Amount given to the Christmas Project as of January 10, 2012.
Local - Appleby Bus Shelter
$5,000 for a Bus Shelter on Appleby Drive
Imagine immigrating to Canada. You are working hard to fit in, learn the language, get to work, get to appointments and all without any vehicle. Taking the bus is a great option. However, waiting for the bus can be challenging when winter arrives.
Our $5,000 wil put a bus shelter on Appleby Drive so people can have some shelter from the wind, rain, snow and general unpleasantness of the weather.
The Good Food Junction is going to be the neighbourhood grocery store in Riversdale. Offering a full range of fresh produce, meats and dairy items, along with frozen foods, canned, bottled and bagged goods, health and beauty items, household cleaning supplies and more. All this at reasonable prices.
The Good Food Junction will be opening as part of Station 20 West on Avenue L and 20th Street. Construction is well under way with an opening date set for the summer of 2012.
With the $5,000 we provide, Good Food Junction will be closer to impacting lives in the downtown core right here in Saskatoon.
$10,000 to Assist First Nations Leadership Development
The Christian and Missionary Alliance in Canada has a strong commitment to ministry among our First Nations Alliance Churches of Canada (FNACC) that dates back nearly 30 years. At the present time there are seven First Nations churches. The Board of Directors for the C&MA in Canada and First Nations elders are committed to nurturing a meaningful relationship with each other.
With the $10,000 we provide, First Nations Alliance leaders will be able to study, interact with mentors and raise thier level of excellence to further impact their communities.
In Niger, a country largely covered by the Sahara Desert, over half the population struggles to find water for their daily needs. Some walk miles to access even unclean water, carrying it home in buckets on their heads. Others build wells in dry soil that often collapse during the rainy season. By reinforcing existing wells and digging new ones, our workers are bringing life to peoople in a dry and dusty land.
With the $10,000 we provide, 10 entire communities will have their lives transformed.
Severe restrictions have been placed on the economy of an area of the Caribbean Sun region. This reality causes many to live in extreme poverty. Our team started a microeconomic project to help the members of Alliance churches prosper economically so the churches could be sustained through tithing. This program has expanded to other denominations in order to foster a spirit of unity among the people of God and to partner toghether in reaching this nation for Christ. Church members experience this blessing developed the vision to invite people in the neighborhood to participate as a way to serve the community and express the love of Christ.
With the $10,000 we provide, 50 families and their communities will have their lives transformed.
It only takes $200 to provide a person with a loan to begin a small business venture that will better their social and economic situation which will allow them to be a blessing to their community.
"Now my life has been transformed; I am so thankful that the church opened their group up to me!
You can give right now to the Christmas Project by donating online. (If you have a myCircle account, just log in. If you don't have an account you will need to set up a log in so we can get you a receipt.)
You can bring your gifts for this year's Christmas Project to any Sunday service or you can drop it off at the church office during business hours, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm, Monday to Friday.
Cebu, Philippines - February 2012
Short-term Missions Team Can be an Opportunity of a Lifetime!
This short-term mission team is designed to intentionally partner with Filipinos in Cebu City, Philippines through a variety of activities.
Team members may:
Sponsor and assist in a medical / dental clinic in a community among poor families
Build a small community development center in an economically depressed area
Encourage the leaders and staff of the Stepping Stones scholarship program
Join a Filipino team to visit families and share about the grace of God in our lives.
Other activities will include:
Worshipping together with Filipino believers
Praying with and encouraging Filipino believers in their spiritual journey
Developing meaningful friendships and relationships with Filipinos
DATE: February 20 – March 6, 2012
PLACE: Cebu City, Philippines
COST: $ 3000.00 (approx.)
FACILITATOR: Ron Goshulak
CONTACT: If you are interested in this mission trip, please complete the information on the Short Term Mission trip Interest Form and Ron Goshulak will be in touch with you.
Your Response to the Famine in Africa
Circle Drive Church has a lot of special people who attend here. The famine in Africa has brought a number of them to the forefront.
Because soccer is a sport loved around the world and because just last summer South Africa was the host of the World Cup, Saskatoon Adult Soccer has decided to use the sport we all love to make a difference in the world. Over the next week, the 2900+ registered soccer players in Saskatoon will be raising pledges for goals scored. The goal is to raise $175,000 to be given to the Red Cross.
If every player gets only 3 pledges of $5/goal then we will reach our goal. Donations can be made to any registered player in the SAS. Cheques should be made out to the Red Cross. Donations can also be made at the Saskatoon Adult Soccer office at the Soccer Centre on Attridge Dr.
The Canadian government has pledged an additional 50 million in aid to help countries in East Africa cope with the crisis, and they have also stated that "each dollar Canadians give to a registered charity doing work in East Africa will be matched by the federal government through the East Africa drought relief fund. The program is retroactive to July 6 and will run until Sept. 16, after which the government will decide how to allocate the funds."
Please consider donating to a registered charity today and help double the efforts to relieve the suffering of the most vulnerable in East Africa. Also, please invite your friends to view this group.
Donate through World Vision
World Vision has been fighting hunger in the Horn of Africa for many years, and will continue to respond in the midst of this crisis. Your gift today will help provide food, clean water, agricultural support, health care, and other vital assistance to children and families in need.
