2016 Annual Report

Table of Contents

Report Name Page

Pastoral Letter to Congregation 3In Memoriam and Congregational Statistics 5Directory of Officers & Staff 62016 Annual Meeting Minutes 7SPEU Extraordinary Congregational Meeting Sept 18 12

Special Congregational Meeting October 16 15

Pastoral Care 16

Outreach 16

Syrian Family 18

Mission and Service 19

Open Table21Elders and Life Elders 21Report from Council22Ministry & Personnel Report23Property Report24Partnership Activities-SPEUC and Odawa 25MPSF Proposal for SPEUC 28

Worship Report29Choir Report 33

Christian Development33Evergreens Report & Financial Statement35Presbytery36Board of Trustees Report37 SPEU Information Report for 2016 Operations 42

2017 Proposed Operating Budget 43

SPEU Financial Statements 44

Appendix A: MPSF Viability Analysis Report 50

Appendix B: SPEU Five Year Overview 59

PASTORAL LETTER for 2016 ANNUAL REPORT

During this past year our Council made the commitment to engage with the Mission per Square Foot Project (MPSF) to explore how we could continue make our church more fully engaged in work that would improve the lives of people in our neighbourhood. At a workshop held in October after worship, Andrew Hurrell tried to help us define what our passion was? Now generally we are a reserved and deeply thoughtful people, and so this generated a few uncomfortable smiles as we wondered what were folks passionate about? Of course that word passion has a variety of meanings, but I surmise that this is the definition that Andrew was working with: passion: intense, driving, or overmastering feeling or conviction