Missions
The Missions team desires to raise the level of awareness of God’s work in the world and to increase engagement in it. To achieve that goal, the team coordinates the support of missions in Canada and beyond, and brings regular news reports back to the congregation. We have ongoing involvement with some individuals and organizations that we support and there are also special projects that we choose to become involved with.
We have had ongoing involvement with Alan and Natalie Self, serving with Campus for Christ. 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 support the work of the Christian Salvage Mission, an organization that works to re-distribute donated Christian literature in the developing world, and 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 we sponsored one of our young people, Jenna Donaldson, who traveled to Argentina to help with distribution of the boxes.
In 2009 we sent one of our members on a Word of Life mission trip to Jamaica.
As a congregation, in 2010 we partnered 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 was $15,000 and the entire community of Nobleton was invited to join St. Paul's in this endeavour.
In 2011, we supported the Christian Salvage Mission, an AIDS orphanage in Cambodia, Place of Rescue, Power to Change representatives Alan and Natalie Self, Operation Christmas Child, and Christmas drives in King Township and in Nobleton.
For 2012, we plan to continue supporting some of our missions described above and to consider others that the Lord presents to us.
