Missions
The Missions team coordinates the support of missions in Canada and beyond. Included in this is the work of Alan and Natalie Self, Campus for Christ, working on the campuses of the University of Waterloo and Laurier University. Locally, financial and hands-on support by our Youth Group, is being provided to Evangel Hall, an outreach to the homeless in downtown Toronto.
Outside Canada, we offer financial help to the Christian Blind Mission International ministry and to the Christian Salvage Mission, an organization that works to distribute Christian literature in the developing world. In 2009 we sponsored one of our young people, Natalie Campbell, on a mission trip to Jamaica.
St. Paul's also supports the work of Samaritan's Purse with its Operation Christmas Child Shoebox program which distributes gifts to children in underdeveloped countries throughout the world. In 2007 that contribution was in the form of financial support for one of our young people, Jenna Donaldson, who traveled to Argentina in December 2007 to help with distribution of the boxes.
As a congregation, we currently are partnering with World Vision to finance the construction and on-going maintenance of a well to supply clean drinking water to a village in Africa. The total cost of the Well Project is $15,000 and the entire community of Nobleton was invited to join St. Paul's in this endeavour. As of early January our goal had been met.
