A Safe Place Woodbine Heights Baptist Church

A Safe Place
1171 Woodbine Avenue  (map)
Toronto ON M4C 4E1
Pastor: 416-467-1462
Parish Nurse: 416-467-8987
woodbineheights@gmail.com
Our Mission:

To celebrate, proclaim and reflect Christ's Love

To live in our community and welcome its diversity

To worship as a people set free by God's Grace
  
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Gatherings:

Sunday service and children's church at 11:00 a.m. - Sundays July and August 10:00 a.m.

Weekly and Monthly
• Mid-week study, reflection
• Joyful Heights rehearsal
• Good Food Box
• Parents of Preschoolers
• Groups for children
• Daily Bread Food Bank
• Educational forums
• Parish Nurse Clinic

Throughout the Year
• International Dinner
and Variety Show
• Christmas Concert
• Healing, meditation services
• Gardening Day
• Picnic for Children's Church
• Welcome Back Barbecue
• Fundraising Dinners
• Special events
Welcome to
Woodbine Heights Baptist Church!

We are pleased that you have found Woodbine Heights Baptist Church (WHBC) on the world wide web.  We'd be even more pleased to greet you in person as we gather for worship, study, service and camaraderie at the corner of Woodbine and Sammon in East York. Our congregation takes seriously the call of God through Jesus to be present with and for our community. Our facility is constantly filled with activity, whether it be WHBC events or community group activities. Some of the activities include a neighbourhood Food Bank, a Pastoral Counselling Education Group, Brownies, and a weekly Tuesday drop-in and hot lunch. 

We are a congregation more interested in struggling honestly with the questions of life than dictating easy answers. We take the scriptures seriously without reading them literally, and value God's creation and our human lives and relationships as ways of experiencing God's presence in the world.  Among our small gathering are people from a variety of religious, ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds. We seek to be a people of inclusion and embrace, welcoming all persons who wish to be part of a community seeking and practicing faith in life.

Please join us on Sunday mornings at 11 o'clock for a time of reflective worship. Or if you prefer to connect individually with the pastor or parish nurse give us a call at 416-467-8987. You can also email further inquiries to woodbineheights@gmail.com.

We hope to engage with you soon.

Sincerely,
bob paterson-watt, pastor
Coming Up ...

WHBC Mission Project and Training
 Our congregational mission project for 2012 is in partnership with the Asia Pacific Baptist Peace Network.  For detailed information about this work, click  here.  In support of this project, a spring training opportunity is being offered by Lee McKenna through Partera.  Download a poster or a bulletin insert here and spread the news.  Thanks for your interest in this important and faithful work.  

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Look up, way up! On the south side of our church roof, Down to Earth Solar has installed a shiny and lively Solar Array, now generating electricity flowing into the local neighbourhood grid (see picture here). Visit their website for more information about how you can do the same. 

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Community Dinner Our once-a-month evening meals on the THIRD THURSDAY of the month filled the neighbourhood with savoury aroma, flavour and relationships.  Join us on Thursday May 17th. Doors open at 6:25, the meal begins at 6:30 p.m.  Gather with neighbours for a time of hearty, healthy food and interaction.
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Soup'n'bread  Our next Soup'n'Bread lunch follows worship on Sunday, June 3rd.  Gather for worship, share a time of communion, and continue our time of communal camaraderie over a nourishing feed.  You are most welcome for any and/or all of this!