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Outreach at St. Anne's

St. Anne’s Volunteer T-Shirts
Would you like to have a St Anne’s T-shirt for when you volunteer at one of our outreach events or a fundraising events? Here is your opportunity. We have designed a T-shirt with our logo and tag line and each shirt ordered is $15. Please email Cathy B-S at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and we will place a group order. Please specify the quantity and size you are requesting.

Outreach Projects Group
An Outreach Projects Fund was established at our 2021 Vestry meeting to provide up to $7,000/year for outreach submissions.

2023 allocations
Greenhouse – Special Projects: $500
Snacks to Northview School: $600
Buddy Bench for Northview: $750
Halls Mills House: $1,000
Snacks for Parents at El Sistema Drumming Evenings: $500
Camp Huron: $500
Maggie’s Run: $1,000
Connecting to Indwell Residence: $500

2022 allocations
1. Healthy Snacks to Northview - $400
2. Sending Children to Huron Church Camp - $500
3. Engaging in social activities with three gentlemen and their staff who live on Halls Mill Road, a home which houses three medically fragile adult individuals operated by Participation House.- $500
4. Ongoing support of the greenhouse and providing food for the Byron Cares Foodbank. Also, adding two 4'x3' elevated garden beds to the area behind the hall to both expand production capacity and encourage participation from people who may have mobility challenges. - $1000.

The Huron Hispanic & Migrant Farmworkers Outreach Ministry - February 2022 letter

The Huron Hispanic & Migrant Farmworkers Outreach Ministry is a new initiative in the diocese of Huron commencing in spring 2022. The first phase of this outreach ministry will begin in Norfolk County. We are seeking donations of men’s clothing such as pants, sweaters, T-Shirts, warm jackets, socks, gloves and toques. Items should be in the small to large size category, clean and in good condition. The collection place in London is the Parish of St. Michael & all Angels Church, 397 Springbank Drive, London,

All donations would be appreciated by March 28th.

Past efforts

2020 and 2021 were challenging years for outreach givenhow COVID-19 closed churches. In 2021 we were able to provide backpacks and other supplies to the Byron Northview Public School along with Advent gifts of warm socks, mitts, hats scarves, etc.Nutritional snacks have also been provided for children arriving at school without a meal.

We continue to develop our conection to a Syrian family new to Canada in 2020 and as they welcomed a daughter in 2021.

St. Anne's supports the Byron Cares food bank and a $500 donation was made thanks to the Christmas Star initiative in December. We also tried our hand at growing food for Byron Cares in a small greenhouse provided to us through the London Food Bank and Business Cares London.

In 2019 we continued to gather gifts of backpacks and supplies in September and warm hats, socks, mitts etc during Advent for Christmas distribution at the local school. We also participated again in the creation of a number of Shoeboxes for women living in shelters here in London with several teams of parishioners also serving meals at Inn Out of the Cold in St Thomas. At the encouragement of the ACW financial gifts were made to Merrymount ($1000) and El Sistema South London ($1000). The Hostess group raised funds so that we could contribute to the work of Life Spin ($500) and Inn Out of the Cold ($300), as well as collecting egg cartons for the Daily Bread at St Paul’s. A further gift was made to Inn Out of the Cold ($200) to further their work.

Combined with funds raised by the children of the parish at the Spring Sale and the Bazaar, we were able to make a $350 gift to the PWRDF purchasing, one cow, a goat, seeds for farmers, and 40 chickens for distribution to those living in Africa in very difficult circumstances. These gifts will change their lives. In addition to this, after a number of years, we were able to send $4,050 to the PWRDF towards a Cuban Water project.

In addition to this, items not sold from the Spring sale were donated to Mission Services for families in need. As well books were donated to CPRI for their fundraisers. The Library raised funds to send cards to those at Parkwood and support their programs (see Library report for more details about this) with a certain percentage of the funds raised by the sidespeople’s Pancake Dinner also going to Outreach.

Our heavenly pie ladies (and some gentlemen, numbering 20 or so) not only made pies to support the church, but also hosted the two Seniors’ Luncheons that took place each year, as well as making pies available from time to time for pastoral support, and inviting some of our young friends from Northview over to learn the fine art of pie-making.

The ladies of the prayer shawl ministry kept knitting, creating shawls that would surround the recipients with love and prayers; and Laurie H. continued to organize and send the Bales north to Indigenous communities twice a year. Collections were made for St Monica’s house and blankets were crafted for the London Children’s Hospital Trauma Unit.

We made space for the VON to hold their twice-weekly exercises for seniors as well as providing a room for an ALANON group’s weekly meetings. We also hosted two separate Tuesday evening groups for Ability Through Drumming classes. The badminton group also continued to meet regularly in our Parish Hall.

In 2019, we hosted a Blanket Exercise and were pleased to have 29 people join us for this event. Our Social Justice page has more information on our parish's acknowledgement of Indigenous matters.

Also, 14 members of the congregation attended a public rally in July to learn more about what can be done to decrease human trafficking. It was both informational and inspiring.

