Stonegate Community Ecumenical Ministry

What a privilege it is to walk with the Lord Jesus at Stonegate. Located in Etobicoke, Ontario, Stonegate Community Ecumenical Ministry’s core clientele are the tenants who live in a low-rise apartment building in the Stonegate community. We serve approximately 15,000 people in a year. Many are single parent, low income families, and new Canadians. We have an outreach store, second-hand clothing store, volunteer opportunities, advocacy, walk-in counseling, Women’s Time friendship group, community services partnerships, prayer connection, annual gospel concert, food security programs and community development.

Our work is a daily opportunity given to us to encourage, embrace, minister and pray for someone in the community. We witness daily the restoration God brings to people's lives, renewing their relationship with Him and restoring family relationships. The broken hearts, the destitute, the lonely are touched with God's redeeming love, and are rediscovering their destiny in the glorious person of Christ Jesus. As we witness the transformation God is daily bringing to the Stonegate community, we are encouraged to press on, to fight the good
fight alongside the Lord Jesus, always learning from Christ and finding rest for our souls along the way.

We value every moment, every challenge and every situation we experience at Stonegate Ministry. We acknowledge that, not even for a second, would we be able to do the work based on our own ability, our own strength and our own knowledge. Daily we place our trust in our Heavenly Father’s promise: "Fear not, for I am with you, be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my victorious hand." (Isaiah 41:10)

We witness daily the restoration God brings to people's lives, renewing their relationship with Him and restoring family relationships.

From the bottom of our hearts, we thank the generous and faithful contribution we receive from Canada Ministries, through Presbyterians Sharing. It is our cry to the Lord God that, as a family of church communities and ministries, we will continue to be a catalyst for the expansion and establishment of God’s kingdom in the hearts of the people at Stonegate.

Shalom aleikhem (peace be unto you),
Elizabeth Zinder de Jesus, Community Ministry Coordinator