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The Helping Hands hold nine monthly meetings each year on the third Monday of each month. Each meeting has a theme, program, possibly a speaker and a lunch. They are responsible for staffing and supplies in the church nursery. They provide funds for the Junior Choir, Camp Kintail registration, mission projects, shut in gifts at Christmas and Easter, "Stepping Out" meals, and support of church functions. They are a lively group of women who welcome newcomers into their fellowship.

Friendship Auxiliary

Next meeting, September 28 6:30 p.m. PotLuck

We are a Women's Missionary Society involved in local and world mission.

We meet monthly to take part in interesting programmes involving study, prayer, and seasonal topics.

Fellowship is an important part of our gatherings. We cater to banquets and lunches, and it is working together in the kitchen and banquet hall that strengthens our friendships and caring for each other.

We support programmes of The Presbyterian Church in Canada and of our local church and community. We also support projects to aid those less fortunate, such as our orphan in Indonesia, bedkits for Sleeping Children Around the World, winter woolies for the First Nations people in Northern Ontario.

We have several social events each year, some of which are shared with the Helping Hands.

We are a happy, outgoing group of ladies who welcome newcomers with a smile and open arms. We would love to have you join us.

Ladies' Aid

The mandate of the Ladies’ Aid Society has been to support our Church. Recently $1,500 has been given to the Board of Managers for the General Fund of the Church, the Sunday School has also been remembered as well as The Memorial Fund in memory of four Society members who have recently passed away.

This disbursement of funds bring to a close the Society known as the Ladies' Aid Society of St. Marys Presbyterian Church as of 2007.

We are very appreciative that the Helping Hands Group have graciously taken over the organizing of after funeral luncheons.

THE LADIES' AID

The old church bell had long been cracked;

Its call was but a groan;

It seemed to sound a funeral knell

With every broken tone.

"We need a bell," the brethren said,

"But taxes must be paid;

We have no money we can spare . . .

Just ask the Ladies' Aid."

The shingles on the roof were old;

The rain came down in rills;

The brethren slowly shook their heads

And spoke of "monthly bills".

The chairman of the board arose,

And said, "I am afraid

That we shall have to lay the case

Before the Ladies' Aid."

The carpet had been patched and patched

Till quite beyond repair,

And through the aisles and up the steps

The boards showed, hard and bare.

"It is too bad," the brethren said;

An effort must be made

To raise an interest on the the part

Of members of the Aid."

The preacher's stipend was behind;

The poor man blushed to meet

The grocer and the butcher as

They passed him on the street;

But nobly spake the brethren then;

With slopes of ease on either side,

The path 'tis hard to keep;

We cannot climb the heights alone,

Our hears are sore dismayed;

We ne'er shall get to heaven at all

Without the Ladies' Aid."

Author Unknown