We opened the missional Church on September 27, 2003, led by Justin Laki and Augustino Perino. The bishop visited the congregation and informed us during the meeting that he will ordain one person within the group and that person should be within an Anglican background.

After the Bishop left, Augustino Perino becomes unhappy with Bishop’s idea to ordained only a member within Anglican background. According to another group, they wanted Augustino to be ordained as a senior pastor and Justin laki to be an assistant. He makes a lot of problems and wanted to call for a police officer, but all members avoided him, he left the Church and moved to another Province.

In the same 2003, we received 300 plus Anglican members arrived from Ippo,(Dinka tribe) and they don’t know the way to Anglican church. Justin assist transported them every Sundays to St Savior Anglican Parish for two months to joined us to worship together. Our missional church was led by Late Bishop Patrick Lee, and the new arrival complained that they don’t know Arabic even English they would like to worship in Dinka language. Late Bishop Lee visited St Mathew A Parish looking for space for worship, but the diocesan bishop called for a meeting at All saints between the new arrivals (Dinka) and the existed congregation.

The bishop asked if we both can worship together and provided translation on each service, but the newly group rejected Bishop’s ideas said they wanted to worship in their own mother tongue, whether Bishop like it or not they got space at St Mathew Parish, and they left.

The Congregation faced transportation difficulties, therefore in 2004 the group met Jim Draper Rector of All saints if he can allow us a space. Jim Accepted and we started our services at All Saints on November 27^th, 2004, time at 1 pm after English services. We, therefore, formed a church council, youth ministry, Sunday School ministry, prison and Hospital ministry, women ministry, pastoral team, Sponsorship team, and others.

We called for a meeting chaired by the diocesan bishop and named our missional Church to be called St Andrew Anglican Mission (Sudanese Community Church) 175 Colony Street. We applied for Charitable number and immediately we got it in a short period of time, then we developed a church profile and stewardship for the growth of the mission to make use of our different gifts. AS the Bible said, “Each one has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace” (1Peter 4:10)

Stewardship programs are all about our relationship with God, to one another, and how we serve him, how we offer him our talents, gift, time, and treasury.

As so far, we have contributed time, talent, and treasure in many ways that each person is doing at St Andrew Anglican mission such as: choir music, Sunday services and sermons, women fellowship bible study, wedding, Baptism, confirmation, annual celebrations as mothers and fathers’ days, Christmas, and Easter services and all other community services memorial services and happy services.

After school program:

As the Church grew, one of the pastors’ concerns is about the Immigrants Children learning after arrival to Canada:

• They were enrolled to class based on age
• Others never been to school
• Others studied Arabic
• Others doesn’t know English at all

The Rev Justin Laki was a member of Immigration council and member of Interfaith Welcome Place, he sends volunteers to Welcome place especially those from South Sudan (Dinka by tribe). Rev Justin meets with Late Martin Dolyl and raised concerns to have after school program to help African Immigrants children from their leaning.

Late Martin told Rev Laki to get ready for presentations in the schools especially at Gordon Bell High school to create After school program for African Children in all levels. The first presentation was in Gordon Bell H school, and Rev Laki asked a question to the principal of the school that who is the decision maker in this school?

It becomes a topic, the school council was in limbo with the question raised, and the second presentation was in Winnipeg educational board. Late martin in support of the project and he connected us for a meeting with neighborhood alive and funded the after-school program for two years.

Through welcome place, we shared and interviewed applicants for the position of Coordinator and its assistant. The coordinator was hired jointly between Church and Welcome place, while the assistant coordinator was hired by coordinator. The project was supposed to be reported through the church and the Church forwarded to the funders. But the reporting didn’t go the way we agreed upon between welcome place who hosted the project because of liability the project ended in two years no going forward.

Pastoral Objectives and Programs Done From 2006-present

• Private Sponsorship Program was formed in 2006 at All Saints Anglican Church
• Under St Andrew Sudanese Community Church as Constituency group under MIIC
• The Rev Justin/Chairman and signatory of the Sponsorship program
• The Private Sponsorship was for Family linked to those who wanted to be joined with their love once.
• From 2006 to 2009, we have Sponsored more than 600 new Refugees, and 27 Muslims as our call was for humanity despite religious affiliations, gender or and beliefs we just consider humanity in our Sponsorship program.

Group five private Sponsorship program was opened October 2018

• Rev Justin was invited by the Sudanese refugees in Israel to look ways how to sponsor them to come to Canada.
• On September 27th 20217, Rev Justin travelled to Israel and spent 10 days and filled over 45 forms for group five Sponsorship program.
• The Rev laki returned back to Canada on October 11^th, 2017, and he called first meeting with the pastoral team on October 27^th, 2017, to informed them about his visit to Israel.
• Some of the pastoral team suggested that the project should be handed over to the Community.
• Rev Justin Laki called the Community leaders for a meeting, however, the meeting was not successfully as some of the community leaders had different opinions questioning why to sponsor Muslims, others said the program belongs to the organization.
• Rev Justin and Pastor Okot, both had signalled each other, and the meeting will be called later, and the meeting ended.
• Rev Justin and Pastor Okot, they recruit the 5 members to be the signatories under Sudanese Community Humanitarian and Compassionate Church Inc that was registered on March 13^th, 2019.
• Rev Justin Laki the founder is the contact person, chairman and Representative of the group five Sponsorship program
• Applicants seven accepted waiting for arrival
• Applicants four are still in process

Sponsorship Agreement Holders

• Started March 19th, 2019, and certificate issued
• The Pastor took his first exams March 15th, 2019
• Obtained 90 percent but Church registration was less than two years
• The pastor took exams again March 2020, and obtained 90 percent
• Application to become SAH was submitted on November 29th, 2020