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Overview
FLPC Youth are now home from Canada. This website was used over the course of two weeks (23rd July - 6th August 2009) for updates and other news about the trip.
While in Canada, Debs Lowry sent back updates about the trip for the website. These were displayed here for family and friends to see what they were up to!
You can view the Diary entries from Debs here.
Initial Wavelength Report by Tanya Surgeon
As
some of you may know a group of 10 young people and 4 leaders from FLPC
will be heading to Toronto this July to volunteer with a group called
Urban Promise working as one of their workgroups. Urban Promise is an
organisation in Canada which a couple of our members have been involved
with in the past.
We will be helping at one of their summer camps, which will include
planning and presenting a carnival on one of the afternoons, bringing
the children on a trip, and spreading the Gospel through drama, stories
and songs.
For over 11 years Urban Promise have responded to the most vulnerable
times faced by urban children these being the time after school and
summer holidays when children and youth hang out on the street or go
home to an empty apartment. They offer tutoring assistance, healthy
snacks and recreation for children in four different Toronto
neighbourhoods on a daily basis. Special events like talent shows,
community hangout nights and several different trips to places like the
Science Centre, museums, plays and sporting events are also offered.
Urban Promise works in 4 communities across Toronto namely Warden Woods,
Rexdale, Alexander Park, and Jane and Finch. There are summer
camps in each of these four areas, and our group will split between two
of them. We will help to run day camps similar to our holiday bible
club, with over 100 children attending each camp.
Some of you may be thinking that you’d love to be involved in something
like this, one way you can be involved is through PRAYER! We would ask
that you pray for the team and for the work that we’re going to be
doing. We’ve already seen the power of prayer even in the early stages
of organising the trip, so please get involved through prayer.
As a group we are very grateful for all the donations, support and
prayer you have dedicated to this trip, and now all we can ask is that
you keep it up!
Tanya Surgeon
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