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Outreach & Mission
"Sharing and showing love through Outreach,
we can reveal to others the hope that we have in Jesus Christ."
The Church of the Ascension is committed to Outreach to people in our local community through:
  • Operation Scugog Food Bank - (Co-operation Christmas Hampers), seasonal food drives and clothing collections
  • The Hospital Chaplaincy at Lakeridge Health, Port Perry
  • Support and sponsor the Scouts Canada of Port Perry
  • Scugog COPE Program
Beyond our Church doors, regionally, we support:
  • The clothing drive for Out of the Cold (Toronto), partnership with the local High school students
  • St. Vincent's Kitchen, Oshawa
  • Downtown Church Workers
On an international level:
  • We have been committed to supporting PWRDF - Primates World Relief and Development Fund - through the Anglican Church umbrella
  • Bricks for Niger - financial giving for the building of a Church in Niger
  • Hunger to Hope - under the World Vision umbrella
  • Medical Ministry International - supports short term medical relief in the 3rd World

PUT YOUR FAITH IN ACTION! Reach out to those less fortunate than yourself. Get active! Are you interested in volunteering at St. Vincent 's Kitchen, a soup kitchen in downtown Oshawa ? They are desperately in need of help preparing meals, setting up the dining room, serving meals to those in need and cleaning up after approx. 200 meals are served. If you would like to help out with some part of this on an occasional basis.

ST.VINCENT’S KITCHEN
The next opportunity is MAY 3
Anyone willing to volunteer is asked to call
Mary Anne Pring or the church office

Do you sponsor a child through I.N. Network? If you are willing to lend the Mission and Outreach team any letters you have received from your sponsored child, we would appreciate it. We would like to create a collage of letters for the upcoming silent Auction and concert. All letters will be returned.

Please drop them in the Stiller's mail file folder at the church entrance. Please mark your name clearly on the letter, if it is not already there.
Thanks!

“Jesus, like any good fisherman, first catches the fish; then He cleans them.” - Peter Potter

OUTREACH & MISSION UPDATE

Part of Ascension's Outreach and Mission helps support the ministry of Kara and Nelson Mejia in Honduras . A group from the Ascension completed a mission trip there, helping to build a church.    Here is news from Nelson and Kara: They are settling in well with a new baby and Kara is already back to work. The parish is slowly growing. In three weeks they will both be ordained. Please continue to pray for this couple as they work to share Christ's love with the poorest of the poor in Honduras .  (to read more about the Mission Trip to Honduras click here)

Ascension also helps support the work of Julia Cornish serving with Africa Inland Mission.
Julia Cornish is the Director of Relief and Development at AIM Headquarters in Toronto . In February she had the privilege of visiting many of the ongoing, and some of the potential new project sites in Africa , in which AIM is involved. Pray for her as she seeks God’s will and direction as to which projects AIM Canada should be involved in. Pray also that the Lord would guide her every step as she writes the proposals necessary to request funding for these projects. (from AIM's website)

 

 

 


Last updated 04-03-08