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Ministry

Sunday School

The Sunday School meets in the Church lower hall on Sunday mornings during the regular service. The children take part in the beginning of the service, listen to a Children’s Story, and then proceed downstairs with their teachers.

Nursery is also available for children too young to attend Sunday School.

Christina Mills Presbyterian Women

Any women who feel the need of Christian fellowship are invited to join this group. A warm welcome awaits you.

The ladies conduct a variety of activities such as: Bible study, cleaning bees, ushering, helping with Christmas hampers, decorating the church for Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter, and taking their turn preparing the Fellowship Luncheon after the church service the last Sunday of the month.

Presbyterian Men

The Men’s Group meets in the Church basement usually the third Friday of each month (except July and August) at 6:30 p.m. for supper and an evening of fellowship consisting of speakers, games and/or discussions. The men take turns preparing the meal.

The group also sponsors a June picnic and at least one special supper per year.

Mission & Outreach Committee

This group makes around 900 pails of soup for a lunch program for local school children. Christmas hampers are made and distributed, bringing help to dozens of families in the community. “Shoeboxes” full of things for girls & boys are prepared and shipped to foreign countries. Layettes for newborn babies are prepared and distributed to new mothers through Family Futures. Many other activities assist people both within and outside the church family.

Soup Pot

“Jesus said to him, ‘Feed my sheep’” John 21:17

The Mission Statement of St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church says in part “… to declare the Gospel of Jesus Christ in word and deed.” As one way to accomplish this by action, St. Paul’s has been involved in a significant outreach program in support of hungry children at schools mainly in the East Flat area of Prince Albert for more than 10 years. It is a program that begins with the assumption that it is better to equip people to help themselves than to simply provide the necessities of life. To that end this outreach program has worked to help schools keep children attending regularly, thereby helping to reduce illiteracy, school drop outs, and subsequent poverty.
Children do not attend school regularly and do not learn effectively if they are hungry and worried about where their next meal is coming from. St. Paul’s Soup Pot committee works together to cook and provide emergency meals for families who are having temporary hunger problems. Once a month a group of committee members meets to prepare, cook and deliver delicious meals of homemade soup, chili, stew, meat pies, etc. The ingredients are provided in the main by members of St. Paul’s congregation. The committee distributes the meals to Riverside Community School and Prince Charles School, and their freezers are filled. Hungry children are given hot lunch and their parents are provided with an evening meal for the whole family. In this way, children are encouraged to come to school and the families tend to view the school and the church as positive and caring places.
This program also extends to providing Christmas hampers each year to approximately 40 families identified by the school system. This program is supported by the staff and inmates of the P.A. Correctional Centre, Pine Grove Correctional Centre and Riverside Community School Association as well as the members of St. Paul’s.
The Soup Pot Committee serves an area of about 1,200 families whose children attend the public schools in the East Flat. Requests have come from other schools in Prince Albert for their assistance because there is no other organization doing this work and the value of it is highly significant in terms of preventing generational poverty.
Feel free to drop in on a soup-making day and lend a hand with the preparation or delivery of some of the soups and stews. The more the merrier.