All Saints is journeying on a two-year mission action plan (MAP) to strive and to lean more intentionally into parish strengths and growth areas.

• Sharing Who We Are
• Welcoming Others
• Serving Others
• Growing In Faith

These areas were identified by a parish-wide planning meeting in the spring of 2024. It was a wildly constructive meeting  for generating ideas and discerning the will and direction of the church. See the infographic below that shows the four primary growth areas, broken out into 2-3 general focus objectives. The general focuses were further broken down into specific target action items (not shown here). As the fall programming year begins, we can look forward to updates on the progress that has been made so far and what area objectives will be priorities for year one of the MAP implementation.

If there are areas that intrigue you and/or you feel called to support the MAP, contact Mthr Jennifer. She can advise on specific targeted action items that All Saints needs your help to achieve.

All Saints is now using new email addresses. Please update your records, as needed, with the following contact information: 

To send e-transfers, please use office@nullallsaintswhitby.org 

• Mother Jennifer priest@nullallsaintswhitby.org
• Sharon/Office office@nullallsaintswhitby.org
• Father Geoff frgeoff@nullallsaintswhitby.org
• Deacon Joanne deaconjoanne@nullallsaintswhitby.org
• Adriaan/Choir  music@nullallsaintswhitby.org
• Treasurer Sheila treasurer@nullallsaintswhitby.org
• HR Warden Kelly hrwarden@nullallsaintswhitby.org
• Finance Warden Jody financewarden@nullallsaintswhitby.org
• Community Warden Nancy communitywarden@nullallsaintswhitby.org
• Property Warden George propertywarden@nullallsaintswhitby.org
• Stewardship Linda stewardship@nullallsaintswhitby.org
• Screening Tim screening@nullallsaintswhitby.org

On any given Sunday in the year, you can make a donation for fresh flowers in memory or thanksgiving of someone or something. The flowers will be used to decorate the chancel, and the loved one or the milestone occasion will be named in the prayers of the people and printed in the bulletin on the chosen Sunday.

You can also make a memorial or thanksgiving  donation in lieu of flowers on any occasion and designate the funds for an ongoing ministry or fund (e.g., accessibility fund, children’s ministry, Christmas hampers fund, pastoral care ministry, etc.). Such gifts from the heart will also be recognized in the prayers of the people and the service bulletin.

Please contact Sharon by email (office@nullallsaintswhitby.org) no later than the Wednesday before the Sunday you wish any dedication to appear. In your message, please indicate the amount of your donation, your envelope number (if applicable), the name of the loved one being memorialized, and the name(s) of those making the donation.

2025

Blessing of the Garden Sunday

Scenes from Sunday past, after the 9:30 service, when folks met outside to bless this season’s foodbank garden and to plant pollinator flowers to attract butterflies & other insects to help our vegetable plants grow.

A Collect for Gardens
Lord of the harvest,
make us faithful stewards in the labour you have called us to share,
planting and cultivating, planning and protecting,
and offering to you the return that you require,
through our Saviour, Jesus Christ,
and in the power of the Holy Spirit,
now and for ever. Amen.

All Saints Community Garden provides fresh produce to the Deacon’s Cupboard Food Bank, , and this week it’s shaking off winter and embracing the arrival of summer. We are now looking for volunteers for summer watering and harvesting shifts. Students needing volunteer hours are welcome as are neighbours and friends that enjoy gardening.

Committee: Isabelle Beaudet, Janet Finlay, Anoop James

2023

See below for the images of activity in the garden in the 2023 season.
Photo credit: volunteer and photographer, Kyle Mann.

A bounty of tomatoes for the foodbank.

A new crop this year is kohlrabi.

The cucumbers are just getting started.

2nd crop of radishes benefitting from the rain.

Three Sisters garden of corn, beans & squash.

Thank you to our volunteers

Kyle Mann, gardener/photographer

2021

Learn more about the garden and how it grows with the past news and images …

Approaching the Final Harvest Video (September 8, 2021):

Other News:

We were so pleased that the All Saints Community Garden was featured in the Summer, 2021 issue of Dig This, a publication of the Durham Integrated Growers.

Garden Facts:

• Growing Surface Area = 400 Square Feet
• Soil and Compost delivered and transferred = 16 cubic yards
• Volunteer hours to prepare beds and complete planting = 65 hours
• Number of different types of vegetables and herbs planted = 20
• Number of tomato varieties = 6
• Monetary value of raised boxes = $1550
• Surface area of landscape fabric = 300 square feet

Garden Spring Video (updated June 12):

Blessing of the Garden:

Eternal Father, maker of heaven and earth, we bless you and give you glory for all the gifts you have given us. Receive all we offer you this day. Bless these seeds, and make them fruitful. Look upon our work this season, and grant that the seeds we plant will produce plentiful crops, providing food and work for many. In your love, give us favorable weather throughout this growing season. Make us truly grateful for all our gifts, and willing to share our goods and talents with others, especially those without adequate food. All praise and glory are yours, almighty Father, through your Son Jesus Christ, In the unity of the Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.