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.

Thursday In-Person with the Bible – Thursdays, 10-1AM or 1-2PM
A choice of two mid-day Bible Study discussion groups. Drop in to a meeting in the boardroom. Led by Deacon Joanne

Word on Wednesday Gospel Study – Wednesdays, 7:30PM by Zoom
The Wednesday group meets online at 7:30 PM via Zoom for prayer and an informal discussion on the gospel reading. To register or for more information, please contact Jacky Bramma.

The Gospel stories may skip over much of the time between his birth and adult life, but even Jesus was a teenager once. He knew what it was like to have outgrown childish things but not yet be fully grown. It’s a period where you need guidance and support to become who you’re truly meant to be. That’s what we try to provide in our Youth Group, which has been meeting on a monthly basis for about two years since it began on Zoom during the pandemic.

We spend a lot of our time talking, and eating, just like Jesus and his disciples did. We also deepen our faith by reading Gospels and bringing some of its themes to life through games and activities that get everyone moving. We aren’t afraid to act silly occasionally. We laugh — a lot.

And of course we pray, and try to remind our teens that even in a world when they might occasionally feel alone, God is there listening and working through them.

There are about a dozen of us and we’re always open to new members aged 12 or older, and we’re excited to continue integrating our teens with other ministries and the parish community as a whole. For more information, let the office know you’re interested in connecting with leader,  Shane or Blake. .