MALAWI (HAHFA) UPDATE! YOU ARE MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN PEOPLE’S LIVES! The Hands and Hearts for Africa (HAHFA) team is still at work with our partners in Malawi. Our friends there that we have had relationships with since 2006, are so appreciative of your...
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The Church has been walking with the Wellington Orphanage in Sierra Leone, Africa, for 22 years. We are grateful that Janet Jevons and Lindsay Consoli will be taking over the leadership of this ministry. They will:• manage the monthly donation from the church for...
We are doing our annual flower sale to raise funds for Malawi (HAHFA). Orders must be placed before April 19th, 2023. Click Here for the order form or pick up at the office. E-transfer information is on the order form. Hi folks, I trust...
We have supported Wellington Orphanage for 22 years. This month, we are sending a small container with some specific needs: * We need new underwear, boys and girls, ages 10 to 16. * New toothbrushes. * Gently used, freshly laundered, summer clothing. * New and...
The Malawi team received an update from Efrida’s kids club. “Kids are learning and given Food properly, as you can see on the pictures. But kids are taking plates and spoons in there homes due to lack of mentioned items above. As indicated in...
Thank you to the over 220 people that responded to the Journey for Justice survey! We’ve heard you loud and clear, and we are now ready to embark on our journey of learning together this fall. As a community, we have agreed that it...
We send congratulation to our children at Wellington Orphanage in Sierra Leone for successfully passing the public exams to enter Junior Secondary School…….. We continue to pray against the violent outburst of protestors on the streets of Freetown in mid-August that killed 6 police...
Journey For Justice (J4J) Survey Results Survey Results in Living Colour!Are you a visual learner? See the Journey for Justice survey results presented in some easy-to-read graphs. CLICK HERE to review the visual representation of the survey results. Summary ofSurveyResults:An abbreviated summary of thesurveyresults...
Online Spiritual Gatheringwith Sacred Fire and Film ScreeningTuesday May 31st, 2022@ 7:30 PM Eastern (6:30 PM Central) via Zoom Join the SW Ontario Tri-Regions for an Online spiritual gathering and screening of NFB Film: Honour to Senator Murray Sinclair. This film is newly released...
Our Church has had the privilege of walking with Wellington Orphanage in Sierra Leone, Africa for over 21 years. We are so happy to congratulate some of our original orphans on their Graduation from University this year. Kadiatu, graduated with her BSC Degree in...
Dear Wellington Square United Church It is with happiness and pleasure that we wish to report that the Bluewater Growing Project (BGP) was able to raise a record amount of $130,000 for theCanadian Foodgrains Bank (CFGB). Of this amount $48,000 was designated for projects...
The Wellington Square Outreach Committee that supports Wellington Orphanage in Sierra Leone would like to thank church members, friends and family who came out to help assemble hygiene kits at Sew on Fire on Feb. 15/22. Sew on Fire is a charitable organization that...
The Hands and Hearts for Africa (HAHFA) team is so very grateful for the support provided to our partners in Malawi over the past year. This support has led to the building of “Frannie’s Chapel” in memory of our dear friend and co-founder, Fran...
Each year, YUGO ministries commit to building over 100 homes for people in communities around the Ensenada area. These are young families, often with multiple generations under one roof who struggle with food and shelter insecurity. YUGO ministries rely on their partnership with churches...
Our container sent October 2021 arrived just before Christmas. Food, clothing, shoes, bedding, towels, soap, medical supplies, toys, sports equipment, along with garden and carpentry tools were such a blessing. Pastor Mansaray sends their deepest thanksgiving to the Wellington Church saints. Our prayer was...
This year we are hosting aTrunk or Treatevent at Wellington Square! You are invited to bring your whole family, your vehicle (or a wagon or bike or…?), a bag to collect treats, and a “trunk” full of goodies to hand out to our participants!...
MeetAsnakech Zema. In this film, she welcomes us to her thriving farm in southern Ethiopia. In the last three years, she has built up her land through practicing conservation agriculture, and now grows enough food to feed her family and others. The work she...
Life remains hard for our Orphans in Sierra Leone. Not only are they contending with Covid and the lack of testing and vaccinations, the Dr.’s in Sierra Leone have been on strike for months. Doctors have just returned to work. Thank You God. This...
Back in 2015, the Malawi team visited a huge parched plot of land with Pastor Moses. The dream was to bring water to this land so that there would be more harvests per year of a variety of crops. Six years later, our prayers...
