Impact Stories

Toronto City Mission primarily reached out to the poor who just needed a helping hand, poor houses were meant for the absolute destitute, the homeless and the elderly.

This poem is taken from Toronto City Mission’s nineteenth annual report in 1898, and reflected their mandate to minister to the poor and needy, both physically and spiritually. 

Toronto City Mission now no longer works in prisons, however, the mission is shaped by missionaries like Robert Hall and Samuel Arnold who had the same vision of seeing lives transformed by the gospel.

In 1898 a group of woman doctors lead by Dr. Jenny Gray Wildman, faculty of Ontario Medical College for Women, founded a dispensary for poor women at the Toronto City Mission Sackville Street location.