PAGE 3 PAGE 9 PAGE 8 Actors give voice Concert honours Toronto Mayor to homeless Healey Willan flips at church TheTHE NEWSPAPER OF THE DIOCESE OF TORONTO AnglicanA SECTION OF THE ANGLICAN JOURNAL www.toronto.anglican.ca APRIL 2018 Grant improves lives of women, children BY JANICE BIEHN IN the past year, prenatal health in Burundi has improved, more babies were born safely in Rwanda, more people in Tanzania gained access to clean drinking water, more babies were not born in the dark in Mozambique and almost 400 low-income women were able to start businesses and lift themselves above the poverty line. Those are just a few of the ways that the diocese’s $500,000 Our Faith-Our Hope grant to the Pri- mate’s World Relief and Develop- ment Fund (PWRDF) made an impact in Africa last year. The funds also supported an Indigenous midwives program in Canada, Peru and Mexico. “The funds provided by the Dio- cese of Toronto have had a real impact on the lives of thousands Jessica Carrington (right) joins Frances Delsol and the Rev. Canon Nicola Skinner after a service at Grace Church, Markham. PHOTO BY MICHAEL HUDSON of people in a very sustainable and lasting way,” says Zaida Bastos, director of PWRDF’s Development Partnership Program. “The medical equipment, water wells, construc- tion of infrastructure and loans Woman heeds will continue affecting the lives of beneficiaries long after the projects Continued on Page 7 call to help Goods, funds sent to island after deadly hurricane BY STUART MANN goods and raised $3,800 for the commissioner in Toronto. has a population of about 70,000 Caribbean island after it was rav- Ms. Carrington was praying in and is located in the Windward HUNDREDS of people on the tiny island aged by Hurricane Maria last Sept. her house early one morning last Islands. A native of Barbados, she nation of Dominica are getting 19. The category 5 storm killed 40 summer when she felt the urge to felt a close kinship to the people much needed items of clothes, people and left most of the country respond to those who had lost their and their suffering. “I thought, this shoes, food and medical supplies in ruins. homes and belongings to the hur- has happened to my neighbours, thanks to the efforts of a woman “Jessica’s efforts made a sig- ricanes that were sweeping across and if it happened to them it could in the Diocese of Toronto. nificant contribution in the lives the Caribbean. “A little voice said happen to us,” she says. A mother and child at a vaccination Jessica Carrington, a member of Dominicans who otherwise had to me, ‘We can help,’” she recalls. She spoke to her priest, the clinic in the Diocese of Masasi. PHOTO of Grace Church, Markham, filled no options,” says Frances Delsol, She was particularly moved by BY PWRDF more than 180 boxes of donated the island’s trade and investment the devastation on Dominica, which Continued on Page 2 RESOURCES FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE DIALOGUE – SEE PAGE 3 2 TheAnglican NEWS April 2018 Islanders grateful for supplies Continued from Page 1 Rev. Canon Nicola Skinner, the incumbent of Grace Church, who enthusiastically encouraged her to help out. The following Sunday, the pair spoke to the congregation from the pulpit, asking parishion- ers to drop off donated items at Ms. Carrington’s garage. Throughout the late summer and fall, parishioners, neighbours and friends dropped off hundreds of items and Ms. Carrington packed JOYFUL PRAISE them into boxes – so many that they The diocese’s 23rd annual black often reached the ceiling. The boxes heritage service, A Spirit of were put into shipping containers Thanksgiving: Joyful Praise!, was and sent down to Dominica by Ms. Delsol’s office. Continued from Page 1 held at St. Paul, Bloor Street on Feb. 25 during Black History Month. “Through Jessica’s efforts, a Clockwise from above: members of the lot of people were able to get new Caribbean Dance Theatre perform; the clothing, shoes and a lot of food,” Diocesan Combined Choir sings; Jamie says Ms. Delsol. Supplies such as Barrow, organist, (left) Archbishop toothbrushes, toothpaste and soap Colin Johnson and the Rev. Canon were put into personal care kits for Jerome Khelawan receive plaques children and seniors. honouring their work and ministry; In addition to the donated goods, Kanier Hodge-Simon and a member of Grace Church raised $3,800 through the Caribbean Dance Theatre perform a karaoke night in October and a in a medley of music and dance. donation from the church’s ACW. Archbishop Johnson preached at the The money was given to Dominica’s service and Bishop Peter Fenty, the Hurricane Maria Fund to assist area bishop of York-Simcoe, presided. those who lost their homes or be- PHOTOS BY MICHAEL HUDSON longings or were injured. Ms. Carrington says she was overwhelmed with joy by the ex- perience. “No words could describe “What so much you do for the it. I actually had the chills while I least of us, you do for me” was doing it. It wasn’t about us. It was about what we could do The Bridge Prison Ministry is seeking 2 special Volunteers to help others. That’s what we’re with a high degree of compassion and understanding. here for – to help others. 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