Each year we raise between $16,000 and $24,000 form various sponsors and around 60 participants from 7 to 85 years (and several dogs). We walk or run through Gibbons Park wending our way to Wellington Street and back to the church.

In addition to the hospitality meal program, Outreach funds provided financial support
for the following in the range of $500 to $3000.

- Clergy Outreach Discretionary Fund
- Family Services Thames Valley
- Huron Church Camp—campers bursaries
- St. Paul’s Social Services
- St. Paul’s Food Bank
- Indwell London, which provides housing to London’s most vulnerable
- Financial help to London new Canadians

For several years now some faithful volunteers have led a book club at the Elgin Middlesex Detention Centre (EMDC). The club meets weekly at the jail, with two of the leaders and from two to six inmates. There is a new book each month (funded by the proceeds from St. John’s annual book sale), usually exhausted after three weeks, followed by a week when a short story is discussed. There is a poem each week which, perhaps surprisingly, is very well received.

We’ve read short stories - by Stephen King, David Graan, Thomas King, Thomas McGuane, and Roal Dahl.
We’ve read non-fiction – “Seven Fallen Feathers,” “The Glass Castle,” “Finding Gobi,” “The Tiger,” “Forgiveness,” “All The Way,” “Born A Crime,” and “Writing My Wrongs.”
We’ve read fiction – “Dune”, “IQ,” “Legacy of Spies,” “Moonglow,” “The Dry,” “A Man Called Ove” and “1984.”

We are encouraged by unexpected insights and by improving reading skills and by the development, however difficult, of real relationships with the detainees. And we have the full support of Ellen McKegney, the EMDC volunteer coordinator, which helps enormously.

The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) is “the Anglican Church of Canada’s agency for sustainable development and relief.” Through our contributions to this agency, we can help make a difference in the lives of vulnerable people here at home and around the world.

A couple of times a year we collect food to send to St. Paul’s Food Bank or collect other items for places like the local women’s shelter.

For over 20 years we have had a Christmas Outreach to the community providing London families with goodwill baskets. The families are nominated by St. Johns personnel, Family Services Thames Valley, and Rotholme Family Shelter.

In 2019 we began to offer learning opportunities for people in the community to learn more about the causes of poverty in our city, and to have an opportunity to talk to experts and politicians about how to address poverty in our city.

One of our biggest outreach initiatives is the lending of our space to many service groups such as Al-Anon, AA groups, OA groups, Voice Disorder Group, Sparks, Brownies, Guides, Pathfinders, Beavers, Cubs and Scouts.