“Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did it for me.”
^{Matthew 25:40}

Compassionate outreach into surrounding towns, villages, and cities – and mission development overseas – are essential components in building bridges to the communities around us. Whether the community is the local neighbourhood or a continent thousands of miles away, we are all called to respond to the needs of others through care and concern, sacrifice, and generosity

At Christ Risen, our outreach activities include both a Social Ministry (aimed at the community around us) and Mission Care (aimed at overseas regions around the globe).

Our Social Ministry developed from a concern and commitment to assist families and individuals suffering with emotional stresses and hardships – whether family-based, work-related, school-related, or just someone trying to cope with the demands of everyday life. Whatever the tragedy, crisis, or adversity, the goals of the Social Ministry Team are to bring support and assistance – comfort, care, and concern – to individuals and families who are hurting and needing help.

Similarly, our Mission Care efforts focus on assisting mission congregations based in the developing regions of Southern Asia and Central America (as examples, the Malabar Mission in India and Nicaragua Mission in Nicaragua). Other outreach and special relief activities supported by our Mission Care program include: assistance to Canadian Lutheran World Relief, Lutheran Bible Translators, the Lutheran Association of Missionaries and Pilots (LAMP), the Concordia Lutheran Mission Society, the Lutheran Women’s Missionary League, the Food Banks of Kanata, Nepean, Almonte, and Stittsville, and the Haiti Lutheran Mission Society.

All of our Care programs are focused on teaching and demonstrating Christ’s love and revealing how caring for others can have a positive and healing effect in our local communities and society at large — for we only need to take the first initial step of caring to discover the immensity of compassion and the power of generosity.