Outreach
Outreach Committee's Mission Statement
“To co-ordinate, support and promote the congregation’s outreach activities at a local, national, and international level.” We are concerned about many kinds of needs: spiritual, emotional, physical and social.
Local Outreach Supported by St. Andrew’s
- Caring for Children Fund
- Meals on Wheels
- Lacombe Food Bank
- Volunteer Link (Benevolent Fund)
- Healing Pathway
- Community Solutions to Family Violence and Bullying
- Parent Link
- Ministerial Association
National and International Projects supported by St. Andrew’s
- Mission and Service Fund
- FROG (Friends of Guatemala)
- Student Bursary Fund
- Centre for Christian Studies
- Canadian Foodgrains Bank
- Refugee Program
National and International Projects supported by St. Andrew’s
Caring for Children Fund
Lacombe Food Bank
Central Alberta Women’s Emergency Shelter
Central Alberta Women’s Outreach Society
Lacombe and District Family and Community Support Services (FCSS)
NeighbourLink
National and International Humanitarian Links
Other Overseas Service Programmes
KAIROS – An ecumenical partnership working to promote human rights, justice and peace, viable human development, and ecological justice.
Canadian Foodgrains Bank – This program serves as a centralized grain banking and distribution system to alleviate world hunger.
Project Ploughshares – Project Ploughshares is an ecumenical agency of the Canadian Council of Churches established in 1976 to implement the churches’ call to be peacemakers.