Our Partners and Links

Our Partners and Links

Wesley Mimico United Church – Food Bank
(https://www.wmuc.ca/) 416-546-5737 office@wmuc.ca
Wesley Mimico United Church, Suite 403 – 2405 Lakeshore Blvd W, Toronto, ON M8V 1C6

Wesley Mimico United Church food bank serves people in our local community, who are isolated by poverty, illness and cultural differences. Most are refugees or people on ODSP or Ontario Works or Pensions. Some work in precarious jobs at low wages. Because of the Pandemic we adapted our Food Bank program from in-person pick up at the church to delivery to people’s homes on a weekly basis (monthly for each family). We deliver a variety of basic foods bread (from a local bakery), pasta, canned meat and fish, breakfast cereals, canned vegetables, beans and soups, pasta sauce and tomatoes, jam & peanut butter, juice, powdered milk, sugar, rice, tea coffee, laundry detergent, soap, toothpaste & toilet paper. We also provide al $10 grocery gift card for each person. This way people can buy fresh food not handed out from the food bank. The effects of the Pandemic restrictions increased isolation for seniors and people living alone, and this has continued to this day. Thus, having a friendly call to see how you are doing and then having food delivered to your home has been extremely helpful for the people we deliver to.

Recently, there has been an influx of about 15 Ukrainian refugees and about 15 additional clients so that deliveries have increased from about 40 to over 70 per month during 2023. In addition a note of desperation has entered into some of our contacts as they face times with little or no food. The gratitude expressed by many clients is heart warming. Food Bank financial resources are challenged due to the increase in clients and the inflation induced increase in food costs. An increase in your donations to the WMUC Community Fund would help us meet this financial challenge and enable us to continue to provide help to the hungry in our midst.
– WMUC Happenings June 20, 2024, Wesley Mimico United Church (WMUC) e-newsletter

Canada Lutheran
https://canadalutheran.ca/ continues to nurture the Lutheran spirit by providing information, inspiration and interpretation of particular interest and benefit to the members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada. Published eight times a year, every issue is packed with feature articles, synod news, and explores our faith and its role in our lives and those around us.

CHLO-AM 530 Radio
https://am530.ca/ 416 233-7368 info@evanovradio.com This multilingual radio station CHLO-AM 530 runs a German language program from 8:00 am to 12:00 noon on Sundays. Martin Luther Church is featured at 9:30 am with a radio devotion live and later archived as podcast on our website. Since 1984, CHLO-AM 530 (formerly CIAO-AM) has provided quality programming to hundreds of thousands of new Canadians in Brampton and the Greater Toronto Area in a variety of languages.

Deutsche Sprachschulen (Metro Toronto) Inc.
Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic School, 32 Montgomery Road, Etobicoke, ON M8X 1Z4 https://www.dssgta.org/ Contact Mrs. Ines Henneke, Principal/Schulleiterin, 416-900-6068 The Deutsche Sprachschulen (Metro Toronto) Inc. (“DSS”) is a non-profit organization comprised of three schools within the Greater Toronto Area: Richmond Hill, Scarborough and Toronto Central West (Etobicoke).

ECULINKS Etobicoke (Ecumenical Links)
Contact: eculinksetobicoke@gmail.com Chair: Peter Patterson, Christ Church St. James Anglican Church, Vice chair: Cora Dusk, Our Lady of Sorrows Roman Catholic Church. ECULINKS Etobicoke is an informal, volunteer-driven group of social justice, faith-based people, from churches in Etobicoke. Its mission focuses on networking, information-sharing, connecting and support for church social justice programs that will lead to greater understanding and clarity around outreach and social justice issues. It encourages churches and faith-based organizations to address and confront social justice and outreach issues that are both short-term immediate need and longer-term with deeper root causes. ECULINKS meets about four or five times a year on a Friday morning to share information and discuss issues to address together and bring to the attention of our individual parishes and congregations.

Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany 
2 Bloor Street East, 25th Floor, Toronto, Ontario, M4W 1A8, Canada
416.925.2813, info@toronto.diplo.de, http://www.canada.diplo.de The German Consulate in Toronto runs various consular services to local, German, and international citizens in Canada. The Consulate supports Canadian, German and international citizens through its consular services. This includes providing information about German economy, culture and education, the requirements and process of getting German Citizenship or obtaining a German Visa.

German International School (GIST)
25 Burnhamthorpe Rd., Toronto, ON 416-922-6413, admissions@gistonline.ca, https://www.gistonline.ca/ The German International School Toronto is a private, co-educational, German immersion primary school which provides a unique environment for learning in German, English and French. Students from the GIST have participated in services to make special events like the first day of school and Christmas. They have also participated in Holocaust Education Week presentations are our church.

Holocaust Education Week
Sarah and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre, UJA Federation of Greater Toronto, The Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre, 4600 Bathurst Street, 4th floor, Toronto, ON M2R 3V2
416-631-5689, neuberger@ujafed.org, https://www.holocaustcentre.com/hewHolocaust Education Week is hosted by the Sarah and Chaim Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre. It is a week long event that generates knowledge and understanding about the Holocaust through a variety of activities for all ages. Holocaust Education Week reaches over 30, 000 community members each year in the GTA, and features lecturers and Holocaust survivors speakers. Martin Luther Church has hosted events during Holocaust Education Week over the years ever since 2017.

Lakeshore Lodge Long-Term Care Home
3197 Lake Shore Blvd W, Toronto, ON M8V 3X5 416-392-9400 Lakeshore Lodge is a long-term care home operated by the City of Toronto. The Lodge invites community churches like Martin Luther Church to convene services as part of their religious care during the week and on Sundays.

Loaves and Fishes Growing Project – Simcoe
A growing project in support of the Canadian Foodgrains Bank, located throughout South Simcoe County. The Loaves and Fishes Growing Project began in the fall of 1997 when a group of local farmers and individuals gathered at the Bond Head United Church. They made plans to grow corn, soybeans and wheat to donate to the Canadian Food Grains Bank. The biblical story of the Loaves and Fishes highlights that when a little is given to feed the hungry it is multiplied many times over. Our efforts make a difference no matter how small. This was evident once again in 2020, our project’s 23rd year. The CFGB is a Christian organization, which consists of 15-member church denominations that provide food and development assistance to people in need through the mission/relief/development agencies of the churches involved. Global hunger is on the rise due to conflict, a changing climate and now COVID-19 which makes this work even more important. Our community is incredibly generous in giving both time and resources for this cause.

Moll Berczy Haus
1020 McNicoll Avenue, 4th Floor of Tendercare Living Centre, Scarborough, Ontario M1W 2J6 416-497-3639, mollberczyhaus@yahoo.ca Moll Berczy Haus, ( https://www.tendercare.ca/tendercare/moll-berczy-haus/) was established in 1996, as Toronto’s only Residence for German Speaking Seniors, offering security, comfort and happiness to their German speaking residents. UPDATE 2024: Moll Berczy Haus is closing down. The pastors of Martin Luther Church and St. George’s Lutheran visit remaining residents in their 90s.

Camp Lutherlyn
https://www.lutherlyncamp.ca/ 909 Zadow Rd, Golden Lake, ON K0J 1X0
(613) 625-2994 Camp Lutherlyn is the place for fun summer activities such as swimming, canoeing, campfires, singing, laughing, and making wonderful memories together.