Famine Early Warning System Network - East Africa Region Report
Households in pastoral and marginal cropping areas of the eastern Horn continue to be the most food insecure in East Africa. Most households in these areas are facing Crisis to Emergency (IPC Phase 3 and 4) levels of food insecurity due to a delayed and/or erratic onset of the March to May rains; significantly below-normal rains; deteriorating purchasing power; and, in some areas, limited access to markets and to humanitarian assistance.
The performance of the March to May rains in pastoral areas of the Mandera Triangle has been very poor to date, with rainfall deficits between 10 to 50 percent of normal. Consequently, there is acute scarcity of pasture, browse, and water, increased livestock clustering at water points, rapid decline of livestock productivity and value, and worsening pastoral terms of trade. Food security is likely to deteriorate to Emergency levels through September.
In the southeastern marginal cropping areas of Kenya, significantly below-normal yields are expected due to the poor performance of the March to May rains, along with major price increases starting in June/July. As most households will become market dependent, food insecurity is expected to deteriorate from Stressed to Crisis levels beginning in July.
Belg season crops have nearly failed in the belg crop-producing parts of Ethiopia, including SNNPR. In addition, production of sweet potato, a transitional crop consumed during the lean season in parts of SNNPR, failed this year. Crisis levels of food insecurity are expected to continue until the meher harvest in October.
Famine in Africa: Global mismanagement of the first order by Brian Stewart - CBC News
One of the most striking aspects of this latest famine in the Horn of Africa is the irritated, even fuming, response of so many readers and viewers to the humanitarian crisis.
A significant minority, at least, seem to feel that another round of emergency aid in East Africa is simply too much to ask for, as little there is ever likely to change.
I wish we could talk.
I don't buy such utter pessimism. But I do sympathize with the fatigue and frustrations that repeated failures to prevent such killer droughts in that part of the world have given rise to.
Famine spreads across Africa With 38 million facing starvation, "business as usual will not do" By Ernest Harsch - UN Africa Recovery
On a scale not seen in Africa in nearly two decades, famine is once again stalking the continent. According to estimates by the UN's World Food Programme (WFP), as many as 38 million Africans are living under the threat of starvation, and many will succumb if emergency relief does not reach them in time. As of mid-2002, famine conditions were concentrated mainly in Southern Africa, but by the end of the year they had emerged just as severely in the Horn of Africa, and on a lesser scale in several countries in West and Central Africa.
The United Nations declared a famine in two regions of southern Somalia amid drought and conflict that have left 3.7 million people, almost half the country’s population, in need of humanitarian assistance.
Famine exists in the Bakool and Lower Shabelle regions, Mark Bowden, the UN’s humanitarian coordinator for Somalia, told reporters in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital. The food- security crisis in the Horn of Africa nation is the worst since a famine in 1992, when 300,000 people died, according to Action Against Hunger, a New York-based humanitarian organization.
Official Famine
A famine is declared when
malnutrition rates among children exceed 30 percent;
more than two people per 10,000 die per day;
people are unable to access food and other basic necessities
Malnutrition rates in the affected areas are “extraordinarily high” and it’s likely that tens of thousands of people have died, most of them children, Bowden said.
Starcrown Global Relief is composed of a group of self-employed businessmen and women living and working in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. They have developed a number of unique fund-raising methods that will make them a major charitable resource at home and abroad.
To help other organizations financially, funds will be given on the basis of availability and highest score on our local or international scoring system.
There are two major objectives, which will be considered in every case:
Are people becoming independent?
Are root causes of poverty being dealt with?
Starcrown has projects going on in the following Countries:
Mexico
Philippines
Ecuador
Tanzania
Kenya
Haiti (2010)
Malawi (2010)
As they venture into a new country, they make contact with a well known pastor with a growing ministry. They work with this pastor establishing a Multifunction facility that will serve as a:
church on Sunday,
school during the week
work shop
soup kitchen
dormitory
guest house.
Starcrown Global Relief's (SGR) goal is to acquire enough land to allow a good sized garden so that the people can be self sufficient in food production.
The soup kitchen will serve two functions, one to provide food to the children in this and surrounding schools and to teach proper food preparation.
The dormitory will provide temporary living quarters for those in need of a place to stay.
The Guest House will allow us to bring in teachers to instruct the locals language skills, trades and health issues. It will also allow us to bring in nurses and doctors for the cost of airfare.
Starcrown Global Relief is always on the lookout for new projects at home and around the world.
The Good Food Junction is going to be the neighbourhood grocery store in Riversdale. Offering a full range of fresh produce, meats and dairy items, along with frozen foods, canned, bottled and bagged goods, health and beauty items, household cleaning supplies and more. All this at reasonable prices.
The Christian and Missionary Alliance in Canada has a strong commitment to ministry among our First Nations Alliance Churches of Canada (FNACC) that dates back nearly 30 years. At the present time there are seven First Nations churches. The Board of Directors for the C&MA in Canada and First Nations elders are committed to nurturing a meaningful relationship with each other.
$10,000 to Impact Niger
Water and Sanitation
Microeconomics
"Now my life has been transformed; I am so thankful that the church opened their group up to me!
