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Campaign payment lets light in

St. Martin, Bay Ridges, in Pickering has used its first payment from the Our Faith-Our Hope campaign to install glass doors and an awning, making ...
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Church raises more than $1 million

Grace Church on-the-Hill, Toronto, has raised the most money so far of any parish in the diocese during the Our Faith-Our Hope campaign. As of ...
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Success brings ‘happy dance’

With a month and a half left to go before the end of the Our Faith- Our Hope campaign at St. Margaret, Barrie, the Rev. ...
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After building new church, generosity continues to flow

It would be easy to suppose that once a parish has built itself a new church, its financial resources would be exhausted for some considerable ...
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Enthusiasm carries parish past goal

Sometimes all you need to run a good fundraising campaign is a strong boost of positive energy. At least, that is the experience of St. ...
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After initial reluctance, campaign takes off

Sometimes when a congregation has given and given, both of their money and themselves, it becomes a real challenge to ask them to do more. ...
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Laity leads church to goal

The fact that they were between incumbents did not hamper the parishioners of Epiphany and St. Mark, Parkdale, as they tried to reach their target ...
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Campaign gamble pays off

It was the beginning of August, and for the Our Faith-Our Hope team at St. Mark, Midland, it did not look encouraging. The target of ...
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Wandering parish closer to permanent home

For a small congregation, San Lorenzo Ruiz has a big ambition: to have its own geographic parish. For the past 19 years, about 80 worshippers ...
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Church reaches target — twice

When the Chinese congregation of St. John, Toronto, was assigned its Our Faith-Our Hope campaign goal of $220,000, it hoped to meet the target. What ...
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Snowbirds boost givings to campaign

The congregation at All Saints, King City, really didn’t think it could achieve its $240,000 fundraising goal in the Our Faith- Our Hope: Re-Imagine Church ...
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For experienced fundraiser, visiting parishioners is key

Otto Peter, a parishioner at Christ Church Memorial in Oshawa, is an experienced church fundraiser. In the 1980s, he worked on both the national church’s ...
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Pickering church soars past goal

St. Martin, Bay Ridges, in Pickering is named after the saint who was renowned for giving, and the present day congregation has certainly lived up ...
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Major gift boosts campaign

In a conversation with Blake Goldring, it quickly becomes apparent that one of his passions is the Canadian military, in particular supporting the troops and ...
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Church roars past goal

It didn’t take long for the Rev. Canon Stephen Fields to realize that the diocese’s fundraising campaign, Our Faith-Our Hope: Re-Imagine Church, was going to ...
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Diocese to relaunch campaign

The diocese is set to relaunch its $65-million fundraising campaign. The campaign has been on hold for the past year because of the slumping economy, ...