The congregation from St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Guelph has made a $600,000 leadership gift to the recently-launched Home For Good Campaign.
The campaign is raising $5 million to help address homelessness in the community.
“As individuals and as a congregation, St. Andrew’s has a mandate to support others in the community,” said Mary Visser Kerr, a member of the leadership team that helped guide the giving process, in a news release.
“This desire to help is a driving factor for all our activities. We are always challenging ourselves to find ways we can get involved and are so thrilled about the impact this money is going to have.”
“The St. Andrew’s gift is the largest cash contribution the campaign has received to date and has already been leveraged to encourage additional government grants,” says campaign co-lead Glenna Banda, executive director of United Way Guelph Wellington Dufferin.
“This gift is a great fit for our past and future,” commented Nicki Groenewegen, another gift organizer from the church.
The funds come from the sale of the Westminster-St Paul’s Presbyterian Church that closed in 2021.
