Our Purpose:

• To initiate and support mission and outreach activities within our parish

Our Goals:

• to increase awareness within the parish of mission and outreach issues and opportunities
• to reach out to provide practical assistance to our “neighbours” locally and beyond our community

Our Theme:

• Who Is My Neighbour?

Ongoing support for local projects:

• “Out of the Cold Dinners” – St. Andrew’s United and other Anglican parishes
• Sudbury Action Centre for Youth: volunteer support and donations of clothing
• Community Outreach program: donations of socks, shoes and other clothing
• Samaritan Centre: supplying sandwiches on a scheduled basis
• Sudbury Food Bank: providing food items through NAPOS (Neighourhood Action Project of Sudbury)
• Sunrise House Orphanage, Uganda.
  Continuing parish support plus individual donations. Youth group is planning a practical support project.
  The Sunday School and Youth Groups have raised enough money to purchase almost 50 chickens and one cow for the farm project. Congratulations and thanks.
• St. Jude's Cathedral, Iqaluit, Nunavut. This historic igloo-shaped cathedral, destroyed by an arsonist in 2005, is being rebuilt with financial support from Church of the Epiphany.
• Local Projects -
  ongoing support to local community programs listed above.

Membership and Meetings:

• A small core group of volunteers with others involved in focused projects, with the chair elected by the Annual Vestry and sitting on Parish Council.
• Meetings are held on the first Thursday of each month at 12:00 noon

Funding:

• Core funding from the parish budget, supplemented by fund-raising activities such as a highly successful book/CD/ video sale, sales of books from the Augsberg press, and sales of PWRDF Christmas cards.

Committee Chair: Mary Donato

Our scripture motto:
In asmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me Matthew 25:40