Ride For Refuge (October 2025)

Thanks to all of you for donating, volunteering, and participating in this past Saturday’s Ride for Refuge event held at Beavermead Park.  A special thanks to Sheryl Smith for being our lead organizer for this event and to our event sponsors, Christian radio 100.3 for promoting and covering the event and the Peterborough Lions Club who covered the cost of the meal for all participants. To-date over $4,500 has been raised to support Rani Ibrahim and the Newcomers Mission.  It’s not too late to donate!  To do so, please visit:  https://rideforrefuge.org/location/peterborough.  Income tax receipts are processed immediately.

An Afternoon of Joy, Laughter & Inspiration with Wendy Farha (September 2025)

St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church and Princess Gardens Retirement Residence invite you to join us for a very special afternoon with Canadian singer-songwriter, comedian and inspirational speaker Wendy Farha. This free event will be held Monday September 21st from 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. at Princess Gardens, located at 100 Charlotte Street. Parking is available at Peterborough Square for a fee. Car pooling is recommended.

Through a wonderful combination of music, humour and heartfelt storytelling, Wendy has a remarkable ability to make people laugh while also speaking honestly about some of life’s deepest challenges.

During our afternoon together, Wendy will share some of her original songs and stories from her own journey through clinical depression, breast cancer and other difficult seasons of life. Through it all, she has discovered that even when life doesn’t unfold as we had hoped, joy can still be found—and laughter can sometimes be very good medicine!

To learn more about Wendy and her ministry, visit: https://wendyhaha.com

Art Show for the Kwaratha Foodshare (March 2025)

From March 6th through to and including Easter (April 20th) St. Paul’s is pleased to showcase the artwork of local Peterborough artist Janet Lutz.  The art project, called “Seeing and Being Seen” features 21 beautiful watercolour portraits of people in our community who find themselves vulnerable because of illness, unemployment (or underemployment), addiction and lack of housing.  Janet invites us to “see” these neighbours, to engage them in conversation and to affirm their worth and dignity.  Janet hopes to inspire those who have a little “extra” to give to Kawartha Food Share (KFS) to help address food insecurity in our city/region.  According to Aishlee Aitken, General Manager of KFS, over the past four years, the number of people relying on them for food has increased from 7,000 clients to 14,000.  KFS receives no government funding and relies solely on donations and volunteers to run their operations.
If you’d like to view the exhibit, please call the St. Paul’s office at 705-745-1411 to arrange a viewing.