Minister:

At this time, St. Andrew’s United Church has issued a call for it’s next minister.  All who are qualified and inspired to join our congregation are invited find out more at Church Hub.  We welcome your interest.

Pastoral Charge Supervision:

Rev. Elizabeth Brown has been appointed Pastoral Charge Supervisor for St. Andrew’s United Church Sudbury.  

The Pastoral Charge Supervisor is appointed by Canadian Shield Regional Council to ensure the ongoing administrative and worship life of each community of faith while there is a call for the next minister.

Pastoral Care:

The Contingency Team of St. Andrew’s along with Ministry & Personnel Team are making arrangements for ongoing pastoral care coverage in 2026.  If anyone is in need of a pastoral  care visit or becomes aware of an illness or bereavement within our church family, please contact Bev Chapman and she will connect you with the appropriate person.

More information will be shared as it becomes available.

Please contact a member of the Contingency Planning Team if you have any questions or concerns.

Church Office

Gloria Appianing, Office Administrator:

The church office at St. Andrew’s will be closed for the holidays, reopening Tuesday January 6, 2026.

Regular office hours are Tuesday to Thursday, 9:30 am – 2:30 pm by appointment.

Phone: 705-674-0721, ext. 101       Email: church@st-andrews.ca

St. Andrew’s News

The “News” is published weekly to let you know what else is happening at St. Andrew’s and our wider community. If you would like to receive the News, please email the church office at church@st-andrews.ca to request the current edition and to join our mailing list.

Worship Services

Worship services will resume at St. Andrew’s on Sunday January 11, 2026 and are held at 10:30 every Sunday Morning. We also stream live online on YouTube. Please search for “St. Andrew’s United Church Sudbury” on YouTube to view our services. Please search for “St. Andrew’s United Church Sudbury” on YouTube to view our services. You may watch live or at any other time during the week.

Parking

Parking is available on Larch Street in front of St. Andrew’s, as well as on Lisgar and municipal lots including on Medina Lane behind the church.  Parking on the street and in municipal lots is free on weekends (although you may have to arm-wrestle a few of our Anglican friends at Church of the Epiphany to get a spot!). Please remember that the lot between the church and the Best Western Hotel, however, is private.

Our Mission

St. Andrew’s United Church is a welcoming, compassionate and inclusive Christian community of faith in downtown Sudbury. We offer meaningful, engaging worship, and provide leadership and support for mission-oriented programs and initiatives that are spiritually and socially relevant.

Vision Statement

Grow Spiritually, Build Community, Transform Lives

Values

Faith in Action
Inclusivity – Diversity
Advocacy – Justice – Respect

We live our faith by:

• CARING for our neighbours and our environment

• EXTENDING hospitality

• WORKING for peace and justice at home and abroad

• INTENTIONAL FOSTERING of Right Relations and Reconciliation

Our Community

We worship together as a community of faith on Sunday at 10:30 am in the building of St. Andrew’s Place on Larch Street in Sudbury. There is a warm invitation and welcome to everyone. St. Andrew’s congregation is diverse and gathers from all parts of the Greater Sudbury area. We are young and old, of varying ideas and different opinions and we are bound together in our faith and commitment to be the church of Jesus Christ in our community and beyond.

Our Story

Where We Are Right Now

Presently, St. Andrew’s United Church Sudbury has put out a call for its next minister. Transition Minister Rev. Dr Linda Marcotte, has completed her work that came out of an effort called “Doing Discipleship”.  A search team is working to call a minister to the full time position of Word, Sacrament and Pastoral Care.

In September 2023, the Council of St. Andrew’s United Church in Sudbury engaged the Toronto United Church Council (TUCC) to guide a congregational process focused on assessing long-term sustainability and envisioning future direction. This initiative included a series of town hall-style gatherings—known as Table Church—as well as small, facilitated discussion groups.

In September 2024, the congregation received a comprehensive report from TUCC facilitators Jill Strapp, Ron Ewart, and Daniel Reed. The report outlined several options for the church to consider. Following further reflection and dialogue, St. Andrew’s has begun actively exploring new strategies to become a sustainable faith community—reimagining what it means to live out its calling as the church of Jesus Christ in today’s world.

2014 – 2023

Rev. Dave Le Grand joined St. Andrew’s as full-time minister on October 1, 2018 after serving the congregation of Trinity United Church in Capreol for 12 years. Dave decided on St. Andrew’s, in part, because of its focus on the most vulnerable in the Sudbury downtown core. He looked forward to supporting the outreach work of St. Andrew’s. Dave served St Andrew’s during the challenging years of the pandemic when the church community changed in many ways. As well, the environment around the church in the downtown core took on the aspects of a tent city, and the evidence of homelessness and addiction were all around in the park beside St Andrew’s Place.

Before this, in the summer of 2014, the congregation requested the appointment of a ministry team, the Rev Catherine Somerville and the Rev Dr William (Bill) Steadman to job-share one position. Bill’s focus was on worship leadership, stewardship support, outreach, and the adult study group. Catherine was the primary pastoral care minister and she preached one Sunday per month. Both attended Church Council meetings, Presbytery meetings, and Downtown Churches meetings. Catherine’s special focus was on the support of the APANO program (Aboriginal Peoples Alliance of Northern Ontario); Bill worked with the United Church EDGE network as well as HealthierChurch.org on congregational support issues. Both regularly supported the programs of Club 111 Seniors Group.

With the arrival of this ministry team, the congregation took a renewed interest in connecting with its downtown neighbours. Each June a barbeque was held with the Downtown Churches for people in the core of the city, and the congregation held a community party around the annual Santa Claus Parade in November. An Out-of-the-Cold program ran on Friday evenings from November through mid-April, in cooperation with other Greater Sudbury congregations and local food outlets. The congregation offered its first Community Kitchen program in the winter of 2015, and had a second program in the spring of 2016. Funding for this program came from a Presbytery grant made possible through an endowment set-up from the sale of St. Paul’s United Church in Sudbury. This is an ongoing project of the Reaching Out Team.

Rev. Bill Steadman retired from his position with St. Andrew’s June 30, 2018, leading to a call being made which lead to the hiring of Rev. Le Grand.  Rev. Somerville continued her service with St. Andrew’s focusing on pastoral care and community support from July 1, 2018 to March 31, 2021. 

Before this, Dr. Robert Hall, lead the music program at St. Andrew’s for many years, bringing music to the services in the sanctuary on Sundays, as well as many concerts to the beautiful performance space, sponsored by the community, the church and Laurentian University.

Our History

For the history of St. Andrew’s United Church, from its beginnings in 1883 through June 2018, please CLICK HERE.