St. Cuthbert's Church

St. Cuthbert’s Spring Book and Bake Sale 2023

Saturday May 6^th at 11 am – 2 pm

Kids, Teens and Adult used books for sale. Don’t miss our Freshly Baked Delights, preserves, jams and jellys. Check our collection of CDs, DVDs and LPs. Share the news with your family and friends. All proceeds will go toward St. Cuthbert’s Church. We hope to see you there!

St. Cuthbert’s TimeTalentTreasure2022 ONLINE AUCTION

Our TimeTalentTreasure2022 online auction will end this Sunday, February 27th at 2 pm.  So, if you’ve been holding off on your bids, maybe Sunday around 1:30 pm might be a good time to start topping up bids on your favourite items at 32Auctions

Special information!  The auction is set to have Extended Bidding on it.  This means that if you are outbid just before 2 o’clock, you will get the regular notice that you’ve been outbid, but WILL have an opportunity to up your bid.  It also means that after that, someone else can outbid you, as long as they move quickly (under 5 minutes).  This can continue until 2:30 pm at the latest.

Go to 32Auctions to bid or outbid on your favourite items!

BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP

Join us Thursday, February 15th at 1:30 pm

Don’t judge a book by it’s cover!  Starting this month we will explore “How to Make Love (the Agape Kind) with Jesus” by the Rev. Dr. William Aulenbach.

Here is an opportunity to examine our beliefs – where they came from, how they have changed over the years, guided by this book, and its accompanying workbook. The book is available on Kindle or as a paperback.

Interested in joining? Please contact the office for further details stcuthbertleaside@toronto.anglican.ca

BAYVIEW GARDEN OPENING CELEBRATION – SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18th, 2022 @ 2pm 

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!! 

to all those who made the Bayview Garden Opening such a wonderful event!

It was a true blessing to see members of St. Cuthbert’s, and the wider community, come together to celebrate our new prayerful, peaceful garden. We are particularly grateful to the committee who organized the celebration, as well as all of the behind-the-scenes helpers. While there were a few raindrops it did not damper the joy and as one friend noted “it was as if God were baptizing the whole thing!”

Photo credit Michael Hudson / Anglican Diocese of Toronto

Bayview Garden Project

Please click here or on the image to view a special presentation

BAYVIEW GARDEN PROJECT – UPDATE & ANNOUNCEMENT

A core team of Reverend Janet, Chris Vyse, Guy Stevenson, Michael Wissell, Tim Sellers, Mary Lynne Stewart and Ian Beverley with recent additions of Spencer Wissell, Linda Prue and Jane Milligan have been working over the last six months to make the Bayview Garden Project a reality this fall.  Here is the current status:

• We have all permits in place or in progress to undertake the project.
• The new illuminated sign has been ordered and is ready for installation when the rest of the project proceeds.
• With Amy Turner, our landscape architect, we have selected a landscape architect who will be available to begin construction with the other contractors this October
• The funds required to complete the project are $280,000.  Work will proceed as funds become available.
• How are we going to fund this? 
  • Over the past years we have received approximately $90,000 to fund the costs to date of approximately $70,000. 
  • Over the past 6 months the Project Team has been submitting funding applications to various charities and foundations.

Matching Gift Program

• • • The Wardens have allocated $100,000 from the Norma Bird Bequest to be made available for the Bayview Garden Project in a dollar for dollar matching gift program to start in June.
    • Under this program, each dollar donated to the Bayview Garden Project will be matched by one dollar from this allocation up to a maximum of $100,000 and to a total amount of $200,000.  This is a great opportunity to get this project moving.
    • Additional funding applications continue in progress. 
    • Materials on the Matching Gift Program will be provided to parishioners in early June.  PLEASE WATCH FOR THEM AND RESPOND AS YOU ARE ABLE.
    • While details are being finalized, an In Memoriam recognition program is being prepared for contributions to the Bayview Garden Project.

This is an exciting time and an exciting opportunity to relaunch, revitalize and re-present St. Cuthbert’s as we begin to envision our return to our physical church in the fall.

PLEASE WATCH FOR DETAILS OF THE MATCHING GIFT PROGRAM AND FOR REGULAR ANNOUNCEMENTS IN THE WHAT’S ON BULLETIN.

Thank You for your support!

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