Spring Youth 12 | Youth Events

October 15th: Craft Night - We will be meeting at our building to eat dinner and make some crafts together. We will have a variety of options available, however youth are encouraged to bring a craft project they are presently working on if desired and possible.

Time: 6:00pm-9:00pm

Cost: $5

October 29th: Sports and Games Night - We are planning a fun sports and games night in our building and around the property and will have dinner together as part of the night. Youth who have favourite sports or game they enjoy should contact Jeremy for more information.

Time: 6:00pm-9:00pm

Cost: $5 - Includes food

Normally in the fall we would have our retreat at a venue outside of Toronto. This year we are planning a Toronto In-City Retreat where we will explore the area of Toronto together and still have intentional times of worship and teaching.

Days: November 19th, 6pm-9pm, November 20th, 9:am-9pm

Cost: $50

Registration Deadline November 3rd, 2021: http://tiny.cc/

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To stay up to date on what is happening for your youth, please visit our google calendar which has all our planned events. http://tiny.cc/YouthCal

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Austin Channing Brown’s first encounter with a racialized America came at age seven, when she discovered her parents named her Austin to deceive future employers into thinking she was a white man. Growing up in majoritywhite schools and churches, Austin writes, “I had to learn what it means to love blackness,” a journey that led to a lifetime spent navigating America’s racial divide as a writer, speaker, and expert helping organizations practice genuine inclusion. I’m Still Here is an illuminating look at how white, middle-class, Evangelicalism has participated in an era of rising racial hostility, inviting the reader to confront apathy, recognize God’s ongoing work in the world, and discover how blackness—if we let it—can save us all.

Celtic Christianity–the form of Christian faith that flourished among the people of Ireland during the Middle Ages– has gained a great deal of attention lately. George G. Hunter III points out that while the attention paid to the Celtic Christians is well deserved, much of it fails to recognize the true genius of this ancient form of Christianity. What many contemporary Christians do not realize is that Celtic Christianity was one of the most successfully evangelistic branches of the church in history. The Celtic church converted Ireland from paganism to Christianity in a remarkably short period, and then proceeded to send missionaries throughout Europe. North America is today in the same situation as the environment in which the early Celtic preachers found their mission fields: unfamiliar with the Christian

message, yet spiritually seeking and open to a vibrant new faith. If we are to spread the gospel in this culture of secular seekers, we would do well to learn from the Celts. Their ability to work with the beliefs of those they evangelized, to adapt worship and church life to the indigenous patterns they encountered, remains unparalleled in Christian history. If we are to succeed in reaching the West . . . again, then we must begin by learning from these powerful witnesses to the saving love of Jesus Christ

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