Parish News

St. Paul’s Shawville helps rural residents access regional food bank

David Humphreys September 1, 2023

Bouffe Pontiac food bank is located in Campbell’s Bay, a town of 800, with a mandate to serve a vast area with a population of ...

St. Aidan’s and St. Thomas team up to give

Lois Wynn February 1, 2023

In the St. Aidan’s neighbourhood, the Dempsey Community Centre was transformed just over a year ago into a city-run shelter for about 60 homeless women. ...

Breakfast is served at St. James Carleton Place

Holly Carol Parkinson February 1, 2023

It is 9:15 a.m. Scrambled eggs are cooking in the frying pan. Clad in her new apron, Lynn keeps her watchful eye on the eggs, ...

St. Margaret’s Inuit congregation offers unique opportunity for sharing and reconciliation

Leigh Anne Williams February 1, 2023

When St. Margaret’s was built in 1887 as a church for the village of Janeville outside Ottawa, it was surrounded by fields and forest. But ...

St. Stephen’s provides Inuit drums for the children of Iqaluit

Frances Macdonnell January 1, 2023

A long relationship has existed between St. Stephen’s Anglican Church in Ottawa and the people of Iqaluit, Nunavut. Many of the congregation, from teenagers to grandparents, ...

Making a difference one bag at a time

Grace Jones January 1, 2023

“So this is what is going on at the church in Greely on Tuesday nights,” was one of many comments heard at All Saints Greely’s ...

Area Parish of the St. Lawrence in action

Perspective January 1, 2023

When Kathy Lucking, a Canadian elementary school teacher, volunteered in an orphanage in Madagascar in 2007, she was struck by the number of children who ...

St. Bart’s restored Geddes window rededicated

Perspective January 1, 2023

Remembrance Sunday Nov. 6, 2022 in the Guards’ Chapel -— On Remembrance Sunday in 2021, St. Barts launched a two-part capital campaign to restore the ...

St. Thomas art auction raises funds for Water First

Barbara Bottriell December 2, 2022

Selling art is not the easiest way to fundraise for a cause, but the art auction organized by St Thomas Anglican Church in Stittsville managed ...