A new season!

Once again my apartment as filled up with young adults from around the world as we dive into a new season and a new year of after school program in our much loved communities through UrbanPromise.
Going into my second year holds more responsibility in training, leading, as well as be pushed past the normal grind of running after school program.
Yesterday was a revamp day as we evaluated last years program, schedule and carefully made adjustments for this year.
Over all our youth program in Rexdale is a much younger crowd compared to last year. We have about 10 youth who will be moving up from the kids program into our youth program which is very exciting for them and for us!  There is so much potential in the group we will have this year. They are eager, full of questions and are up for anything. This gives us huge opportunity which I feel a huge responsibility to make sure that it is not ignored.
As I brainstormed what I wanted this year to be about I kept coming back to experience. Experience God, experience new things, and to learn.
There is so much to be learned and experiences by our kids that if not for what we plan they will never get a chance to experience.
As I thought on that I also started realizing all the many resources I have in people I know and friends. Resources not so much in the materialistic way but in the resource of brains, ideas and skills. So one of my big goals this year is to use these resources, to use the skills of others I know to bless these kids and I am very excited to see God is going to bring up and pull out of this desire and what He is going to do through it all.
He has also opened more opportunities for me to be involved in the bigger picture of things happening in Toronto as I helped start up a brand new daily bread food bank last Sunday in east Etobicoke and will be continue to help with new branch of out reach into our community.

Please pray for Camp Victory, Camp Freedom and Camp Hope as we buckle down, evaluate, pray and plan over our program plans from now until Christmas season. Pray for wisdom and creativity to see outside of the box.
Pray also for the food bank that through it we would be able to build relationships with families within our community and share with them the living bread of life!