Agape Table is an independent, charitable, non-profit organization dedicated to feeding our city's most vulnerable people.
At the heart of our mission is a commitment to dignity, respect, compassion, and joy for every guest we serve. Our dedicated staff play a vital role in all we do, and we honour their contributions by providing a living wage and fostering a workplace built on grace and respect.
Volunteers are the lifeblood of Agape Table, bringing our vision to life through meaningful community engagement. Their efforts, alongside the generosity of our donors, create a strong foundation for our work. We remain transparent in how donations are used and ensure every charitable dollar is spent wisely.
Collaboration is key - no organization can tackle these challenges alone. When possible, we proudly partner with other organizations in Winnipeg to better serve those in need.
Strong governance and fiscal responsibility guide us. Our Board of Directors takes its fiduciary responsibility seriously, recognizing that operating effectively is essential to sustaining current services and exploring future opportunities.
Our Mission: Agape Table enhances the lives of those in need by welcoming everyone to our table, without judgment or bias, offering food, fellowship and support.
Food served: Monday - Friday 7 am - 11 am
Food Bank Program: Tuesday and Thursday 12 pm - 2 pm
Donation Drop off: Monday - Thursday 7 am - 2 pm; Friday 7 am - 1 pm
Our role at St. Andrews:
Souper Sunday -for many years, Souper Sunday has not only been looked forward to because of all the amazing homemade soups we get to taste, but because the collection from this event is donated to Agape Table to help them fulfill their mission.
Monthly volunteering: Since early 2023, St. Andrew's volunteers have attended at Agape Table once a month from September through June assisting with chopping vegetables for soup, assembling and wrapping the sandwiches and pastries, filling soup cups with delicious homemade soup, assembling the lunch bags to be handed to the guests, and generally filling in wherever needed. We have been part of ensuring anywhere between 600 and 1000 guests receive a healthy and tasty meal. For some, this will be the only meal of the day. We are both humbled and blessed to be a part of such a wonderful and caring community!
Our volunteer dates this fall are: Friday, September 26, Friday, October 24, Friday, November 21 and Friday, December 19.
Exciting news: Agape Table currently has use of the basement space in a church on Furby Street north of Portage Avenue and is able to hand out bag lunches at the door. Construction of their own dedicated building is well underway, just steps from the church that they currently utilize. This new facility will allow them to expand their programming, and be operational 7 days a week - hunger doesn't take the weekend off!
Contact at St. Andrew's: Laura Ryback
This project initiated last year examines closely our Church community’s understanding of the impact of climate change has on our environment in the parish of St Andrew’s. We have initiated a few small steps towards reducing our carbon footprint in the protection of the Earth, God’s creation. Utilizing less plastic – no plastic ups for water cooler, recyclables/compostable utensils, containers when able, some lighting has been changed to LED. We are working together with the Diocese of Rupert’s Land and assessing our needs with a Christian based environmental organization AROCHA to continue to forge to be greener. As God’s servants here it is a part of our responsibility to engage in ways that protect our habitat and show our leadership in this direction. We are taking a step forward this fall with a 100 mile dinner representing our sustainability with local area foods and companionship within our church group. We welcome any questions or feedback on this adventure creating a greener living space in the church community and home.
Contact at St. Andrew’s: Lisa Sears
PWRDF is all about partnerships. In fact, the former Primate, Archbishop Fred Hiltz, used to say the “P” in PWRDF could have easily stood for partners.
- We partner with local organizations who carry out the work that you support – life-giving work that improves food security, champions gender rights, provides training on conservation agriculture, and creates income opportunities.
- We partner with membership organizations that allow us to be part of a larger network. These include the Anglican Alliance, the ACT Alliance, the Canadian Foodgrains Bank, KAIROS, Cooperation Canada, among others.
- We partner with funding agencies including Global Affairs Canada, businesses and growing number of private and family foundations.
- We partner with the Anglican Church of Canada, Anglican Dioceses, spiritual ministries and ecclesiastical provinces, through their bishops and their PWRDF Representatives, who support our programs and invite us to spread the good news of PWRDF at synods and other meetings.
- We partner with parish representatives, clergy and countless volunteers in the pews across the country, who share our stories and engage others in our work.
