St. Philip's Anglican Church - Dunbar Vancouver

In 2010 the Outreach Committee was active in donating some $47,000.00 to organizations we have supported for many years as well as adding new ones to support. The ones we have supported for many years include:

- Rector's Discretionary Fund - $200 given monthly

- Lower Mainland Grief Recovery Program

- St. Michael's Mission meal program and food bank

- GEM (going the extra mile), funds go to 127 Housing Society, Young Wolves Lodge, and Matthew Johnson’s DTES street ministry

- Kidsafe

- UBC bursary for First Nations student

- Langara College bursary for special need students who need specialised testing for learning equipment.

- Aunt Leah's

- Vancouver Food Bank

- Doctor's Without Borders

- The Crossing at Keremeos, a treatment centre for addicted youth

- St. James Music Academy, a program of choral and instrumental music instruction for elementary school children of the Downtown Eastside.

- Four foster children supported through Foster Parent's Plan

- The women's shelters St. Elizabeth's and Powell St, operated by St. James Community Service Society.

- Camp Artaban

- The Stephen Lewis Foundation

- St. Philip's Christmas hamper program,

- Primate's World Relief and Development Fund- 4 special projects this anniversary year.

- the Rev’d Emillie Smith's ministry in Guatemala supported by our free trade coffee sales

- SOS Children's Village which helps children in care

- Street Ministry of the 3 West Point Grey Anglican Churches, St. Philip's, St. Helen's and St. Anselm's.

- Mission to Seafarers Christmas Shoebox program

- First United Church, providing shelter, meals and a place for storage of belongings for homeless in the Downtown Eastside.

- QUEST, a food support program

- Haiti Relief donated through PWRDF

- WISH Drop in Centre on East Pender

- Donations to B.C. Cancer Agency and other Outreach Supported agencies

- The youth group and Church raised money to buy bikes for Rwanda

A new addition to our mission is Builders Without Borders, specifically the Aboriginal Mother Centre in the downtown Eastside, near completion at this time.

Another addition we have supported is Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan and their major project, education for girls in Afghanistan

Another recent addition to our list is support for the Rev’d Matthew Johnson's Street Ministry out of St. James' Anglican Church in the Downtown Eastside. Matthew’s mission to persons he meets in that neighbourhood speaks to Christ's template for honouring the poor and downcast in our midst.

An exciting new development in our relationship with Temba House, the Aids Hospice we help support through PWRDF, is that John Stephens and his family visited the hospice, learning first hand about the loving care and excellent success (90% of the people at the hospice are able to return to their communities). John learned about the garden they have started to enable persons with HIV to eat healthful foods. He took with him $200as a gift from outreach. Our major contributions to Temba House go through PWRDF and sure enough, John saw PWRDF posters on the walls of Temba House.

We also gave some money for the first time to Aids Vancouver, an organization that supports persons living with HIV with such problems with housing, applying for Disability Benefits, legal assistance especially with the refugee population.