Cookies to Champagne
“From Cookies to Champagne: 50 CAFE Events” is a fun way to celebrate PWRDF’s 50th anniversary in your parish or diocese, raise awareness of PWRDF’s work, educate about the issues PWRDF partners are working to address, and fundraise! Perhaps your church school can bake cookies and host a PWRDF focused coffee hour. Your youth group might hold a pizza party. A diocese might plan a celebration dinner, or parish might like to have a potluck lunch after church. The possibilities are endless! Each Ecclesiastical Province is asked to hold 50 events. We’ll be keeping track of all of them on this page, so be sure to check back regularly to see what is being planned in your area, and to see stories and photos of events that have already been held. For help with planning your own event, you can order our Event Planning Kit by contacting Jennifer Brown, PWRDF Donor Relations Officer, at 416-924-9199 ext 320 or jbrown@pwrdf.org . View the contents of the planning kit here.
September 11, 2008
It is always a good time to say thank you and to give recognition to those who contribute to the life of their community. So it was not a difficult decision to make. The Montreal Unit of the Primate's World Relief and Development Fund realized that they wanted to begin the 2008-2009 season with a dinner to honour those of its past and to launch the Unit into the next fifty years.
The ACW ladies of St Mary's Anglican Church, Cow Head (the Northern tip of the Gros Morne National Park), in the Diocese of Western Newfoundland started collecting pennies for PWRDF a year ago this month. On Monday, March 9 it was like pennies from heaven, when the ladies started arriving loaded down with buckets, boxes and bags of pennies. The atmosphere was alive with laughter and joy as the two teams started to add up the rolled pennies. Last year, when we decided to have two teams challenge each other..
Archdeadon Charlene Taylor is a brave woman. She recently wrote to tell us about a youth challenge that took place at St Andrew's church in the Parish of Lake Melville, in Happy Valley Goose Bay, Labrador.
Six years ago, the small town parish of St George's in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, was facing closure. It has found new life in community activities and outreach. On April 27, Beth Baskin from PWRDF visited to share stories of PWRDF's work and to hear about the parish's plans to celebrate PWRDF's 50th anniversary.
The "Songs and Stories of Hope" concert held at St Paul's Church, Charlottetown on June 6, was by all reports a huge success. Over 130 people enjoyed a piano and stories blend presented by Tim Elliott and Judy Maddren, and an amazing $1400.00 was raised for PWRDF partners. View photos
Below is a message from Cheryl Curtis, PWRDF Executive Director, written for the occasion.