- We partner with our generous donors, without whose support none of our partners’ work would be possible.
This theme of partnership or accompaniment is woven throughout the Bible, but the task team was drawn to the story of the road to Emmaus, still grieving their loss. As Luke writes, the resurrected Jesus cam alongside them, but they did not know it was him. Jesus travelled with them and then accepted their hospitality to dine with them. In the breaking of bread, their eyes were opened and they recognized him. When we walk alongside one another, Jesus accompanies us. We are strengthened and comforted and recognize Jesus when we share in his feast.
As we walk alongside each of our partners, supporting, listening and sharing with one another, we embrace and embody the hope of a better world. Thus, was born our new name:
Alongside Hope: Anglicans and partners working for change in Canada and around the world
Alongside Hope conveys the concept of partnership in a simple and uplifting way.
- It is easy to understand and pronounce
- It requires no lengthy or clumsy acronym
- It de-emphasizes the colonial, top-down approach of giving and emphasizes a more collaborative approach.
- It is a name that will carry us forward into the future.
You’ll note our new name pairs well with our existing icon.
Contact at St. Andrew’s: Lynne Spiring-Whitten
Christmas Cheer Board
CHRISTMAS CHEER BOARD
With tradition of giving for over 100 years, the Christmas Cheer Board remains a community-driven and grass-roots team that delivers food, toys, and cheer to people in need.
The Christmas Cheer Board is non-denominational, supporting families across all cultures and beliefs.
Feed-A-Family Program
The Feed-A-Family Program allows a person, a business or an organization to provide a hamper or hampers to a low-income family or families in need during the month of December. You choose how many families and what size of family you wish to sponsor.
This program opens in October/November of each year, with Hamper Applications opening in November. The earlier in the process that you apply for Families to sponsor, the easier it is to specify family size, locations to deliver, even time of day to deliver.
Applications are all online, at the Cheer Board site https://www.christmascheerboard.ca
Contact at St Andrew’s: Susan Chadwick
Eye Glasses & Hearing Aides – Don’t throw away someone’s chance for a clearer tomorrow. Donate your used eyeglasses today. We are pleased to partner with Canadian Lion’s Eyeglasses Recycling Centre (CLERC) to provide used eyeglasses for children and adults in developing countries.
Lions Hearing Program purpose is to support, promote, develop and foster programs for the benefit of persons experiencing hearing loss. We recycle hearing aids and partner with Horizon Hearing Centres to make available hearing aids to those in need. Our intention is to enable infants, children and adults affected by hearing loss to be able to achieve their chosen life goals with optimum results and minimum disruption.
Contact at St Andrew’s: Shelley Gorets
West End 24/7
Provides an overnight space for youth ages 16-26 to rest, relax, access food resources and basic needs, in a supportive, kind and warm environment. 2 Projects are run annually- Spring and Fall.
In the Fall donations of toiletry items, warm socks, scarves, mittens and healthy snacks and drinks.
In the Spring toiletry items were collected in addition to sun hats, socks and bottles of water.
Additionally, West End 24/7 collects household items to support clients who wish to get their own apartment when possible.
West Broadway Youth Outreach Program
Is a drop in recreational and life skills program for your age 4 and up. This program sees 100-150 youths go through their doors daily. It has provided school supplies and juice boxes.
The School Supply drive runs from July to August.
West Broadway Ministry provides juice boxes, toques and scarves.
Contact at St Andrew’s: Norma Pittman
We’re a leading children’s charity that strives for a just world by advancing children’s rights and equality for girls.
Plan International Canada is a member of a global organization that stands with children, especially girls, wherever they are oppressed, exploited, left behind or not equally valued. We’re active in more than 80 countries and work in partnership with children, families, supporters, community-based organizations and governments.
Did you know that the World Economic Forum believes that it will be 132 years before we achieve gender equality? Not good enough, right? Our Mission hasn’t changed. Creating a just world that advances children’s rights and equality for girls will continue to inspire everything we do. But our five-year All Girls Standing Strong (AGSS) strategy is designed to beat the clock in advancing girls’ rights. Join us in making that happen!
Five priority areas of expertise:
Education: We advance children’s right to get an education.
Health: We advance children’s right to lead healthy lives.
