{"id":35,"date":"2020-10-19T18:52:20","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T22:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/youthforchrist.flywheelsites.com\/eastern-counties-ontario\/?page_id=35"},"modified":"2023-04-11T17:18:19","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T21:18:19","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/eastern-counties-ontario\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\n<section class=\"y-banner  guten-block\">\r\n\t<div class=\"y-banner--container\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"y-banner--inner\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"y-banner--inner--bg left\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/yfc.ca\/eastern-counties-ontario\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2021\/07\/IMG_2138-scaled.jpg);\"><\/div>\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"grid-narrow\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"y-banner--inner--content\"><h2>About Us<\/h2>\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"y-banner--lower\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"grid-narrow\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"y-banner--lower--row\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"y-banner--lower--content\"><h4><b>Strategic Plan<\/b><\/h4>\n<p>There are over 10,000 young people in our five local counties. It is our belief that through strategic partnerships with local school and community organizations, we will reach out to all these young people and help them attain their full life potential.<\/p>\n<p>Implementing this Strategic Plan\u00a0would entail expanding our active presence to all secondary schools in our counties. The goal is to have a YFC\u00a0team assigned to each school to work, as volunteers, within the school in whatever capacity required by the school leadership. Associated with this team would be such community\u00a0facilities and programs as drop-in centres, community houses, shelters, street ministry, etc. where students could safely develop their relationships with the YFC team. As well, our mission strategy has the YFC teams actively engaged with summer camps to establish relationships which would carry on into their high school years.\u00a0 Our ministry is involved in caring in ways that are relevant to this generation.<\/p>\n<p>Strategies that change lives are our focus. Impacting today\u2019s culture, training tomorrow\u2019s leaders and caring for Canada\u2019s youth requires never ending creative strategy development. We start with the premise that <u>we don\u2019t know<\/u> the needs of the youth in a particular area; we then set out to find the \u2018greatest felt need\u2019 in the community, school, neighbourhood etc. for the youth.\u00a0 This is done by building relationships with youth, principals, teachers, community leaders and parents.\u00a0 Once we identify the \u2018felt needs\u2019, we set out to meet them \u2013 as we successfully meet\/address these \u2018needs\u2019 we build genuine credibility for the ministry.<\/p>\n<h4>Our Vision<\/h4>\n<p>Our vision is a community where all teens &#8211; no matter what their means or circumstance \u2013 thrive in relationships of love and care where the individual\u2019s physical, emotional, spiritual, social and intellectual needs are met.<\/p>\n<h4>Our Mission<\/h4>\n<p>We aim to develop each of these areas through meaningful relationships so that all youth may reach their full potential. Our goal is to establish culturally relevant outreach programs for today\u2019s youth, run by Youth for Christ youth workers, that will model the love of God and communicate the life-changing message of Jesus Christ. We combine healthy relationships with creative programs to help young people make good choices and establish a solid foundation for principled living. We are committed to communicating the person, work and teachings of Jesus Christ and discipling young believers into the Church in ways that are responsible, effective and culturally sensitive.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/section>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-35","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/eastern-counties-ontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/eastern-counties-ontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/eastern-counties-ontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/eastern-counties-ontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/eastern-counties-ontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/eastern-counties-ontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/eastern-counties-ontario\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}