Thanks to your generous support, this once dry barren land now has various crops growing to feed 25 families AND provides income from sales of the produce! Pastor Moses leads this irrigation project in the Bimbi area of Malawi. We are getting ready...
Join us on June 28th at 7:30 (over Zoom) when we learn together about the Doctrine of Discovery. This concept–that most of us never learned about– is foundational for “settling” North America. Register Here We want to spend our time sharing conversation so if...
Terri-Lynn Ledger June14, 2021 The news of the Kamloops residential school graves discovery continues to flood my mind, and my heart… How can we process such a thing? Layering in the fact that the United Church of Canada was a part of this unfathomable...
Great News WS Family! Our original Seeds of Life growing project in Alberton have been blessed recently with financial support from their main group of contributors and so our role is no longer required. We are now supporting a new local growing project in...
Rob Irish June 7, 2021 The Children are Alive! And need our support While most attention this past week has been focused quite rightly on the horrific and tragic findings at Kamloops Indian Residential School, there is an abuse of children unfolding in front...
Rob Irish June 3, 2021 Moving at the Speed of Trust Like all of you, I was aghast at the discovery of the remains of 215 children under the grounds of the Kamloops Indian Residential School. But, as United Church Moderator Richard Bott noted...
May30, 2021 Rob Irish On Friday, May 28th 2021, the Honourable Murray Sinclair spoke to three regions of the United Church about the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and the history of Residential Schools in Canada. Mr. Sinclair, who is a former senator and...
Passages Matthew 13:1-6, 20-21 The seed falling on rocky ground refers to someone who hears the word and at once receives it with joy. But since they have no root, they last only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the...
by Rob Irish Between May 17 and 20th, I had the opportunity to attend part of the conference put on by Citizens for Public Justice, a faith-based justice organization. One session, entitled “Lessons from Indigenous Spirituality,” was led by Rev. Dr. Ray Aldred, a...
Healing is the message of Kingdom “Lest they should understand with their hearts and turn, so that I shall heal them.” Matthew 13:16 Jesus commissions the twelve to go to the lost sheep of Israel: “As you go, proclaim this message: ‘The kingdom of...
Thank you to all of those who lovingly knitted or crocheted squares and dropped them off at the church! We were able to send enough squares in early 2021 to make 15 blankets for children! Hands And Hearts For Africa (HAHFA) is partnered with...
The Wellington Orphanage is in need of new mattresses. If you would like to help a child to sleep in peace, please make a donation. Each mattress costs $62 and our goal is to provide 70 mattresses for the children. You can make your...
Zikomo! Thank you! To all of the people who knitted or crocheted “squares” to send to Malawi. We collected a total of 555 squares! That is 15 blankets that the widows group will make for children! The squares of all colours and textures were...
A picture of joy from last Christmas at our Wellington Orphanage in Sierra Leone. The boys and girls dressed up to celebrate the birth of Jesus. The older girls made new dresses for the younger girls and styled their hair. We sent an extra...
Our soybeans were harvested on September 30, and on October 9 we planted winter wheat, which will be harvested in the summer of 2021. All of the proceeds from the sale of soybeans, together with your donations, totaled over $78,000 after expenses. This money,...
This is a good news story from Malawi – a new president, Lazarus Chakwera, who is a man of God and a pastor!We pray for the safety of Lazarus and his family, and that this new president will succeed in working against corruption and...
Thanks to the generous support from Wellington Square, the Irrigation project that was started 4 years ago, is now bringing tremendous benefits to the Word of Grace Church community in Bimbi, Malawi. Pastor Moses claims that the irrigation is a great breakthrough for the...
Knitted squares, each 8×8″ from women in Canada, are a particular blessing for widows in Malawi. Gathering at a rural church, the widows’ groups stitch together 35 squares to make 1 blanket for 1 child.The blankets are given to the most needy children in...
The Canadian Government is matching donations from individual Canadians made to the Humanitarian Coalition, of which Canadian Food Grains Bank is a member, to provide assistance to people in Lebanon after the disaster that devastated the City of Beirut. The Government of Canada will...
Seeds of Life are growing soybeans on our Alberton farm and should be ready for harvest in late September/October. Next year winter wheat. Thank you, Wellington Square, for your support- we couldn’t have done it without you.
Over the past year, Food Grain supporters and others have been sending letters and e postcards to their MP’s asking for Canada to increase aid to developing countries. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced in the Throne Speech that they will fund $400 million to...
