Outreach - St. Nicholas, Birch Cliff

GROW WITH US!

The sale will take place at 115 Cornell Avenue

Proceeds will go to an Anglican Mission in our companion Diocese of Grahamstown, South Africa. They are building four new paediatric clinics in a community where the HIV/AIDS infection rate is 17.5% - many children are now without parents, some entire villages with no adults.

Thanks for your support of this important work. Looking forward to seeing you at my place on Saturday, May 24. Happy gardening!

If you are able to donate plants, please label each one (on a Popsicle stick or on masking tape) with the name of the flower, the colour, and source: "from the garden of _”.

Father Kevin and Diocesan Bishop Colin Johnson have volunteered plants from their own gardens. Why not build a Memory Garden, where you can be reminded where your plants came from? We are also in need of any other items related to gardening.

More details? call the parish office at 416-691-0449 or Email » - Marcia Parum

Support Outreach with a chance to win

The Outreach Committee is now selling raffle tickets to support the Keiskamma Art Project, an HIV/AIDS Treatment Centre in Grahamstown, South Africa. Rachel Johnson (Bishop Colin Johnson’s daughter) is presently working at this project. The raffle prizes are: a pair of open tickets to Soul Pepper Theatre and $50.00 for dinner; two tickets to the Roy Thomson Hall performance of Omara Portuondo; a $100.00 gift certificate to The Butcher Shop. The draw will take place at our Strawberry Tea on Sunday, June 15. See more about the tea here »

The Arts, the Economy, & St Nicholas The Parish in the process of commissioning a piece of art work produced by the women who belong to an Arts Studio in the town of Hamburg in Grahamstown, South Africa - the Diocese of Toronto's partner diocese (link »). It may possibly be several pieces - a tapistry, chausable and stole or altar frontal or a combination - details are still being worked out.

The commissioning of this artwork puts several women to work, not only sparking their creativity, but literally putting a roof over their heads and food on their tables. And they worked for it! It really helps to build self esteem for the crafters, many of whom are victims of HIV/AIDS. We became aware of the Keiskamma Trust that coordinates the Art Project and the HIV/AIDS Treatment Centre through Rachel Johnson, a nurse that manages the treatment centre and who also just happens to be the daughter of our diocesan bishop, Colin Johnson. Our first fundraiser is a raffle that will be starting soon (details TBA).