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FAITHWORKS is the outreach ministry of the Diocese of Toronto. For over ten years, thousands of women, children, young people, families in crisis, homeless, imprisoned and those living in fear, have turned to a FaithWorks agency and found a welcoming hand and a sense of hope… transforming and changing lives. Visit theFaithWorks webpage here » NeighbourLink News A national ministry that networks and equips churches in Canada to work together to respond to needs in their community. The Outreach committee would like to remind everyone to please check best before dates on donated items. The Food Bank has been receiving expired items and must incur the costs of disposing them. Thank you for your generous donations.	Greenwood Community Dinners Everybody involved with the Greenwood Community Dinners is invited to a meeting and fellowship BBQ at the Russell's on Friday, September 10 beginning at 5 pm. Please bring either a salad or dessert item to share, along with your bathingsuit if you like to swim. Spouses, partners and children are welcome. If you are interested in this ministry come and join us. The Diocesan Outreach Conference Saturday, October 16 at Holy Trinity, Richmond Hill. If you would like to go please contact Deacon Barb (at barb.russell@hotmail.com, or through the church office) to arrange for registration and a ride. A letter from Archbishop Johnson Dear friends: Our Anglican family works on many fronts to help people in need, through our food banks and lunch programs, our FaithWorks ministries, and countless other efforts. Yet the needs have grown, alarmingly so. Far too many people struggle to put food on the table for their families. In fact, about 380,000 people in Ontario must rely on food banks each month. That’s why I added my support to the Put Food in the Budget campaign for a $100 per month Healthy Food Supplement for people on social assistance. Now I’ve decided to join prominent Ontarians in living on a food hamper diet for three days this Fall, as part of the “Do the Math Challenge” campaign. Other Bishops will be joining me, and I hope that many other Anglicans will also take part. We’ll be launching this event on October 4. I’m not looking forward to subsisting on a plain, barebones diet for three days. But the fact is, I can choose to do this or not. That is not the case for thousands of people across Ontario. Throughout his life and witness, Jesus Christ made abundantly clear his sense of compassion and caring for those on the margins of society. We need to follow his example today, and the Do the Math Challenge is one way that we can be, however briefly, in the situation of people who are truly on the margins of our affluent society. This is an act of solidarity with them, one that we feel will strengthen our advocacy with government. We hope to persuade government to do more to help the poorest members of our society through increases in social assistance rates. We are inviting Premier McGuinty and other MPPs to live on a food hamper diet with us. We will be following up with the government as it prepares the 2011 budget. Our effort will not involve any food being diverted from foodbanks. I will be buying my own food for the three days involved, as will other Anglican participants, and I will continue to give a portion of my income to outreach efforts as part of my own stewardship. I invite you to join me. Please consider it, and invite members of your parish to join us also. If you have any questions, please contact Murray MacAdam, our Social Justice and Advocacy Consultant, (mmacadam@toronto.anglican.ca, (416) 363-6021 ex.240) or view the information posted on our Social Justice and Advocacy webpage, www.toronto.anglican.ca/sjac. Yours faithfully, The Most Rev. Colin R. Johnson Archbishop of Toronto For more information about "Do the Math" campaign see here » Read more about this at the Anglican newspaper online here » Download a pdf of the Archbishop's letter here » FOOD SHARE FOODBANK Davis' Independent Store in Port Hope has kindly donated a shopping cart which we will use to collect food for the Fare Share Foodbank. Our normal collection Sunday is the first Sunday of each month. However, the cart will be kept in the tower entry through the rest of the month, and people can drop things off at any time. HAITI RELIEF! In order to maximize the impact of donations from parishioners, it is suggested that you make your donation to Haiti relief through either World Vision or The Primate’s World Relief & Development Fund rather than through the parish. The Canadian Government will match donations made by individual Canadians (not groups like churches or schools) made through these and other registered charities. You may choose to use a different charity. Donations to the Primate’s World Relief & Development Fund must be made directly to them and not through the parish