Church know that it takes money to put their faith into action. In the M&S Fund they combine their gifts so that the work of the church can be done effectively. For more information, see M&S As a Glance
The Outreach Committee has donated the proceeds from the Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper to the M&S fund.
Days for GirlsSewers from Pembina Parish, St John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church, Christ Lutheran Church, Westside and other congregations gather regularly as part of an international organization, Days For Girls to create feminine hygiene solutions for girls and women worldwide. The product provides girls and women worldwide with more dignity, health and safety through access to quality sustainable menstrual health management and education. For more information, see Days for Girls or look for the Winnipeg chapter on Facebook.
Donations of time and monies are always appreciated.
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Darlingford Foodgrains Bank Project
Three generations picking stones on the Food
Grains Field, Glen Holenski, his son Derek and
granddaughter Kenadee. Derek was one of the
original Zion Calvin Sunday School kids that picked
stones the first year of the Darlingford Project, over 20 years ago
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New generations celebrating the beginning of a new era of the Darlingford Foodgrains Bank Project
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In 2019, the Darlingford Foodgrains Bank Project was able to continue when some of the farmers that had helped with the project over the years decided to rotate between a few farms year to year. This year the field is on land owned by Glen and Shannon Holenski. Forty acres of Wheat was seeded on May 8. |
Jim Wilson, Ruth Nichol and daughter Kate Tickner
The 30th Darlingford Foodgrains Bank Project was harvested on August 24, 2018. The 45 acres of wheat, with Hail Insurance raised over $21,000 for the Foodgrains Bank, an organizations which provides A Christian Response to Hunger.
2018 was the end of an era, with Ruth Nichol selling the land that she had donated to the Canadian Food Grains Project for 20 years.
For more information, please see Canadian Foodgrains Bank
