Outreach Ministries
 Mission
& Service Fund
This large outreach program is administered through the
United Church of Canada. It touches all parts of Canada and
the world and plays a very important part of our church life.
All funds donated to M&S are paid directly to the United
Church of Canada which is used to extend our Outreach to
Canadians in need and to international projects. Most years
Sydenham has met its M&S pledge, and I am sure this year we'll
also succeed. Please continue your M&S support. Our M&S
Enthusiast, Sonny Sinclair will continue keeping you informed
about the good work of the Mission & Service Fund.
 Sunday
School Christmas Family Project
Over the last few years, our Sunday School has raised money
by holding a luncheon and other money making projects to help
a family in our community every Christmas by supplying food
and gifts at Christmas. We want to keep our congregation
informed that our Sunday School is also committed to outreach
projects! If more money is needed, another fund raiser
may be necessary. Please support this program, as it gives our
Sunday School children a great opportunity to help a needy
family and experience the gift of giving.
 Pennies
- Community Living
Marion McLellan is still saving pennies and she needs all
the help you can give. This year the pennies are going to the
Community Living Literacy Program. Literacy means teaching
mentally impaired people to use a computer, learn to count,
learn to write etc. Let's keep Aunt Marion busy rolling
pennies.
Sydenham Men's Club
Thank you to everyone at Sydenham for supporting this fund
raiser.
Canadian Foodgrains Bank
 Canadian
Foodgrains Bank: Sydenham has supported this program for a few
years now under the direction of the Outreach Commission. It
provides funds to local farmers to grow grain or com which is
donated to the Food Grains Bank to help feed the world's
hungry.
Click
here for the Canadian Foodgrains Bank Link
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 KAIROS
KAIROS unites churches and religious organizations in a
faithful ecumenical response to the call to “do justice, and
to love kindness and to walk humbly with your God” (Micah
6:8). We deliberate on issues of common concern, advocate for
social change and join with people of faith and goodwill in
action for social transformation. Please visit our website
www.kairoscanada.org
Kairos* signals a time of crisis and new possibilities, a
time of repentance, renewal and decisive action. This can be a
pinnacle moment, such as the current challenges to churches
and communities presented by globalization. Kairos* can also
be a stream of moments, daily injustices that call us to act
in God’s name. Every time we read the signs of our world and
see injustice, the very meaning of faith is at stake in our
response. Recognizing kairos* means acknowledging that the
time to act for justice is now.
From the Desk of Mary Corkery
Executive Director of KAIROS
June 7, 2010
Dear Friends,
Heartfelt thanks to you, the KAIROS network, from the
KAIROS board and staff as well as our friends, supporters and
partners across the country and overseas.
You’ve been a source of inspiration and hope to us these past
six months. On November 30, 2009, when KAIROS received news of
the CIDA cut, we were in shock, as were churches, NGOs, global
partners - even people who previously knew very little of
KAIROS.
But the KAIROS community put shock and anger to work, writing
letters to Minister Oda, Minister Kenney and the Prime
Minister. Many of you have also taken very effective action by
meeting with your Member of Parliament. You went in teams to
explain what KAIROS really does and asked MPs to support
renewed CIDA funding for KAIROS. The experience itself was
empowering for many of you.
On March 30, KAIROS reapplied to CIDA for our program, using
CIDA’s new themes of children and youth and food security that
were not available at the time of our previous application.
For all the people who benefit from KAIROS’ work, I offer you
three ways to help in the coming weeks and months.
Please pray for KAIROS, our partners and for international
development, as we keep faith with our mission to end poverty
and protect human rights and the earth.
Give financially, if you can.
And act, again. Would you be willing to follow-up with your
MP? Our new application has been with CIDA since March 30,
2010. Your MP could ask that it be given prompt and thorough
consideration.
At this time, KAIROS and the international development
community in Canada are also gravely concerned that CIDA may
be planning to cut funding to our coordinating body,The
Canadian Council for International Cooperation (CCIC), by
mid-July.
CCIC helps 90 international development organizations in
Canada, including KAIROS, to work together. For more than four
decades, CCIC has achieved important, positive changes to
international development policies that we couldn’t have
achieved as individual organizations. De-funding CCIC would be
a major blow to the kind of people-to-people support so
effectively delivered by Canadian organizations, including
many of our churches. For more information, see www.ccic.ca.
KAIROS staff can help you plan a call, write a letter or
organize a meeting. Anne Herteis will be working for KAIROS on
this campaign, and she can be reached at (416) 463-5312 ext
225.
Please tell your MP that global partners suffer the most from
cuts to KAIROS and other organizations – and that
de-funding CCIC would further diminish Canada’s international
development effectiveness.
With gratitude for whatever you can do,
Mary
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