Church News

Presbyterian Church responds to famine emergency in East Africa

By now you've certainly heard in the news about the famine spreading across East African countries due to the worst drought the region has experienced in 60 years. As an initial response to this growing crisis, Presbyterian World Service and Development (PWS&D) is working in partnership with Canadian Foodgrains Bank and Canadian Lutheran World Relief to provide over 18,000 people in Ethiopia with food and food-for-work programs.

You can find a more detailed update on the Presbyterian Church in Canada website that will give you information as to how you can help send aid via financial donations to assist in relieving the suffering of these people.

WFPC is tracking (via a "Thermometer" on the Fellowship Hall Hallway Bulletin Board) all donations that we are giving to PWS&D. If you give by other means than a cash or cheque donation directly to WFPC (e.g. online donation, cheque sent directly to PWS&D) please advise our Treasurer or place an anonymous note on the offering plate regarding your $ amount donation so we can accurately keep track on the "Thermometer". If you want the donation to go directly to the famine aid, please mark "East African Famine" on the memo portion of your cheque, or write it on the envelope containing your $ donation when placed on the offering plate.

Please save these plastic bags!

Jean Betzner, a longtime member of our congregation, has been "weaving" colorful, comfortable sleeping mats from plastic bags.   These are for use in impoverished nations where so many people are just sleeping on bare ground or with only a blanket to protect them.   Jean uses mostly the outer plastic bags that contain 3 one liter milk bags when you buy milk at the store.  Please save yours and arrange delivery directly with Jean. Jean needs helpers who can cut the bags into strips and help her with the weaving...please consider helping in this way.   You can make contact with Jean through the number listed for the Church on our "Contact Us" page.

Please save your Aluminum cans.

Arrange to give them to Pat Haskell who will crush them and when sufficient quantities are collected & recycled, the proceeds will be donated to a WFPC Mission Project of choice.  You can contact Pat through the number listed for the Church on our "Contact Us" page.