St. George’s Anglican Church Women, Ayer’s Cliff, Quebec Report for Meeting of January 2018

The ACW of St. George’s, Ayer’s Cliff, held their first meeting of the year with seven (7) members present. Regrets were received from the eighth member.

The meeting opened with prayers and a scripture reading.

This meeting is our important financial meeting as we review our events of the past year and decide on our budget for 2018.

In 2017, we had two fundraising events. A Church Yard Sale in May and a Christmas Bazaar in December. Funds from the yard sale are shared equally with the Church, while the Bazaar funds are ours to be used for Outreach programs. In 2017, we supported the local elementary school activities and Breakfast Program, gave one Student Bursary, donated to the local Christmas baskets, and packed 55 shoe boxes for the Mission to Seamen in Quebec City. Our part in the school breakfast program is every Thursday morning, having a 2 week schedule one morning serving toast, fruit, cheese, etc., and the next week is sausage and pancakes with maple syrup.

Our Budget for 2018 is interesting, as with the closing of the Diocesan ACW Executive Committee, we had more funds at our disposal to disburse. (Funds were previously sent for fees, travel, education and pledge. Pledge was used by the Executive members for outreach where they saw the need at the time.)

This year our budget is as follows: School Breakfasts, School Trips and Award, Women’s Shelter in Sherbrooke, Allison Blair (our Missionary), Pastoral Fund of Bishop’s U./champlain College, Local Food Bank, Maison Aube Lumiere (a palliative care home at the CHUS), Syrian Children’s activities (new arrivals in Sherbrooke), a local Pet Rescue Home, Local store food vouchers, a Post Secondary School Bursary. All donations are between $200 and $300 each. Not bad for a small group!

Dates for our fundraising this year were discussed: Yard Sale will be June 2nd and the Chrismas Bazaar on December 1st.

The meeting closed with a social hour of coffee, tea and sweets. Closing prayers were said in thankfulness for a profitable afternoon of planning.