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Charitable organizationChristianity·408 - 1044 BALMORAL RD · VICTORIA, BC · V8T 1A8·BN 118787142RR0063·website ↗
Last reported: F2024 filing · period ending 2024-12-31
What it does — in its own words
Ongoing programs
Name of Activity: Public Church Services The Emmaus Community provides church services called the AbbeyChurch on a weekly basis. Clergy musicians and other volunteers conduct a service of the word and sacrament on Sundays at 4 pm. These services are open to the public and currently have between 25 and 40 people attending. The church service includes scripture readings hymns sermon and holy communion. Name of Activity: Daily offices of prayer The Emmaus Community comes together to pray frequently throughout the week. The wider community is invited and welcomed to these times of prayer. Cu… Show more
Name of Activity: Public Church Services The Emmaus Community provides church services called the AbbeyChurch on a weekly basis. Clergy musicians and other volunteers conduct a service of the word and sacrament on Sundays at 4 pm. These services are open to the public and currently have between 25 and 40 people attending. The church service includes scripture readings hymns sermon and holy communion. Name of Activity: Daily offices of prayer The Emmaus Community comes together to pray frequently throughout the week. The wider community is invited and welcomed to these times of prayer. Currently (June 2025) we gather for Morning Prayer on Mondays Tuesdays Thursdays and Fridays in person and online via zoom.
New programs
Name of Activity: Partner with the North Park Neighbourhood Association in delivering groceries to those in need in our neighbourhood. This includes volunteer time and receiving and disbursing grants on their behalf. This is an ongoing partnership. Name of Activity: Partner with QomQem Coastel Connections in delivering food relief to the unhoused in downtown Victoria on Sunday Evenings. Emmaus/AbbeyChurch provides a kitchen for the making of sandwiches and putting together of food bags. Folk from Emmaus/AbbeyChurch also volunteer their time. This program started in Spetember 2024 and continu… Show more
Name of Activity: Partner with the North Park Neighbourhood Association in delivering groceries to those in need in our neighbourhood. This includes volunteer time and receiving and disbursing grants on their behalf. This is an ongoing partnership. Name of Activity: Partner with QomQem Coastel Connections in delivering food relief to the unhoused in downtown Victoria on Sunday Evenings. Emmaus/AbbeyChurch provides a kitchen for the making of sandwiches and putting together of food bags. Folk from Emmaus/AbbeyChurch also volunteer their time. This program started in Spetember 2024 and continued to the spring of 2025.
Program descriptions from its F2024 T3010 filing, verbatim · self-reported · this is also the text our semantic search matches against. source ↗
Tier 1 — what we computed (open data)
From the charity's own F2024 T3010 filing. Self-reported; not independently verified. You can recompute every figure.
Cents to cause
T1 · computed (open data)4¢
Per its F2024 T3010, 4¢ of each dollar spent went to programs.
Sector median: 89¢ across 55,155 computed charities.
T3010 line 5000 ÷ 4950 · Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗
Operating overhead
T1 · computed (open data)—
Management, administration, and fundraising as a share of total spending. We treat 5–35% as the typical range; we state the figure, you judge.
T3010 line (5010 + 5020) ÷ 4950 · Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗
Reserves
T1 · computed (open data)18.3 yr
Years current reserves could cover program spending.
Sector quartiles: 0.4 yr / 0.8 yr / 7.5 yr (p25 / median / p90).
T3010 line (4100 + 4140) ÷ 5000 · Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗
Total revenue
T1 · computed (open data)$162K
Last-reported total revenue.
T3010 line 4700 · Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗
Donor-funded
T1 · computed (open data)48%
Share of revenue from receipted donations.
T3010 line 4500 ÷ 4700 · Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗
Government-funded
T1 · computed (open data)0%
Share of revenue from federal, provincial, and municipal sources.
T3010 line 4570 (or 4540+4550+4560) ÷ 4700 · Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗
★ Tier 2 — Charity Intelligence (analyst-reviewed)
Not rated by Charity Intelligence. Their analysts cover 618 of Canada's 83,761 charities; absence of a rating says nothing about this charity. Our computed figures above stand on their own.
Board of directors
2 directors reported · 2 of 2at arm's length
- Mills, LynnTreasurerarm's length
- Shearer, RobertDirectorarm's length
From its F2024T3010 filing (public CRA record), as filed. “Arm's length” means not related to other officials by family or business ties. source ↗
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