Parish News

Brent Whitby, Jacek Swierzbinski, Kris Ciesek and Gary Davenport cut the ribbon to open the new accessible entrance at St. Barnabas, Chester on Jan. 28. ...

Holy Family, Heart Lake, Brampton kicked off its Black History Month celebrations at a service on Feb. 4. Bishop Peter Fenty (suffragan bishop, retired) was ...

What does regional ministry in our diocese look like? Well, on New Year’s Day, it looked like three churches on a bus. The three parishes ...

When I heard that our church would be having a live nativity on Christmas Eve, I just assumed – incorrectly, as it turned out – ...

In November, Penny Nutbrown of St. John the Evangelist, Port Hope, posted a photo on the church’s Facebook page of three angels in the parish’s ...

St. Paul on-the-Hill, Pickering and St. Martin, Bay Ridges (Pickering) host the Caribbean Cultural Event in Pickering on Sept. 23. More than 250 guests enjoyed ...

Marking its 100-year journey from a Scarborough community church to a multicultural parish, the church of St. Bede launched a year of centenary celebrations. The ...

St. Paul, Lindsay officially opened its new free food cupboard called “St. Paul’s Pantry” in August. Parishioners stocked the pantry and then it was blessed ...

Now in its 35th year, the St. Thomas Poetry Series will host a reading on Nov. 18 at 7:30 p.m. at St. Thomas, 383 Huron ...

The Parish of Minden, Kinmount and Maple Lake holds its annual garden tea party on Aug. 13.  The tea party is held to connect the ...

When its Pride flag was cut down and vandalized in early August, St. Paul, Uxbridge decided to speak out. Rather than stay silent about the ...

There’s a new food cupboard in Caledon East. “Take what you need, leave what you can” is the motto for the new initiative of St. ...

In July, St. James Cathedral received its new organ console from Létourneau Organs after two years of detailed planning, carving and sophisticated electrical and computer ...

St. James, Caledon East welcomed Archbishop Linda Nicholls, Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, at a special Sunday morning service on June 4 to ...

On the morning of June 25, members from Trinity, Barrie, St. Margaret, Barrie and the Good Shepherd in Stayner gathered for an outdoor service and ...

Volunteers and migrant workers have a meal and worship together at St. Saviour, Orono in June – the first time in three years, due to ...

St. Paul, Lindsay hosted “Mapping the Ground We Stand On,” facilitated by Cheryl Marek of the PWRDF, on June 24. The church welcomed about 20 ...

St. David Anglican-Lutheran Church, Orillia remains intent on sharing love to its community, one veggie or book at a time. The congregation gathered on June ...

Saturday, June 10 was a beautiful, sunny day for clergy, parishioners and the community to get to know people from other parishes and the buildings ...

For the first three Sundays in June, Christ Church, Campbellford held its first, and hopefully not last, art silent auction. The Anglican Church Women had ...

The main street in Port Perry was abuzz early on June 10 as many gathered to walk together in the first Pride march, organized by ...

Members of St. James Cathedral prepare and serve food at the cathedral’s annual Canada Day barbecue for the neighbourhood on July 1. The barbecue was ...

The Rev. Arthur Boers, an honorary assistant at St. Paul L’Amoreaux in Toronto, has written a memoir about coming of age in a Dutch immigrant ...

St. James, Caledon East is part of the territory of the Anishinabek, Huron-Wendat, Haudenosaunee and Ojibway/Chippewa peoples, and the land of the Metis. The land ...

The Church, cricket and Canada. Can you think of a connection there? You may not know this, but one of the earliest references to cricket ...

David Kent, publisher of The St. Thomas Poetry Series, cuts the cake to celebrate 35 years of poetry readings at St. Thomas, Huron Street, on ...

The Diocesan ACW’s Ecclesiastical Needleworkers recently received many items from a local church that recently closed. The items include beautiful frontals/super frontals with all the ...