Our Stories

Everyone in the neighbourhood knows Janice Bellmore. She’s always helping people get to know each other. Her natural friendliness and big smile make her the perfect person to serve juice in the drop-in alongside her good friend Trish, who serves the coffee. Janice first came to All Saints “a long

“All Saints has helped me through a lot of things. Theologically, my reasoning and my feelings weren’t challenged, they were just accepted. And I couldn’t have made it though some very bad periods of time if it hadn’t been for their generosity.”

Eleanor is a regular at the Thursday Women’s Drop-in at All Saints Church – Community Centre. She is very outgoing and has a twinkle in her eye that helps to hide the pain she suffers from chronic medical conditions. When I asked her about the difference that All Saints makes in her

All Saints is a place where people can be themselves. At All Saints, we meet people where they are, not where we want them to be. Virtually all our community members have survived multiple traumas, and many relive those traumas daily. Experts say trauma isn’t so much events themselves as

by Megan Lowry, Nurse One of the gifts of All Saints is the way people can remain connected to the community at various time s and in various ways. If you’ve been to All Saints, chances are you’ve met Kim. Kim is a good friend, funny, and welcoming. When we’re

Lashana is a drop-in worker and peer volunteer supervisor. To her, All Saints is a place of refuge. She says, “folks that come in to see us are at their all time low. Here at All Saints, there are no expectations, no restrictions, anyone is welcome through the door. We

When Anne-Marie first came to All Saints, she was living in a shelter. “It was awful,” she says. “I couldn’t speak to my mom and dad about it.” Staff at All Saints facilitated Anne-Marie’s move into supportive housing and her transition to independent living. “I’m disabled,” she explains. “They help

“I’ve been coming to this church almost every day for 10 years. When I don’t come here, my mind is in a different world. Being an addict, I forget God. But I’m a child of God. I’ve come through the trenches. You know why? Cause I’ve got the shield. This

All Saints’ doors are always open for us, whether you are hungry, angry or sad. Staff are always on heels and ready to help in whatever way necessary. I believe that All Saints’ runs off mutual respect for participants to participants and staff to participants especially given the fact that we

When Lucy walked into the Friday Women’s Drop-In for the first time, I was struck by her very cool, high-heeled shoes. The Friday Women’s Drop-In at All Saints’ serves female sex workers and drug addicts and now, increasingly, a number of transgender women who live and work in the area.