Pray this simple prayer each day: “God, give me the boldness to proclaim the gospel like I’ve never had before. Give me an opportunity to share Christ with someone.”
Chalk messages on your driveway or sidewalk to encourage neighbours that walk by.
Share on Facebook, Instagram and social media your needs and ideas. Like and comment to encourage others.
Order take-out to support local restaurants.
Wash your hands regularly and thoroughly, practice social distancing, and if you have symptoms of fever or infection stay home and seek medical advice.
Continue to pray for your street regularly through prayer walks, prayer drive, praying from your backyard, or finger prayer using your map app.
Leave a note of encouragement for your local postman or drop notes in your neighbours’ front door offering practical help.
Make a list of all the people you’ve wanted to catch up with and haven’t, and then call or message them to check in on how they’re doing.
Buy from local bakeries.
Wash your hands regularly and thoroughly, practice social distancing, and if you have symptoms of fever or infection stay home and seek medical advice.
Text and offer to pray for your neighbours.
Deliver gifts (hampers, toilet paper, bouquets, cookies) to your neighbours’ doorsteps.
Host a virtual dinner party using video conferencing. Everyone can share about the dish the made.
Buy from local greengrocers.
Wash your hands regularly and thoroughly, practice social distancing, and if you have symptoms of fever or infection stay home and seek medical advice.
If you know of Christians on your street, connect with them and host a front yard prayer meeting! Appropriately distanced and be creative!
Set up a “For Free” table outside your home filled with items like toilet paper, non-perishables for people to take freely as they need.
Use WhatsApp, WeChat messaging apps to share your needs, ideas, and encouragement!
Offer to do the shopping for your elderly neighbours!
Wash your hands regularly and thoroughly, practice social distancing, and if you have symptoms of fever or infection stay home and seek medical advice.
Wash Feet News
- We have donated $20,000 to MacKenzie Health, $15,000 to Food Bank, $15,000 to Scarborough Health Network, 15,500 masks to 4 hospitals and a Geriatric Centre within GTA. We will continue to support the different needs of the community through our Benevolence Fund. Please continue to give. And also, remember to do your regular tithe!
- Funds used to support the needs of the community are drawn from the Benevolence Fund. If you would like to help the community during this time of hardship, please give to the Benevolence Fund.
We are continuing to make masks, gowns, and surgical caps for the Community. So far we have distributed over 1700 hand sewn Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to the following:
- Bethany Lodge
- L’Arche Daybreak
- Markham Stouffville Hospital
- Mon Sheong Long Term Care Centre
- Richmond Hill Ecumenical Homes Corp
- St. Michael’s Hospital
- Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
- Tender Care Living Centre
- Toronto Cathay Lions Club
- Toronto Paramedic
- Toronto Public Health Nurses
- Willowdale Manor
- Women’s College Hospital
- Women’s Shelter in Richmond Hill
- Yee Hong Centre for Geriatric Care
- Yellow Brick House
We are recruiting sewers (with experience) and looking for donations of the following:
- New 100% cotton bed sheets
- Elastics, any colour (for masks)
- Thread, any colour
Please go to I Can Help and fill in the form if you can sew or have materials to donate. We will contact you for further details.
Pray for Your Street
Wash Feet: Pray for your street
In times of fear, we see the unique opportunity to love and share the hope of Jesus Christ. Therefore, RHCCC will “Wash Hands & Wash Feet”. We will wash hands as we take precautionary measures out of love, we will wash feet as we serve our community out of love. We encourage every church family to wash hands and wash feet.
Here is one way you can “wash feet”: pray for the street you live on. God has placed you at your residence for a special purpose – you are the light on your street! When every church family bless and pray for your own street, the city will be transformed.
Pray these 4 things on your street:
Pray for Protection
Begin your prayer walk by proclaiming Psalm 91. Pray for safety and physical health for your neighbours. Pray for emotional, physical and spiritual healing. Pray for fear to be removed from your street as Jesus comforts and give peace to those who live there.
Reveal God’s Love
Pray for divine opportunities to show God’s love and care to those who live, work and play on that street. Ask for creativity to serve your street – even amidst the priority to do social distancing.
Announce the Kingdom
Pray that God would open spiritual doors for you to share the Good News of Jesus Christ. Pray that God’s kingdom would come to your street.
Yield to God & Bless Your Street
Submit everything to God in faith. Pray for God to bless each person, each family, each marriage and each child with God’s peace. Pray that a spirit of hope would replace the sense of hopelessness.
Encouragement Cards
Over the past 7 weeks, our church families have created encouragement cards for our Frontline Workers (Medical Health Workers, Supermarket Workers, Restaurant Workers). These cards have been collected and put them together as booklets and posters. They will be delivered to our frontline community along with our hand sewn masks and prayers of blessings.
