Community Care

Exit Community Outreach

(403) 262-9953
625 6th Ave. SE, Calgary, AB

St. Martin's youth group provides sandwiches for Exit on a 5th Sunday of the month.

Exit Community Outreach, located at 625 6th Ave. SE, is a service for street kids aged 12 to 24 years. Exit offers refuge for a few hours and provides the kids with soup and a sandwich, a shower, clothing, laundry facilities, medical and dental referrals and some counseling.

Wentworth Manor and Signal Point

St. Martin's provides spiritual care to residents of Wentworth Manor and the Signal Point Residence. The first Wednesday of every month 6 to 8 parishioners assist our rector Richard LeSueur in providing a communion service for the residents. The volunteers set up the altar and help the residents to and from the service. These volunteers also provide food and assistance at bake sales, luncheons and teas and accompany residents on bus trips.

Once a week, parishioners also volunteer in the gift shop at the Royal Park Centre and also provide donations and time for bake sales and teas. At Signal Pointe Centre, St. Martin's offers a communion service once a month.

This dedicated group of volunteers is always looking for others to join them in their ministry. Call St. Martin's office at (403) 249-3014 for further information.

CAUSE Canada "Christian Assisting Underdeveloped Societies Everywhere"

The Community Co-ordinating Committee is a committee of representatives from the communities around Sarcee Trail and 17th Avenue SW. The purpose of this committee is to assess the needs of the residents in this area and the resources available to meet these needs. St. Martin's has a representative who sits on this committee and attends the meetings every two weeks.

NeighbourLink

St. Martin's is an active member of the city-wide network of 52 congregations that participate in NeighbourLink, a program developed by World Vision Canada, that assists churches to meet the needs of their neighbours. NeighbourLink is a "framework for a community of churches to care for others in real and practical ways". It provides a central office which links people in need to appropriate volunteers from a church in their area. A few examples of the types of services provided are:

• Deliver food hampers from the Food Banks
• Provide transportation to doctors, hospital appointments etc.
• Help people move to new homes
• Take persons shopping
• Provide baby needs
• Provide yard work for the elderly or disabled

Companion Diocese of the Windward Islands

Icross Canada

PO Box 3 Saanichton, BC Canada V8M 2C3 www.icross.ca

Icross Canada has sent over five tons of medical supplies over the past four years to developing countries. Many of these shipments originally were made of glass (vials, tubes etc.). Comfort dolls have been knit in many parishes to protect this fragile cargo. The dolls are then given out to local children by the doctors and nurses working in these countries. St. Martin's has participated in knitting comfort dolls with the help of Marge Munro. If you are interested in knitting dolls (click here for the pattern), have yarn to donate or would like to donate an old bicycle (in working condition) contact the church office 249-3014.

Calgary Interfaith Food Bank

The CIFB has an ever-expanding demand for its services to feed the poor.  Members of St Martins, in concert with members of St. Barnabas, help out at the CIFB Friday mornings.  Separately, groups of St. Martins parishioners visit on other days during the week as and when the CIFB needs workers to fill in.  Besides giving back to our community, participants learn the finer points of sorting soup cans and unboxing cereal and gives us all food for thought.

Worship Times:

Sunday Mornings:
8:30am at the Chapel
3704 - 37th St. SW (MAP)
A quiet service of Holy Communion
Book of Common Prayer
10:00am at Calgary
Academy (MAP)
17th Ave & 93rd St. SW
Holy Communion & Sermon
with Contemporary Music and Youth program, Nursery and Church School

Sunday Evening Contemplative Service
(last Sunday of the month with St. Laurence)
5:00pm at St. Laurence, Lakeview
5940 Lakeview Dr. S.W. (MAP)
A contemplative-style Eucharist with one reading, a brief reflection, candle-light, some recorded chant, silence for prayer

Mid-Week:
"Wonderful Thursdays"
10:00am at the Chapel
3704 - 37th St. S.W. (MAP)
Holy Communion followed by great snacks and a discussion of scripture and life.

Miss a Sunday?
Know someone who's house-bound?
Get the Sermon on Tape
Call the office (403) 249-3014
We'll drop it off.