Bring what you love • Come as you are
You already have something worth sharing. Find the invitation that makes you think, “I’d love to do that.”
Create
Music, crafts, flowers, and technology
Care
Meals, hampers, and practical support
Connect
Welcome, coffee, children, and friendship
Grow
Faith, learning, worship, and creation care
Come once, help for an hour, learn alongside someone experienced, or simply ask a question. You do not need special training, and you are never signing up forever.
Follow your spark
Every one of these ministries is made possible by ordinary people sharing a little time, care, creativity, or curiosity.
Worship & care
Strathhaven Monthly Service
Jeffrey Martin and Robert Benz lead a warm, lay-led service for residents, with a reflection, prayers, and the singing of familiar hymns.
Third Sunday of every month
Strathhaven Long-Term Care, Bowmanville
Jeffrey Martin and Robert Benz
Worship
Music Ministry
Singers and instrumentalists help fill our worship with music. There is room for choir members, soloists, and musicians who would like to share their gifts.
Sunday services and special celebrations
Sharon Kosloski
Making & caring
Community Corner
Our crafters tie quilts and knit or crochet prayer shawls, lapghans, prayer squares, toques, and scarves for neighbours, new babies, people facing difficult times, and seafarers far from home.
Tuesdays in fall and spring
Eliana Wheeler
Worship
Readers & Intercessors
Parishioners take turns bringing scripture and the prayers of the people to life during Sunday worship. New voices are always welcome.
Sunday services
Rev. Lucia Lloyd
Community care
Saturday Soul Supper
Volunteers welcome, serve, and clean up as we offer a free, nourishing hot meal with friendship and dignity to anyone in our community.
Every Saturday, 4:30–6:00 p.m.
Cale Nicholson
Worship
Chancel Guild
This caring team chooses flowers for the sanctuary and prepares the altar for communion, helping make worship beautiful and welcoming.
Shared rotation
Mary Tillcock
Tech & creativity
Digital Ministry
Our projection, video, livestream, and YouTube volunteers help people worship from the church and from home. Training and support are available.
Sunday services
Jeffrey Martin and Paula Peters
Community care
Christmas Hamper Team
Together we provide local families with a turkey, festive meal fixings, and groceries to help carry them through the winter school break.
Christmas season
Jen Ball
Welcome & friendship
Migrant Worker Ministry
We host dinners and fiestas for local migrant workers and gather food and practical supplies, building friendship with neighbours who are far from home.
Throughout the growing season
Williette Gardner
Growing in faith
Children & Youth
Children explore faith, the Bible, worship, and loving our neighbours through interactive and creative activities during the 10:30 service. Volunteers help make it happen.
Sundays, September through May
Cathie McCabe
Growing in faith
Bible Study & Learning
Weekly Bible study, discussion groups, and special series create room to ask questions and explore biblical, theological, ecological, social, racial, Indigenous, and spiritual topics.
Weekly and seasonal gatherings
Rev. Carol Langley and Rev. Lucia Lloyd
Hospitality
Welcome Team
Sidespeople offer a friendly welcome, help people find their way, guide communion, receive the offering, and make Sunday mornings feel easy and hospitable.
Sunday services
Rev. Lucia Lloyd
Food & friendship
Coffee Hour Hospitality
Cookie bakers, snack makers, and setup helpers turn the parish hall into a relaxed place to catch up, meet someone new, and linger together.
Sundays after the 10:30 service
Sharon Kosloski
Creation care
Gardens & Grounds
Gardeners and outdoor helpers care for our flowers, shrubs, leaves, and grounds so our corner of Bowmanville feels loved and inviting.
Seasonal work days
Williette Gardner and Cathie McCabe
Your thing might not be listed yet—and that could be how something wonderful begins. Tell us what you enjoy or what our community needs.
