cOMING EVENTS

We are pleased to inform you that Circle of Care is now offering their exercise classes online through ZOOM! Circle of Care provides free exercise and falls prevention classes to older adults living in the community. The Falls Prevention program is led by an Occupational Therapist, and the Group Exercise Classes are led by trained fitness professionals. Classes are designed to help participants increase mobility, relieve pain and reduce the risk of falls by building strength and improving balance. Classes are funded by the Central Local Health Integration Network (CLIN), and are offered to eligible participants free of charge.

 The classes have already received RAVE reviews from our Armour Heights Community and run daily at 10:30AM, Monday to Friday! Each class offers a variety of options to challenge participants of all fitness levels. To view the full schedule and register for classes, click the button below. Circle of Care notes that they are currently experiencing an IT issue with their website so you may see a security issue. Circle of Care assures all participants that their website is absolutely safe. If you see an error page, go to the bottom and click "advanced" and then "proceed to.." and it will get you to where you need to be!

If you have any other questions, please contact Erin Stone for details. 

 For a long time, Armour Heights Church has been a supporter of the North York Harvest Food Bank; we do this by spreading awareness of the food bank, as well as through food donations that we collect at church.

During these days of Covid-19, there are still families and individuals in our area that are in need of food from the food bank. As an essential service, Harvest Food Bank remains open and continues to be in need of food and monetary donations. 

Even during these days of self-isolation, we can continue to support the Harvest Food Bank. Here's how you can help:

Drop off food items outside the office door of Armour Heights Church. One of the members of the ministry team will ensure those items are collected each day and added to our food bank box. Once the box is full, we'll make sure all that food is collected by Harvest Food Bank. Some of the most needed items are canned tomatoes, canned beans, canned fish, rice, and household size oil. 

If getting out and either purchasing or dropping off food is not safe for you to do at this time but you would still like to help, you can donate money to the Harvest Food Bank, as well. Click here to donate. 

Thank you for your continued support of this important ministry within our church neighbourhood! This outreach will make a big difference in the lives of many. 

 Armour Heights has supported Evangel Hall Mission (ehm) for many years in a variety of ways. We had plans to cook meals for ehm later in April, but that event will have to be cancelled. 

However, that doesn't mean we cannot continue to support ehm in other ways! Right now, ehm is doing what it can to provide a safe space for its residents as well as community supports during this health care crisis, but they could use our assistance.

Want to help ehm during this crisis? Here are some options:

• Volunteer in a telephone ministry to provide safe, encouraging, social contact
• Create messages of hope or draw pictures 
• Mail $10-$20 Loblaws gift cards, including Attention: Cards of Hope in the address 
• Pray for the protection and health of participants and residents. And for wisdom as the senior management team makes decisions through this difficult time.

EHM has also launched a new "Take-Out"Lunch program. To learn more, CLICK HERE.

The address for ehm is 552 Adelaide Street West, Toronto, Ontario, M5V 3W8

Contact ehm at cindy.han@evangelhall.ca for more information.