Hampton Helps
Yellow Ribbon for the Ukraine
Thanks to everyone who donated items for our “Hampton Helps – Yellow Ribbon for Ukraine” initiative on Sunday, March 13/22. Special thanks to the Hampton Community, and also Bethesda House in Bowmanville.
We are blessed to live in an area that is so generous to give to others in need as you can see from the below photo taken of all that was brought in.
This list was compiled for your information, as people feel more comfortable giving their support through different agencies, we therefore gathered a wide range of possibilities with different payment options, as available.
Thank you for supporting our mission for the people of the Ukraine, give as you are able.
God Bless
Hampton Helps Committee
Yellow Ribbon for the Ukraine
Mitten Tree Service
We have a “Mitten Tree” Service every year in December, check calendar for next date. It is often combined with the “White Gift” Service presented by the Sunday School.
Everyone brings to church new mittens, scarves, hats and toques (purchased or hand-made). During children’s time, everyone files forward and the fun process begins to decorate an empty Christmas tree from top to bottom. The church is filled with lots of joy and laughter as everyone looks for that perfect spot to display their mittens.
Up to 2018 the mittens were boxed up for the Northern Outreach Group to include in our Christmas outreach to First Nations reserves.
2019 The Mitten Tree donations were delivered to the Durham Children’s Aid Society.
Northern Outreach Ministry
The Northern Outreach which provided knitted goods to Indigenous communities in the Northwest Territories will be ceasing as of November 1st, 2019.
Thank you to Jessie Crowells and Sally Charette who began this ministry and to all who supported or participated in it over the years.
History
Use to met Wednesday afternoons at 1:00 pm in the Hampton U.C., C.E. Wing (September – July).
Their mission: to knit mitts, scarves, and toques which were shipped to First Nation reserves.
They also collected new clothing donations for distribution with the knitting.
Thanks in part to relationships that they’d formed with people in other communities interested in our outreach they had more boxes of donations coming in than they could send out.
While maintaining our core focus on supporting Indigenous communities they also began sending materials to other groups. In 2018 they sent…
- hats and mittens to the Cornerstone Community Association of Durham. A shelter that works to provide a place of transition for homeless people to work through crisis, find affordable housing and the support they need to become independent.
- blankets, hats, and baby clothes to the Cornerstone Family Violence Prevention Centre in Cobourg. A short-term women’s shelter that in additionato providing temporary housing, counselling, information and connections to local resources.
- a doll with several handknitted outfits to Calvary Baptist for a young girl with a physical disability.
- hats, mitts, blankets, baby clothes, hygiene kits, etc. to the Backdoor Mission in Oshawa. The Back Door Mission for the Relief of poverty works to help relieve the burdens of poverty and social dislocation within the economically deprived and street population of Oshawa. It began as an outreach of Simcoe Street United Church in 1998. Currently they serve the needs of about 120 people a day.
In 2018 they went to Northwest Territories communities outside of Yellowknife, some accessible only by plane. The communties were: Fort Good Hope, Colville Lake, Delne, Fort Simpson, Gameti, Wekweti, Fort Providence, Behchoko, Ndilo, Dettah, Lutselk’e, Fort Smith, and Hay River.
Hampton United Church 