When word got out that St. Thomas Anglican Church in Winnipeg’s Weston-area needed money for a new roof, the first donation came from a man who depends on it each week for food.
“It was some pocket change,” said Cassandra Golondrina, the deacon who leads the church. “It was like the widow’s mite in the Bible, small but so very significant.”
It’s going to take a lot of pocket change to repair the roof of the church, which was built in 1906. In total, $50,000 is needed.
The roof is failing, and there is a risk of long-term structural harm if it isn’t repaired—which might force the church to close. And that would be bad news for the more than 300 people in the lower-income neighbourhood who get a home-cooked meal from the church every week.
About 60,000 meals have been prepared and served by volunteers who work out of the parish hall since the meal program began in 2019.
Read my story about this remarkable church of 15-20 regular attenders
in the Free Press.
Photo above: Deacon Cassandra Golondrina stands in the food pantry beneath a hole in the ceiling due to a leaky roof.
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