Protection from Violence: We advance children’s right to live violence free lives.
Youth Leadership & Economic Empowerment: We advance you people’s right to be heard, to lead and to be independent.
Humanitarian response & resilience: We advance children’s right to accept help during crises and to live in a more climate resilient world.
Contact at St Andrew’s: Sue Marlatt
Stamps collected by a volunteer who takes them to the stamp auction. The monies from the stamps are directed back to Charleswood United Church and is used for outreach programs.
Contact at St. Andrew’s: Doreen Pattie
Instructions for Collecting: Keep the stamp on the envelope. Cut out the stamp leaving a 1/4-inch border around the entire stamp. Collection Box on the credenza at the rear of the Sanctuary.
Mrs. Wynne became heavily involved in the Diocesan Board of the Women’s Auxiliary as Secretary and Treasure of the Dorcas Department, whose original purpose was to collect gifts and needed supplies for missions. She began to prepare and deliver baby layettes int eh 1960’s for needy families. After suffering from a stroke in 1981, Mrs. Evelyn Bains, the las President of the A.C.W. Diocesan Board continued the project, which was renamed the Thelma Wynne Project in 1983. Mrs. Thelma Wynne received the Order of Rupert’s Land January 6, 1988 and passed away in 1992. By 1999, the Thelma Wynne Project was supplying layettes to Healthy Start plus Child and Welfare Services, Health Science Center Social Service Department, North West Mentor Program, Hope Centre, International Center, Andrews Family Centre, Inner City Community Ministry, as well as individual Anglican and United parishes. It is now housed at St. George’s Anglican Church, Winnipeg (W.032). The Thelma Wynne Project is part of the Woman’s Commission of the Diocese and is run by volunteers.
Contact at St Andrew’s: Shelley Gorets
Wechetowin is a Cree word for “People Helping People” a grassroots organization, formed in 2006 by the Ruperts Land Aboriginal Circle of Elders. Moving to current day we continue the work envisioned by our Indigenous Elders as we work together, Indigenous and non-Indigenous people supporting each other.
Rupertsland’s, Wechetowin efforts are intended to address Healing, Wellness and Reconciliation. This is done holistically by people helping people, connecting in a variety of ways, giving people hope and in times of transition.
We as members of Rupert’s Land have gathered supplies, filled homemade bags, had them smudged and blessed and then distributed them to children who are going through a new transition. Items may also be collected for women who are in times of transition.
This was a one-time occurrence to date in conjunction with our Truth and Reconciliation studies.
Contact at St. Andrew’s: Shirley Bender
1 JUST CITY
1JustCity at the Pimicikamak Wellness Centre offers health and wellness programs to meet basic needs and helps individuals and families thrive in Winnipeg’s West/Central communities.
Programs include Indigenous Cultural Programming, housing supports, harm reduction supports, shower and laundry, and more. We also offer social and recreational programs to build social connection in our community and provide safety and belonging. We are working hard to build a resilient community of love and support – a place where people are known by name.
1JustCity is just one part of the Pimicikamak Wellness Centre, and beyond 1JustCity, the building will eventually include off-reserve housing for people from Norther First Nations, a daycare, and a medical clinic.
WEST BROADWAY MINISTRY
The “West Broadway Service” Ministry has for many years been part of 1JustCity’s ministry to Winnipegger’s living in the core area of our city, along with “Oak Table” and Pimicikamak Wellness Centre”.
The focus of West Broadway Services (housed at 222 Furby Street) has been to serve meals to those in need an provide supports to folks with complex physical, mental health, and substance-use challenges.
As of May 2025, 1JustCity began to transition into Housing Resources Hub, focusing going forward on assisting folks to access safe, stable housing, which is now seen to be an essential first step necessary in order to help make positive changes in the lives of those struggling to maintain hope for a better future. This change will include offering the following:
- Life-skills Workshops
- Tenant Rights Education & Conflict-Resolution Coaching
- Host Cultural Programming and help in Navigating Social Systems
- Deliver one-on-one Case Management & Trauma Informed Care
While anyone accessing WBCM will receive something to eat, folks will be encouraged to access Oak Table and Pimichikamak for full-service sit-down meals.
Contact at St. Andrew’s: Pam Bann and Grace Mackay
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