Our Outreach
St Peter and St Simon’s inhabits one of the most diverse and dense neighbourhoods in Toronto.
Our outreach to the community is coordinated through a group called Connections. They are in charge of food bank donations, and outreach efforts to community groups. Presently SPSS donates the use of the kitchen and parish hall to members of CREW (Community Resilience to Extreme Weather) once a week.
We respond with programs from support for refugees, to a homework club for local kids, and music lessons through the organization St. James Town Community Arts formerly Reaching Out through Music.
- The Refugee Committee members at work in 2019.
- Rogers was able to bring his wife and children to Canada from Uganda with the help of SPSS.
- Muhammed, Jomard, and Ted Robinson. SPSS sponsored Mohamed in 2016, his father Jomard in 2019, and we are working on the application for Bushra, Jomard’s wife.
- The Homework Club welcomes about 30 children Monday-Friday for after school tutoring and supervision.
- Members of the SPSS Opportunities Committee participating in the annual Cabbagetown Festival
- We open up our church building to welcome The St. James Town Community Arts for their programming needs