Student Outreach: Canterbury's Charities
Every Fall semester, the residents of Gribbin & Murray Houses at Canterbury work to park cars on the front lawn at our church. Every year 1/3 of the money is given toward church projects, 1/3 is given to the students as scholarships, and the final 1/3 of our money raised is given to charities chosen by our students & residents who helped raise the money. This year, we allotted over $6,000 to various charities around the world.
Canterbury's Food Ministry
Every Tuesday morning, we open our food pantry and serve the community of Tuscaloosa through food outreach. Serving up to 16 families, and up to 50-60 people each week, the students gave $1,500 back to Canterbury to help minister to the hungry.
Haiti Aid & Relief
FStudents allotted over $1,000 to relief in Haiti, in addition to the over $1,500 that our parish raised through Sunday donations and pledges.
Sawyerville Work Project
FSawyerville Work Project is a day camp for disadvantaged youth in rural alabama. Campers come to camp for free, and participate in crafts and other camp activities, working with children to grow, love, and flourish in their communities.
Hekima Place, Kenya
Hekima Place is a girls orphanage in Kenya for young girls orphaned by AIDS. Hekima's mission is to provide a stable home environment, support for education, and a place to grow in comfort, safety and love
The Martha O'Bryan Center
FThe Martha O'Bryan Center is a faith-based family resource center in Nashville, TN to empower children, youth, and adults in poverty to transform their lives through work, education, employment, and fellowship.
Wilmer Hall Children's Home
Wilmer Hall Children's Home provides a home for children who have no home or can not live with their parents. Canterbury Chapel has long supported this Episcopal Church home, and hopes to continue supporting them during the holidays and for regular operations.
The Homegrown Alabama Farmer's Marker
We at Canterbury have loved hosting & supporting the Homegrown Alabama Farmer's Market for two years now, and we look forward to them restarting this May. We here at Canterbury are a bunch of food-nuts, and we love anything that helps support local food and better eating in our community. This year our students voted to allot $1,000 to purchase locally-grown, healthy, organic vegetables and other foods from our own farmer's market to then incorporate into our Tuesday morning food ministry. With the help of residents with great knowledge of local food prorgramming and education, as well as the leaders of the farmer's market, our goal is to provide help to community members who are in need of food to find healthy, nutritious ways to feed their families. Many families can be intimidated by fresh fruits and veggies because they do not know how to prepare them, and it can be easier to prepare processed food out of a box or out of a fast food bag. We hope that this year we can help families find ways to eat that are easy, healthy, and local. Check back to our Homegrown Alabama page to see how this initiative goes when we start in ths Summertime!