Outreach

Community Meal 

Creating a safe, friendly and welcoming atmosphere in which to share a meal with children, youth and adults.

St. Alban's prepares an evening meal for anyone who would like to come on Tuesdays at 17:30 pm.

A dinner is provided every Tuesday from September to June for anyone who wishes to come. An average of 100 people per week are warmly welcomed and a wholesome meal with hot vegetables, salad, buns, meat or chicken and dessert is provided at no charge. Many of the guests are street people, single parents and their children, immigrants, seniors and parishioners. The meal has been funded in the past by donations from St. Alban’s and individual parishioners and also from Stewards in Action (Diocese of New Westminster). However, the Stewards in Action (S.I.A.) donations have ceased and the Community Meal committee accepts further donations from the Richmond community. Volunteers are from both inside and outside the parish.

Community Groups

St. Alban's provides a home for many small groups needing support: for instance, our kitchen is used by two groups who come for cooking.

Social Concerns

Members of the Parish are active in Primate's World Relief and Development Fund (P.W.R.D.F.) and the Fair Trade movement. Donations are made annually to Camp Artaban, the Vancouver School of Theology, and others.

A committed Social Justice Group of St. Alban's parishioners has joined together to focus on the issue of poverty and affordable housing in Richmond.  Anyone interested in joining the group, please contact the office.  The group is working in conjunction with the Poverty Response Committee of Richmond and other interested groups.

The Richmond Food Bank was started by St. Alban's. Although it is now autonomous, many St. Alban's parishioners still support the Food Bank both with their donations and volunteer hours.

Fellowship

St. Alban’s is a friendly Parish. Active participation and social contact are encouraged at the coffee hour following the 10:00 service. Volunteers organize and rotate serving at these occasions.

Seniors Support Team

You are warmly invited to join the ‘Circle of Prayer’ wherever you are. A group of us will meet in the Margaret Morgan Lounge at St. Alban’s each Wednesday from 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm.  Every week - same day, same time - we’ll bow our heads, drink in silence, and become the body of Christ together. No matter where we are – the Lounge, at work, at home, in hospital, or at school. We will be calling our ‘Senior Seniors’ a half-hour before beginning our prayer to remind them of this opportunity to be together in prayer, to deepen our spiritual lives and support one another and the needs of others within our parish and our world. For more information, contact the church office.

After much discussion and brain-storming, the Group has discerned a way that will bring people of all ages together, including our ‘Senior Seniors’ - those shut-in or in hospital or nursing homes. On a regular basis, we put on a Seniors' Tea, usually on Friday afternoons, complete with entertainment provided by church members.

A second group has undertaken to keep in touch with housebound seniors, providing transportation and making visits on a regular basis.

Extreme Weather Shelter

When the City of Richmond decides that the weather is too extreme for people to be outside all night, one or more of the following shelters will be opened:

To find out if a shelter is open, please contact:

Salvation Army's Richmond House

604-276-2490 

Richmond Hospital Emergency Room - Social Workers

604-278-9711 or 604-660-4927 (after hours)

Chimo Crisis Services

604-279-7070

Touchstone Family Association

604-279-5599

Vancouver Airport Chaplaincy

604-303-3010

RCMP

604-278-1212


Extreme Weather Shelters are available generally between 21:00 and 7:00 am.


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