Pastor Mansaray, the staff and volunteers and the children of Wellington Orphanage send their warm thanksgiving to us for the funds to purchase the anti-malarial nets.Bless you for your generosity.
Wellington Orphanage developed a trade school, where the adult orphans who are not able to go to college, can learn a trade. Here they are making masks for the orphanage. Thank God, for purposeful work.
The dry season is here, the children are well and enjoying outdoors. The younger children have returned to the Orphanage in Freetown so they can attend the free school. We pray for protection from the virus.
If you liked THE SHACK, you will love this book. “ Here’s a wonderful feast for the mind and soul! Pull up a chair and eavesdrop on this provocative conversation. If you are like me, you’ll hear questions that match your own- and answers...
Charles Sheldon’s WWJD was a significant challenge in its time, but God calls us to do more than wait until we are facing a decision and then choose to do what we think Jesus would do. We are to incarnate Christ in our time,...
Survival – A Hebrew girl first tasted the need of it when she escaped nearly 70 years ago as the Babylonian army ransacked Jerusalem and took their finest captives. She thought she’d perfected it in the many years amongst the Magoi and the idol...
David Jeremiah is the founder of Turning Point, an international ministry committed to providing Christians with sound Bible teaching through radio, television, the internet, live events, books and resource materials. In his new book, Overcomer, he offers his insights on one of the most...
You will never look at the life of Moses in the same way after meeting his mother and grandmother in this masterful debut novel. Some Bible stories become so familiar that it is often forgotten that they involve real people, real women and men,...
In the wake of WW11, a grieving fisherman submits a poem to a local news-paper; a rallying cry for hope, purposeand rocks,send me a rock for the person you lost and I will build something life-giving. When the poem spreads farther than he ever...
Robin Windsor has spent most of her life under an assumed name to avoid association with her infamous, incarcerated parents. She was living a peaceful new life running a used bookstore and thought she had put the past behind her. But simultaneously, her store...
This thought provoking documentary follows the historical past of JESUS: THE BIRTH THE BAPTISM THE MINISTRY THE BETRAYAL THE CRUCIFIXION THE RESURRECTION THE PENTECOST & HIS MIRACLES
Catherine West creates a well drawn portrait of a family in crisis. Lynette Carlisle lives with her failing father in their Nantucket home. Her mother died when she was twelve and her four siblings have one by one left and never returned. All have...
As a first-year law associate, Sydney Batson knows she will be updating her resume by New Year’s if she loses her current court case. So when her grandmother gets inexplicably ill while she’s in court, Sydney arranges for a cab to get her to...
When Connor Larkin boards a late night bus in downtown L.A. he’s not sure where he’s going or what he’s looking for. Putting his acting career-and his finance-on hold, he’s searching for a part of himself he lost on the road to success. Now,...
When Jake, Sophia, and Brody slide down the tube slide at their local park, they are shocked to find themselves in an underground headquarters and transformed into Secret Slide Money Club agents. Soon the friends learn that they’re in an ongoing battle against Albatross,...
There are years of memories and relationships with YUGO ministries and the community of Ensenada, Mexico. Ensenada is located approx. 100 km from the US border on the Baja peninsula. With a simple but familiar surrounding at the YUGO Ministries campus, the Mexico Mission...
For over 10 years, the Wellington Square congregation has participated and supported YUGO Ministries in their house ministry program. This project is a valuable “hand-up” that builds a deeper relationship with Christ for everyone involved. The 2017 Mission Experience explored the possibility of going...
November 4-11, 2017 “For every house is built by someone, but He who built all things is God.” – Hebrews 3:4 This year, a team of seven will be heading down for our annual build week in Ensenada, Mexico. Although the house is the...
A team of 17 is heading down to Ensenada, Mexico next week to build a home for eachof two deserving families. You can learn a little more about these families by clicking here. This year’s team would like to thank thecongregation for their continued...
You may have been wondering why you have been seeing so much of Rhonda lately? Back in December I took a time of Sabbatical – after 14 years straight of intense ministry, it was so great and important to take some time to rest,...
Wellington Square did a great job serving and representing both Christ and their church! By now the logistics of the trip are a bit easier (or so it seems) as we’ve done it a few times and the leadership team brings great experience to...
Rhonda’s thoughts on the Mexico Mission What an amazing week we’ve had with our team from Wellington Square!!! So many factors – great tone, wonderful personalities, great leadership, intentional connecting time, new energy, beautiful families, great connections, the reunions with past families, special surprises....