Outreach in the Community

"The Beads of Hope" Campaign

The United Church of Canada has raised $750,000.00 in it's first year to support the global fight against HIV/AIDS. The two year objective is $1,000,000.00. St. Andrew's has raised $1,000.00 by supporting and selling the "Beads of Hope" Pins.

Canadian Foodgrains Bank

A Christian Response to Hunger. Grain from the Foodgrains Bank feeds people in emergency situations and is used as payment on community development projects which work towards local self-sufficiency.

Habitat for Humanity Halton

Habitat for Humanity works in partnership with businesses, churches and community people from all walks of life, to serve those in need of decent, affordable housing by building and renovating houses so that families in our community can live and grow into all that God intended. For the past two years St. Andrew's have supported the "Get on Board" Campaign.

Halton Hills Community Support & Information

This is a registered, charitable, non-profit agency which provides different services and programs to children, youth, parents, individuals in need and seniors.

Some of these centres are:

1. The Early Years Centre
2. The Mother Goose Program
3. Toy Lending Library
4. The Parent Child Resource Library
5. The Open Door & Off the Wall Youth Centres
6. Community Support Services
   
7. Meals on Wheels
   
8. Friendly Visiting Program
   
9. Telephone Assurance Program
   
10. Home Maintenance Program
    

Halton's Womens Place

Provides shelter and crisis services for physically, emotionally, financially and sexually abused women and their dependent children and is dedicated to ending violence against women and their children. St. Andrew's has contributed to the "Holiday Hamper Program, Christmas 2002, by providing for a family of 4, one mother and 3 children. St. Andrew's raised over $500.00 to complete the Holiday Hamper for the family.

Moorelands Community Services

They provide children & youth with opportunities and experiences they would not otherwise have. Commitment to core city programs and Moorelands Camping Facility. St. Andrew's has supported "Send a Kid to Camp" Program for several years.

Operation Christmas Child (Sumaritan's Purses)

Non-profit Christian relief and evangelism organization which reaches out to needy children in desperate situations around the world. 2001 saw more than four million children in over 75 countries around the world receive shoe boxes packed with toys, school supplies, hygiene products, treats, books and clothing. For several years St. Andrew's collected shoe boxes and sent over fifty boxes to Operation Christmas Child.

Project Ploughshare

Their mission is rooted in the faith commitment to seek peace and to pursue it, to carry out research, analysis, dialogue and public education on peace and security issues to advance our understanding and knowledge of the roots and causes of armed conflict and the measures and policies that are conducive to achieving a more peaceful world.

Pueblito

A non-profit organization that helps children & communities in Latin-America. They provide child care, education & health by helping communities become stable and self-sufficient. Provide children with a safer more secure environment.

Sleeping Children Around the World

This organization provides "bedkits" to children all over the world. In 2003 St. Andrew's M & O Committee approached the congregation to support "Sleeping Children Around the World as our Christmas Outreach Program. St. Andrew's raised $1,260.00 which purchased forty-two (42) bedkits.

Transitional Housing

"TRANSITIONAL HOUSING" in Halton Hills required a helping hand to raise much needed funds in 2003 to sustain two units in Halton Hills. The M&O Committee challenged the congregation at St. Andrew's to raise $2,000.00 during Lent. St. Andrew's church family raised $2,530.00 for Transitional Housing.

Yonge Street Mission

Yoonge Street Mission is a non-profit, interdenominational Christian organization founded in 1896, is called to bring God" peace, dignity and justice to the poor and needy in downtown Toronto, Ontario Canada.

• meeting basic human needs
• advocating on behalf of those who lack the resources to speak for themselves
• encouraging people to develop their full potential

St. Andrew's has supported the Yonge Street Mission for a number of years and most recently supported "Evergreen" Centre for Youth at the Yonge Street Mission through financial support and personal care items for the youth using the centre.