We were pleased in 2019 to have raised $4,050 in support of Water Filtration systems in Cuba, as initiated by our deacon Ken B. As well through supporting a visit to our pollination garden, we did provide students at our local public school with opportunities to learn more about the pollination garden and how it helps to safeguard the integrity of creation.

We were able to connect to our local school and to provide for them a gift in the amount of $500 towards the purchase of equipment to support children’s learning about sustaining the earth.

We were able to invite students to our pollination garden to share with them how these kind of gardens support butterflies and bees in their pollinating efforts. There are additional funds left for the beautification of the gardens.

PWRDF is an important outreach arm of the Diocese of Huron www.pwrdf.org

St. Paul's Daily Bread Program, a registered charity, is an ecumenical social service provider supported by over 50 London and area churches of various denominations, a number of service and fraternal organizations and hundreds of caring individuals on a regular ongoing basis. The Daily Bread Program is available to anyone need in the community who is in need and is one of the few agencies in London that offers emergency financial assistance in crisis situations pertaining to shelter and/or utilities cut off as funds permit.

Anglican Church Women (ACW) - The Bale
St. Anne's gathers donations of suitable, gently used washable clothing, sheets and towels and toiletries and sends them to the northern Diocese of Keewatin for the many individuals, families, communities and programs (safe shelters, rehab, and hospital) who rely on several agencies for support. The Diocese of Keewatin includes 45 parishes in the central region of Canada straddling the border of the provinces of Manitoba and Ontario and comprising over 900,000 sq kilometres.

Anglican Church Women (ACW)

Some Easter Reflections
The resurrection of Jesus changes the face of death for all His people. Death is no longer a prison, but a passage into God’s presence. Easter says you can put truth in a grave, but it won’t stay there.
-Clarence W. Hall
Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.
-Martin Luther
Sometimes Prayers don't change situations, but they change our attitude towards situations and give us hope which changes our entire life
-Anonymous
Lord, let me be a mirror made clean and bright by your forgiveness, and held up by your glory, that I may reflect your life and love to those for whom I pray.
-Archbishop George Appleton


History of the Anglican Church Women (A.C.W.)

Roberta Elizabeth Tilton is the founder of the Women's Auxiliary of the Canadian Church. She was born in Maine and was raised as a Unitarian.( not a cradle Anglican) She married a New Brunswicker named John Tilton and several years later became a Anglican. In 1868 they moved to Ottawa and joined St. John's parish. "In 1885 Mrs. Tilton developed the idea of a national organization for Anglican women in support of the Board of Foreign and Domestic Missions. With six other women she presented her proposal to the bishops of the Canadian Church and with their approval launched the Women's Auxiliary. Within 23 years the organization prospered and there were diocesan and parochial branches right across Canada."
(Taken from the 'Diocese of Huron, Our History pg.5’)

1900 (June) St. Anne's Women's Auxiliary was organized to support missionary work abroad. Activities included sewing, quilting, and sending bales.

1922  The Guild was formed to support church needs. Duties involved arranging flowers on the altar for special occasion, (later every Sunday), having afternoon teas, bake sales, welcoming new babies with gifts, remembering the sick with food or flowers, and raising money which was much needed.

1925  A junior part of the Women Auxiliary was formed. It included a Junior Auxiliary (girls 6-10), and the Girls Auxiliary (11-18). Mrs Ormand and Mrs. Seabrook were some the founding leaders. The groups met at homes or the west wing of the church. The girls wore uniforms and had badges. It disbanded in the late 1960's.

1950 An evening guild was formed by a group of young mothers. They started the nearly new sales which still run today.

l97l The three groups, the Women Auxiliary, the Guild, and the . Evening Guild, amalgamated to form the Women of St. Anne's.* Special interest groups were formed, namely the Chancel, Family Life, Spiritual renewal, After Service Group, Choir Mothers, and Kitchen Catering.

1974 During the late 1960's, the Women's Auxiliary, who initially formed to support Missionary endeavours had broaden to include other areas of church work including parish and community responsibility. As a result the name Anglican Church Women was chosen, or (A.C.W.).  Many interest groups continued and others were formed:

Bible Study Group, Bridge Club, Chancel Group, Crafter's Group, Flower Fund, Membership, Nursery, Parish Hostess (formerly Kitchen Catering), Social Service Group, and Quilter's Group.

*Note. St. Anne's Vestry approved the use of the name A.C.W. in 1971, but St. Anne's Ladies continued to use the amalgamated name of the 'Women of St. Anne's' until 1974.

The patron saint of the W.A./A.C.W. is St. Andrew. Andrew was a fisherman. "In John's Gospel, Andrew is paired with Philip in answering Jesus' questions at the feeding of the five thousand and later in acting as a intermediary for some foreigners who wished to meet Jesus. These acts made Andrew the first home missionary and first foreign missionary. The missionary effort of the church was the central purpose of the W.A. from its inception." (Taken from Diocese of Huron, Our History) In the Diocese of Huron, the W.A./A.C.W. acknowledges Andrew as its patron saint by using the symbol of the fish, also a symbol of Christ, to represent itself.