Saturday Night Suppers
In 1998, at 50 Quebec Street, a small and dedicated group from Chalmers United Church started a food pantry serving non-perishable food items. Soon they began to serve hot meals on Saturday nights. In 2006 the food pantry expanded to become Chalmers Community Services Centre, run by Royal City Mission.
Guelph churches and faith groups provide nourishing meals for the needy. Water Street Church volunteers regularly cook and provide homecooked meals on Saturday nights to as many as 150 visitors. Lisa, our coordinator, sees to it that plentiful warm and nutritious menu items are delivered to the Mission on our designated Saturdays. We are grateful for her faithful volunteering!
Thank you from Chalmers Food Pantry
Dear Water Street Church,
Thank you for your generous donation of 633.9 lb. of food to our pantry at Chalmers. Your donation made a big impact in 2024. It enabled us to continue to offer a wide variety of high quality food to our Chalmers Guests. In 2024, we gave out 21,249 food baskets and the need continues to grow. Sixty percent of our guests are children. All of our guests are extremely grateful to all of our donors. Without you, it would be extremely hard to continue to serve those who are experiencing food insecurity.
Chalmers is extremely grateful for your support. Your generosity directly helps us to continue our mission of creating a community, without poverty, where people flourish with dignity and respect.
With gratitude,
Crystle Avery, Executive Director, Chalmers Centre
GEMS girls helping out
Our GEMS girls get involved in packing bags of necessities (plus coffee and candy!) to be given at Chalmers and distributed to those in need. Passing on the blessings….. Annual year’s fundraiser: chocolate bars for Christmas!
Prayer Shawl Ministry
Our prayer shawl ministry reaches out to those in need of comfort and belonging, praying for those in our church community and for those in the community around us.
Christmas Parcels
Each year the WSC ladies study group participates in the Christmas Parcels Ministry to Seafarers. Seafarers who visit the port of Montreal during the Christmas season receive these small gifts by M2S. Lots of information on the M2S site if you want to know more about this ministry.
Stewarding God’s Creation
Clarence and Barb volunteered for many years to maintain and keep the gardens at Water Street Church beautiful. Here they put the gardens to bed this fall. Thank you to these faithful workers in His kingdom! Heidi has now taken on the task of keeping our church grounds beautiful