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.
Last fall, 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.
On two Sundays in February, Outreach organized two events. During coffee time, there was a presentation about the work at Camp Fircom, the United Church camp on Gambier Island. Dunbar has been supportive of the project and has three congregation members actively involved.
The second event was a visit from a jewellery-making project in Guatemala which provides training, support and opportunities for women in that country.
DHUC Outreach Service to the community takes the form of:
- Support for St. Elizabeth House, a shelter for women and children at a January Soup Sunday
- Ethiopia Night,
- The Apple Strudel Project
- 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 Aftican countries to study and live in Canada.
Meetings are held the first Wednesday of every month all are welcome to attend.