Parish News

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Grant seeds pollinator-friendly garden

In the spring of 2019, Church of the Resurrection, Toronto was awarded a city PollinateTO grant. The church’s garden team was excited to have the ...
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Former Toronto mayor shares ideas on climate action

David Miller, Toronto’s former mayor and author of Solved: How the World’s Great Cities Are Fixing the Climate Crisis, discussed the themes of his book ...
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Church marks 110 years of mission, ministry in Agincourt

On a beautiful sunny day in June – the first day of summer – St. Timothy, Agincourt held an uplifting service to celebrate 110 years ...
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Church helps seniors with vaccinations

Hundreds of seniors in Markham are signed up to receive their anti-coronavirus vaccinations, thanks to a ground-breaking initiative at Grace Church, Markham. In early March, ...
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Church honours workers on front lines

The Church of the Nativity, Malvern held a service in March to honour parishioners who are essential and frontline workers. The service, which was held ...
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Pandemic provides opportunity for renewal

For a couple of decades, the metal roof of St. James, Caledon East (built in 1901) had been a source of embarrassment. It was not ...
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Church helps front-line workers

For the past 30 years, St. Dunstan of Canterbury’s Pastoral Care Group has been donating hand-made gifts to patients in Centenary Hospital in Scarborough and, ...
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St. Augustine’s celebrates anniversary

Before condo towers dotted the skyline in midtown Toronto, there was a church on a hill. Some say its bell tower marked the highest point ...
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Church holds online teas for seniors

If this pandemic has taught us nothing else, it is how to do traditional events in a new way. St. Peter, Erindale has a longstanding ...
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Garden showers us with blessings

With spring on the horizon, Cathy Pearson reflects on the joy that the garden at St. Stephen, Maple has brought to parishioners and members of ...
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Parish News Roundup

Prayer shawls share Christ’s love In 2008, Maureen Chandler founded the prayer shawl ministry at St. George, Haliburton, modelled after a prayer shawl ministry in ...
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‘Elves’ spread Christmas cheer

COVID-shmovid! It would take a whole lot more than a pandemic to dampen the 2020 Christmas spirit at the St. Stephen’s church plant in Maple, ...
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New window lets light in

Amidst the gloom of COVID-19, Grace Church on-the-Hill in Toronto has found a beautiful way to let the light in. On Sept. 27, the church ...
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Cottager swims laps for church

Anglicans in the diocese raised money in lots of different ways this past summer despite COVID-19, but Grace Olds’s efforts were probably the most unusual. ...
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Priest offers prayers, blessings in parking lot

For the Rev. Richard Webb, interim priest-in-charge at the Church of the Incarnation in Toronto, physical connection is integral to the life of the Church. ...
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Unique masks catch on

In April, as the COVID-19 pandemic was emerging across Canada, staff at the Common Table, an urban farm project run by Flemingdon Park Ministry in ...
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Church’s first Repair Café gets the job done

On Feb. 22, St. John the Evangelist, Port Hope co-sponsored its first Repair Café with Port Hope for Future (PH4F), a local environmental group. Hundreds ...
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‘Nones’ explore spirituality in pilot project

In the summer of 2019, the Rev. Dr. Jason McKinney and a local community partner piloted a project that sought to bring people together to ...
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Poverty maze builds empathy, dispels myths

The newly formed Uxbridge Poverty Coalition hosted a “Poverty Maze” last November to raise awareness of the realities of life below the poverty line in ...
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Cricket festival in June

The Anglican Church Cricket Festival Committee is pleased to report that planning for this year’s festival is well underway and the event is scheduled for ...
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Church hosts town’s first Repair Café

St. John the Evangelist, Port Hope is hosting the town’s first Repair Café on Feb. 22. The church is organizing the event along with Port ...

Church plans to take Jesus outside

Light On The Hill, Oak Ridges (also known as St. John the Baptist, Oak Ridges) plans to make Jesus known to the surrounding community during ...
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Celebrating Chinese New Year

About 100 people, many from the surrounding community, attended the Chinese New Year celebration at St. Philip on the Hill, Unionville on Jan. 26. The ...
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Grafton church wraps up anniversary year

St. George, Grafton ended its year-long 175th anniversary celebrations with a service attended by Bishop Riscylla Shaw, the area bishop of Trent-Durham. It has been ...
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Those who helped Japanese Canadians thanked at event

A group gathered at Holy Trinity, Trinity Square on Oct. 5 to celebrate and give thanks to a community for its incredible support for seeking ...
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Church brings third refugee family to Canada

Shortly after arriving in Toronto, a refugee family from Iraq had a picnic on Toronto Islands. As they were waiting to take the ferry back ...
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Community garden takes root

This summer and fall saw the first harvest of vegetables from St. Luke’s Community Gardens in Peterborough. The crop included tomatoes, cabbages, peppers, potatoes, carrots, ...
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