Our Faith-Our Hope

Churches can keep 40 per cent of the funds they raise in the Our Faith-Our Hope: Re-Imagine Church campaign. If they reach their parish total, ...

As of June 30, $23,479,057.03 in actual gifts has been received by the Our Faith-Our Hope: Re-Imagine Church campaign, with outstanding pledges of $12,408,128.75. These ...

As of Sept. 1, the Our Faith-Our Hope: Re-Imagine Church campaign has given a total of $2,590,858 to churches, individuals and groups for work in ...

On Father’s Day, the 11 o’clock congregation at St. Paul on-the-Hill, Pickering, sat in rapt attention as some young people from the parish talked about ...

As of June, $41 million had been pledged to the diocese’s Our Faith-Our Hope campaign, which supports parish ministry, diocesan ministries and church work in ...

The way Steve Bickley sees it, the Diocese of Toronto and its parishes have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to revitalize the church and share the good ...

Joy, relief and a sense of accomplishment filled Snell Hall at St. James Cathedral, Toronto, on Sept. 23 as bishops, clergy and lay leaders celebrated ...

Christ Church, Oshawa, plans to use its share of the Our Faith-Our Hope funds—nearly $129,000—to do a lot of little, local things really well. “It’s ...

St. Margaret in-the-Pines, West Hill, has every reason to celebrate a successful Our Faith-Our Hope campaign. The church exceeded its target of $150,000. At the ...

As of May 1, the diocese’s Our Faith-Our Hope campaign had received more than $38 million in pledges and cash. “I think we’ve passed a ...

Each Wednesday, a group of people from St. Peter, Erindale, go for a hike in a Mississauga park. The hour-long walk includes prayers, a reflection, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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. ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...