Overview

FLPC Youth are now home from Canada. This website was used over the course of two weeks (23rd July - 6th August) for updates and other news about the trip. All the items received can now be viewed in the News/Updates Section!

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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