Mission
St. Andrew’s church has a caring heart for the world. Our stewardship gifts to Presbyterians Sharing and Presbyterian World Service and Development help to make a difference to people across Canada and around the world by supporting missionary and development assistance. We also work locally and nationally to cultivate peace and justice. Our latest ventures include:
Refugees Need Our Support Now!
How Can We Help?
Every year, thousands of refugees are forced from their homes by human rights abuses, and flee because their lives are at risk. Most refugees will live for decades in camps as conflicts remain unresolved.
There is another way! Refugee sponsorship groups are committed people who work alongside refugees in order to support them as they integrate into life in Canada.
Learn more:
St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church has formed such a sponsorship group in conjunction with the Presbyterian Church in Canada. Presently, we are looking for partners in our Refugee Sponsorship Group to enable us to effectively carry out this mission. Contact us about Refugee Sponsorship and ways you, your congregation or service club can help.
www.presbyterian.ca/pwsd/refugee
Ubuntu Knitters
A knitting group to raise funds for the Grandmothers to Grandmothers campaign of the Stephen Lewis Foundation. We meet every Tuesday Morning in the lower hall to knit together as we prepare craft items for sale, or on consignment. Join us, beginning at 10:00 am. Bring your knitting, or share the wool, needles and patterns that have been donated.
UBUNTU Knitters Craft Sale: November 8, 2008 raised over $1,200 towards the "Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign" of the Stephen Lewis Foundation
"My message to the whole world is that the world should get up to fight HIV/AIDS and to try to get medicine for the people who are infected so that the children they are trying to bring up, the children they are fighting for now, can have at least hope in life with the availability of the drugs. I want the whole world to see now [that] this epidemic is killing the young generation, leaving their children in the hands of the grandparents, who are weak, who are helpless. So I am appealing to the world if they can also look into the problem of the grandparents; if there's a way they can come in to help them look after these children and bring these children up. That is the message I have for the whole world. People should get up to fight against this disease so that the children they are struggling for may have hope in life." --Karmela, grandmother of 28 Mbuya Uganda.