Outreach & Opportunities
Friday Food Ministry
The Friday Food Ministry has been the core social justice ministry of St. Thomas’s Church for over 25 years. A ministry coordinator organizes volunteers from St. Thomas’s, other churches, high school and university groups, and community organizations to prepare 53 evening meals a year—one each Friday and a Thanksgiving feast.
Refugee Sponsorship
St. Thomas’s has a long history of welcoming the stranger through involvement in Canada’s private refugee sponsorship program, a program that allows private citizens, in churches or neighbourhoods, or as friends, to offer financial and personal support to refugees when they arrive as newcomers in Canada. This work began in the late 1970s and continued for many years during several waves of refugee crises.