The promo resources for care+share recipients 2016 and 2017 have been approved and will be going off to print.
Members of the 116th Synod of the Diocese of New Westminster voted on May 22nd, 2015 to grant 2016-2018 care+share funding to:
- The St. Paul's Advocacy Office and Homeless Outreach Program The Advocacy Office at St Paul’s provides support to individuals in the community through information, advice, guidance and encouragement and to advocate for individuals in regard to their rights to access government and other services. The Homeless Outreach Program extends the work of the Advocacy Office directly onto the street with the numerous homeless in our community. The primary goal of the Outreach Program is to accompany people who are currently homeless through the process and transition to housing and beyond.
- The Community Support Ministry Collaboration Project: Hudson Street Hub & Kerrisdale/Marpole Community Pastoral Resource Centre (St. Augustine & St. Faith) The Community Support Ministry Collaboration is an effort to bring together the work of the Community Pastoral Resource Centre at St. Faith and the work of the Hudson Street Hub at St. Augustine which both work in partnership with numerous community groups to provide services and goods to vulnerable people on the west side and in the south of Vancouver. The Pastoral Resource Centre focuses primarily on advocacy and warm referrals to the appropriate resources for housing, food, community health and well-being. The Hudson Street Hub offers low cost clothing and goods, hosts a Food Bank depot, offers three community meals a week, hosts recreation/socialization programs, and provides workshops and clinics related to the daily needs of people in need.
“By bearing witness to each person’s story, holding them in prayer and seeking to support them, we are committed to sharing God’s love and hope with the most vulnerable members of our community; to uphold them as they seek to live with the dignity that is the right of every human being.”
As part of the mission and ministry of the diocese of New Westminster our shared diocesan outreach program care+share was established following a resolution at Synod 2011. The ministries included in care+share have submitted proposals to the Mission and Ministry Development Committee (MMD, and once their proposals have been approved by that body a resolution is presented to Synod and Synod votes on whether or not to accept the recommended ministries as care+share recipients for a two year period.
Ministries included in care+share do not receive “funding”, instead they receive voluntary contributions made by parishes and individual Anglicans, sent to the diocesan office which forwards funds several times a year to the care+share ministry groups.
Donations given by individuals and parishes to care+share go 100 per cent to the groups we support. The overhead for fundraising and administration for care+share is included in the regular diocesan budget, and not taken from donations.
Donations may be directed to both ministries or to either individually in any combination or amount. You may give to care+share via your parish stewardship program or as an individual. Together we as a diocese decide which ministries to support with voluntary dollars so please prayerfully consider your support of care+share and give generously.
You can give online here on the website (GIVE button above) using a credit card.
Posters and brochures will be printed and distributed from the Synod Office to diocesan parishes and related groups. They will be available at the Mission Conference 2016. Downloadable pdfs of the brochure and the poster (both for web and for print) are attached below.
For more information about the care+share program contact the Director for Mission and Ministry Development, the Reverend Ruth Monette, 604.684.6306 ext 219