Thank you for giving wholeheartedly

The Diocese of Toronto’s annual FaithWorks campaign raised $1,551,100 in 2024 in support of Anglican-affiliated ministries throughout the Diocese and around the world.

ELIE GETS IT!

“The Lord could be that homeless guy that you see.”

Elie gets it! “I just wandered into the Church. I eventually decided to step up to the baptismal pool and be baptized because there was a story in the Bible about all those guys that had to go to the Lord’s supper. But one guy said I’m too busy … with this, too busy with that. So, I just had to step up to the baptismal pool and just go for it. And I haven’t looked back since.” Elie turns for support to St. Stephen in-the-Field’s parish on College near Kensington Market in Toronto, a FaithWorks ministry partner. “I am unable to get my own house … because there is limited funds.” “I like to pray a lot … so that the Lord can help me.” “The problems are being dealt with by the Lord.” “The Lord could be that homeless guy that you see.”

Elie gets it! We are all created in God’s image and likeness. This is the basis for the personal relationship we can each have with God. Jesus teaches us how to have a personal relationship with God. We are taught to love God with our whole being and our neighbour as ourselves. Jesus cares so much about every human being that he says, “I was hungry and you gave me food … as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to me”. (Matt. 25:35-40) He said this to teach us how to enter into the ultimate relationship with God by entering God’s kingdom.

You, our donors and supporters, get it! You know that God’s love is limitless and shared with all. You have put aside other cares and offered your time, talent and treasure to FaithWorks as a reflection of God’s love for all, especially the most fragile and vulnerable among us. You see God’s image in the people around you, even in “that homeless guy.” You have loved and shared generously, without looking back.

Thank you for your support of FaithWorks. Each and every donation makes a difference, as each and every person impacted by FaithWorks matters.

Thank you to all our donors, large or small, new or ongoing, individual, parish, corporate or foundation. Thank you to our dedicated volunteers in parishes and at the Diocese. Thank you to our ministry partners who struggle to bring well-being and security to so many.

Jesus taught us to experience our relationship with God by loving one another. Alleluia! You get it.

Thank you for giving wholeheartedly

The impact of your donation to FaithWorks was felt across the Diocese and throughout the world. The need for the services provided by FaithWorks’ ministry partners increased by 36% last year and almost 145% since 2021. This presents us with greater challenges than ever before.

In 2024, almost 49,000 people were served, including:

• 29,248 people were fed, sheltered, nurtured and befriended (up 33%)
• 16,836 refugees, new Canadians and migrant workers (up 310%)
• 9,253 Indigenous people (up 108%)
• 7,675 families in need (down 15%)
• 4,045 at-risk women, children and youth (up 37%)
• 10,464 people touched by the prison system (up 250%)
• 4,791 young adults living with mental health challenges (up 135%)
• 1,582 people impacted by HIV/AIDS (up 215%)

Thank you to our corporate and foundation donors

Thank you to our Corporate and Foundation Donors who contributed $399,800 to FaithWorks in 2024. Your generosity makes it possible to improve the lives of thousands of individuals and families.

$100,000 or more

• Anglican Diocese of Toronto Foundation

$50,000

• BMO Bank of Montreal
• Fast Family Foundation

$25,000

• New England Company

$15,000

• Anglican Foundation of Canada
• Burgundy Legacy Foundation
• Letko, Brousseau & Associates

$10,000

• Canso Investment Counsel
• Estate of Peter Sabbagh
• Hayhoe Family Foundation
• Rogers Gardham ODT

$7,500 – $9,999

• Shift Happens Coaching
• Andy & Beth Burgess Family Foundation
• Manulife Investment Management

$5,000

• Foster Hewitt Foundation
• Grant Thornton Foundation
• Koskie Minsky LLP
• NHI Nurse Homemakers International
• Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
• Smith Boake Designwerke

<$4,999

• Aqueduct Foundation
• Ray & Pat Burton Foundation
• Clairmark Consulting

Thank you to our parishes

As communities of compassion and hope, our parishes are the heart of the annual FaithWorks campaign. 89% of parishes participated in the 2024 campaign. Contributions from our parishes were $866,500. Parishes retained $101,146 for local outreach ministries. Grants to the Archdeaconries for outreach totaled $43,650.

Thank you to our ministry partners

Our FaithWorks Ministry Partners struggle tirelessly each and every day to share the transforming power of God’s love with thousands of people in need. We thank our Ministry Partners for being powerful agents of the love that is changing lives and changing the world.

• A Place Called Home, Lindsay
• Alongside Hope (PWRDF)
• Anglican United Refugee Alliance (AURA)
• Flemingdon Park Ministry, Toronto
• North House, Durham
• One City Peterborough
• Philip Aziz Centre for Hospice Care, Toronto
• Samaritan House Community Ministries, Barrie
• The Dam, Mississauga
• Toronto Urban Native Ministry
• All Saints’ Church – Community Centre, Toronto
• Holy Trinity, Trinity Square, Toronto – Community Hub
• St. James’ Cathedral, Toronto – Foot Care Clinic
• St. James, Orillia – Breakfast & Lunch program
• St. Margaret, New Toronto – Outreach program
• St. Saviour, Orono – Migrant Worker Ministry
• St. Stephen in-the-Fields, Toronto – Outreach program

For more information or to donate, visit www.faithworks.ca