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St. Timothy's Outreach

When we approved our 2006 – 2007 Parish Budget this year, our parish decided to dedicate 10% of our income from regular offerings to outreach projects. This would be our “corporate” outreach and would be in addition to the outreach from our Parish groups or generated from special events.  The Give Committee’s task was to determine criteria for our outreach, to identify suitable projects and to make recommendations to Parish Council. We decided that the recipients of our outreach should meet the criteria of being: Christian, orthodox, and accountable for using money well and properly. We determined that our outreach should have local, national and outreach components. After deliberation we recommended to Council that our Outreach projects should be:

Local:  The Harvest Project. This organization is of course very familiar to us all. St. Timothy’s held its first Sunday Services in their premises, several members of our congregation volunteer their services there, and their director, Bob Rogers, preached at one of our recent services. The Harvest Project is “Extending a Hand Up, Not a Handout,” and is focused on preventing homelessness on the North Shore by helping  those with low incomes deal with temporary crises so that they are only temporary, not life defining. For more information, visit: www.harvestproject.org

National:    Assistance to be provided to an ACiC Church Plant to be determined through Paul Carter.

 International:   Purchase of library resources for the Kigali Anglican Theological College in Kigali, Rwanda. The school, Rwanda’s first seminary, is the fulfilment of a dream long held by Rwanda’s Archbishop Emmanuel Kolini, who sees the college as a way of building the church and helping the ongoing healing in the nation that endured genocide a dozen years ago.  Classes at the college began March 6th, 2006. Our rector, Ken Bell, met Caroline Seed, a professor at the college and wife of Dick Seed, Principal and professor of the College, last year at Winter College. She reports that the college faces a myriad number of start-up challenges. She told Ken that their next stage of development was to set up an Education Faculty in order to recruit students for a Diploma in Education (with Christian Education Focus). They had been praying for the money to supply the library with the necessary education books.

While the college does not have a web site, you can obtain more information at:
www.cms-uk.org/news/2006/kigali_college_history_190506.htm
Or
www.globalsouthanglican.org/index.php/weblog/C12/

At the Parish Council’s May Meeting the following motion was passed:
MOTION: Moved that the Parish Council accept the Give Committee’s recommendation that the three “corporate’ outreach targets be: 1) the Harvest Project, 2) the Kigali Anglican Theological College, and 3) an ACIC church plant project; that each of the foregoing projects be funded in the amount of $4000, for the 2006 year with $2000 each to be disbursed immediately, and that $4000 be retained in the outreach budget for contingent purposes. 

At the same meeting, the council also accepted a Give Committee recommendation for a $100 donation to Arocha Canada, a Christian environmental organization focused on creation care and stewardship. The donation will provide St. Timothy’s with membership in the organization. Arocha will provide a speaker at a service in November.

St Timothy’s can be proud that with these steps, by Giving of our time, talent and treasure to serve others, we are living up to our Mission statement: to be a nurturing, biblically-based community growing Christ's Kingdom.

Chris Vondette
Chair of Give Committee