in order to qualify for the government matching program. Thanks for your concern and generosity for those in need ! Below if information on how to make a donation online, by telephone or mail: The Primate’s World Relief & Development Fund Online: www.pwrdf.org Telephone: 1-866-308-7973 (ext. 320, Jennifer Brown) Mail: 80 Hayden St., Toronto, ON M4Y 3G2 World Vision Online: www.worldvision.ca Telephone: 1-866-595-5550 Mail: 1 World Dr., Mississauga ON, L5T 2Y4 Our outreach program focuses on a wide variety of issues both at home and abroad. These include: FARE SHARE FOOD BANK, Port Hope St John's outreach suppots the Fare Share Food Bank, with Food Bank Sunday being the first Sunday of each month. Fare Share (34 South Street) provides emergency food supplies to anyone in Northumberland County who is in need. Net info link » TREASURE TROVE Our Treasure Trove thrift shop supplies very cheap or free clothing to anyone in the community. The Treasure Trove also runs special sales each year to raise money for outreach projects such as AIDS in Africa, the ministry of Fr. John Freeman in Liberia, FaithWorks, the Benevolent Society, and others. In these hard economic times, the Treasure Trove is busier than ever. Many hands make light work and the Treasure Trove is looking for more hands. If you can spare some time for this very important ministry, please contact Bev Kelly - contact info through the parish office at 905-885-2171 or email: stjohns@stjohnschurchph.ca DIME A DAY raises money for the Keiskamma Trust - to provide medicine and medical support, education and employment in the South African communities they serve; they encourage art, music and organic gardening to provide food. More details here » NEIGHBOURLINK NORTHUMBERLAND A parish expense of $200 may not seem like much in the grand scheme of things, but together with contributions of a similar amount from 14 other churches from nine denominations in the Cobourg-Port Hope area that $200 has a significant impact among the needy of our communities. The organization that transforms the money into help is Neighbourlink Northumberland. More details here » PORT HOPE BENEVOLENT SOCIETY Locally, we provide more support to the Port Hope Benevolent Society than any other church in the area. The Benevolent Society meets the needs of those around us, primarily through food vouchers and payment of bills. YOUTH FOR CHRIST Support of the ministry of Youth For Christ: "we see the hope and potential in every young person" [website »] SPARKS & BRIGHT STARTS We provide free meeting space for Sparks and for Bright Starts, a program that helps young adults develop parenting skills. CHRISTMAS MIRACLE Our annual Christmas Miracle provides food and gifts for several local families each year. EMERGENCY NEEDS The Discretionary Fund meets emergency needs for financial assistance of various kinds. FAITHWORKS We support FaithWorks, a Toronto diocesan initiative that helps many agencies and ministries throughout Southern & Central Ontario. Each year over 200 parishes and congregations participate in the annual appeal to raise funds for 14 community ministries and 3 partner agencies providing services to those most in need across the Diocese of Toronto. A description of all the FaithWorks projects supported here » [520k download] Visit theFaithWorks webpage here » OPERATION EYESIGHT We collect eyeglasses for Operation Eyesight to distribute in the developing world. Visit the Operation Eyesight webpage here » OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD - Samaritan's Purse Canada is the Canadian arm of a nondenominational evangelical Christian organization that has been providing spiritual and physical aid to hurting people around the world since 1970. We partner with our supporters in Canada and with local organizations (usually churches) abroad to provide compassionate and cost-effective assistance to anyone who needs it, regardless of religion, race, gender or socio-economic standing. Each fall, shoe boxes are filled by members of the parish to be sent to children in the developing world. Visit the website of Operation Christmas Child here »	HAVE AN OUTREACH IDEA? If you have an idea for an outreach activity, be sure to pass it along to one of the Outreach Committee members We have a great team made up of Nancy Nichols, Mary Ellen Goucher, Pat Honey, Don Grimshaw, John LeCain, Dave Bradshaw, Keith Pickett and Dn. Barbara Russell. SUNDAY SERVICES See info for next Sunday here » LEARN LOVE SERVE St. John's Port Hope We are a Christian community dedicated to helping others know God's love in their lives through worship, learning, and caring for others.

St. John the Evangelist Anglican Church • 35 Pine Street North • Port Hope, Ontario, Canada Phone: 905-885-2171 • Fax: 905-885-7592 • stjohns@stjohnschurchph.ca • post mail to: 42 South Street, Port Hope L1A 1R8

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