Outreach Committee
St. David’s takes great delight in being able to offer our resources to projects that are making a real and living difference in communities both here and around the world. This committee meets on the first Wednesday of every month, 10am, to seek to partner the concerns and needs of a wide variety of mission projects with the gifts that we have at our disposal, to empower our congregation with knowledge about these needs and practical ways in which they can be involved in helping, and to tell the stories of hope and transformation that are very much abounding through these efforts. More...
Kitchen Krew
Our Kitchen Krew is a healthy mix of younger and more seasoned members, and we find friendship and fulfillment in planning and enacting a wide variety of fundraising and fellowship-building events, all revolving around our common joy and delight in the act of sharing a meal. Through our considerable culinary gifts, we are able not only to bring people together through delicious food, we are also able to raise funds that can then translate into further outreach efforts and support of the ministry of our church. More...
Lay Anointers
Jesus taught his disciples to be people who brought healing to those who were bound or broken by physical illness. At St. David’s, we believe that God’s healing is real, powerful, and at work in the world. We also believe that God’s healing takes many different forms. Our lay anointers have received special training and participate in this ministry of listening, visiting, praying and anointing, that through our care for one another and our asking for God to be present to us, God’s healing can be received in the form it is needed.
Prayer
Prayer connects us to one another, it reminds us that we are not powerless, that in the face of all that is broken in our world and in our individual lives, there is something concrete and meaningful that we can offer in response. Prayer centres us on the reality that God’s goodness and generosity are at the heart of our lives and that there is no concern, no thanksgiving, too small or too large to lay before God.
a) Prayer Chain
This group forms a prayer network, a web of people ready, whenever requested, to add the prayer of any individual in need to our own prayers, holding before God, as a community, needs and concerns of an immediate nature.
b) Prayer Connection
This group meets once every other week, offering before God the concerns and needs and thanksgivings of those who have been brought to our attention in group prayer.
Pastoral Visitors
We know that ministry to the sick is work which we share. Pastoral visitors have received training, particularly in the often-neglected art of listening. Pastoral visitors share with our ordained staff in making sure that those who are sick or shut-in in our community are continually connected to our community through regular visits, phone conversations, and the offering of home communion.
Faithworks & Canadian Lutheran World Relief
St. David’s is not ‘church’ on its own. We are connected to Christians all over the world, particularly through our Anglican and Lutheran identities. These global structures allow us to connect our resources to the world’s need in an immediate, efficient and personal way. On our Anglican side, we support the organization Faithworks, which is an umbrella of outreach ministry in the diocese of Toronto, a fund which supports numerous local service ministries, as well as several more global service ministries. On our Lutheran side, we support the Canadian Lutheran World Relief, which offers resources and development tools to places around our world besieged by war, famine, drought, or natural disasters.
The Van
Working with the Salvation Army church in town, St. David’s participates in making food, collecting blankets, coats, and hygiene products, and then going out in The Van in order to get these basic items of nourishment and warmth to those who are homeless or who are working poor in our city. We are always looking for more people to be involved in the numerous facets of this important community ministry.
Miscellaneous
Most of the people in our congregation are doing ministry of one sort or another, even if it is not formally connected with the church. Whether volunteering at the hospital, teaching a child to read, serving on community boards, participating in local art and music, taking a homeless person out to lunch on occasion, or making a point of taking a casserole to someone in crisis, there are any number of ways that we at St. David’s strive to be people in mission for others.
