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"We are nurtured and challenged by the presence of the Spirit
to find depth and meaning for our lives
and to engage our neighbourhood near and far in living lives of justice."

Our Outreach program is the way we live out that part of our Vision.

Ongoing programs care for those in our congregation and reach out to Vancouver communities and through projects overseas. Generous anonymous gifts to the Outreach Committee have enabled Dunbar members to fulfil many of our Outreach dreams. Dunbar Heights is represented on the Community of Churches, giving us the chance to work with other west-side church Outreach Committees.

Ways we care for our own congregation and keep ourselves informed are:

  • coffee time in the gym following every Sunday worship;
  • monthly Soup Sundays during which a speaker from the outreach committee talks about one project;
  • name tags for the congregation;
  • a Women's Book Club;
  • plans to make the side entrance more welcoming;
  • selling Fair Trade Coffee. The project is going very well with members donating all the coffee for Sunday mornings and keeping sales steady.
Monthly Soup Sundays feed the body and feed the soul. There are hot homemade soups and time for conversation. Some people give up sitting in church in favour of making tasty biscuits to feed friends.
Take a bowl of soup, a hot biscuit and find a spot at a table.

Coffee, tea, juice and often cake or cookies, too feed important times for conversation following every Sunday morning worship.


Community Outreach Projects

Dunbar's major ongoing Vancouver Outreach activity is our support of St Elizabeth Home, a shelter for women. Gently used clothing and household items are collected year-round. At Christmas, the congregation prepared gifts for all residents, women and children at the home. We also arrange Mother's Day gifts for the women.

In January, Amanda Rawle, a staff member at the home came to talk about the work of the umbrella organization, St James Community Service Society, and aspects of life at St. Elizabeth.

To find out more about St James Community Service Society, click here.


The Apple Strudel Project took advantage of God's bountiful harvest of apples to make apple strudel for sale and to feed all at a First Dinner.
Click this picture to see more about this project.
Outreach organizes events, often during coffee time, like Camp Fircom and the jewellery-making project in Guatemala.
           
Others are evening events at Dunbar or other neighbourhood churches,
such as Ethiopia night and the evening of food and music of the Middle East


DHUC Outreach Service to the community takes the form of:
  • Support for St. Elizabeth House, a shelter for women and children,
  • Ethiopia Night,
  • The Apple Strudel Project making dessets for First United dinner
  • Assistance to the Motivation, Power and Achievement in the form of deliveries of food to the MPA Resource Centre on 4th Avenue which feeds street people;
  • Ongoing support for First United in the Downtown Eastside by gathering needed items, serving dinner once a month and through financial support.
  • Collecing pop can tabs, the proceeds go to support Valley Therapeutic Equestrian Centre, which assists people with a variety of impairments
  • Saving used stamps which are collected by the Eastern Star and then sold to purchase cancer dressings provided at no cost
  • Sales of AROUND THE WORLD IN SANDALS and TIMBUKTU, WHERE ARE YOU?, two books written by members of our congregation, generate money for M&S. Find out more about Penny and Russel and their books here
Overseas outreach focuses on bringing refugees from African countries to study and live in Canada.

Meetings are held the first Wednesday of every month all are welcome to attend.

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