Kitchener East Presbyterian Church embraces opportunities to partner with agencies in our community and beyond to serve the pressing needs of people in difficulty or distress. Here are some of the ways we do that:
- Between Mother’s Day and Father’s Day, members fill baby bottles or donate cash to the K-W Pregnancy Resource Centre, which provides free services to anyone experiencing an unplanned pregnancy (pregnancycentre.ca).
- We have a White Gift Sunday in December to collect non-perishable food items for The Food Bank of Waterloo Region. (thefoodbank.ca).
- We operate the “Sonshine Corner”, a playgroup for toddlers and their caregivers, Thursday mornings from September to June, where both child and caregiver have opportunities for pleasant social interaction.
- We donate to Presbyterians Sharing, which is our national church fund that supports the wide-reaching mission and ministries we do together in Canada and around the world presbyterian.ca/sharing/).
- Our members donate to Presbyterian World Service and Development. “For over 65 years, PWS&D has been working with partners overseas and Canadians here at home to make positive changes in our global village. PWS&D has a wide variety of programs that work to help communities overcome poverty, recover from emergency situations and provide new futures of hope for vulnerable people” presbyterian.ca/pwsd/).
- We join with other area churches to attend annual World Day of Prayer services (www.wicc.org) . World Day of Prayer is “a global ecumenical movement of Christian women joined together to observe a common day of prayer each year on the first Friday of March.” The motto is, “Informed Prayer & Prayerful Action”, and signifies that prayer and action are inseparable. Through World Day of Prayer grants, the Women’s Inter-Church Council of Canada supports grassroots work to help women and children both in developing countries and here at home escape the cycle of poverty and violence.
- We lead a quarterly Communion Worship Service at Sunnyside Nursing Home.
- We have donated outerwear to The Working Centre. http://www.theworkingcentre.org
- We have donated personal care items to seniors in need (Christmas initiative).
- We have donated cash and gift cards to Anselma House (for women and children in crisis).