{"id":3,"date":"2020-10-19T17:57:13","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T21:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/youthforchrist.flywheelsites.com\/highlands\/about\/"},"modified":"2025-05-21T13:51:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T17:51:29","slug":"our-mission","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/highlands\/our-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\n<section class=\"y-logo-banner guten-block\">\r\n\t<div class=\"grid-narrow\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"y-logo-banner--row\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"y-logo-banner--left\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"y-logo-banner--title\">Our Mission<\/h1>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"y-logo-banner--content\"><blockquote>\n<h4>Every young person living fully in Christ!<\/h4>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are a Christian, faith-based movement. Our leader and model is Jesus, as described in the Christian Bible. Jesus said, \u201cpeople will know you are my followers because of your love for one another\u201d (The Gospel of John, paraphrased).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our faith compels us to serve the world around us with love and compassion by meeting its practical needs. In particular, we are called to serve young people in our communities. As we do so with the same humility and servant attitude as Jesus, it is our hope that we will be asked, &#8220;Will you tell me more about Jesus?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"y-logo-banner--right\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"y-logo-banner--bg-container\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg class=\"y-logo-banner--svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 76 113\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<polygon fill=\"none\" stroke=\"#000000\" stroke-width=\"0.5\" points=\"26 0, 76 0, 76 75, 38 113, 38 75, 0 75, 0 25\"\/>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<polygon fill=\"none\" stroke=\"#000000\" stroke-width=\"0.5\" points=\"31 12, 64 12, 64 46, 57 53, 57 19, 24 19\"\/>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/svg>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"y-logo-banner--bg\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/yfc.ca\/highlands\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2020\/10\/fcs-med-youthstrategy-600x396-1.png);\"><\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n\n\n<section class=\"y-columned-content white one left  guten-block\" >\r\n\t<div class=\"grid-narrow\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"y-columned-content--title y-color-responsive-text\">Our Vision<\/h3>\r\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"y-columned-content--inner\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"y-columned-content--column y-color-responsive-text\"><p><em><strong>(To see) Youth engaged in healthy community, experiencing meaning and purpose in the present, and looking forward to a future filled with hope and overflowing with possibility!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many youth today find life difficult. There are significant pressures: school, career decisions, who they are, and friendships to name a few. Add peer pressure and substance abuse and things can turn from \u201cdifficult\u201d to \u201cbad\u201d quickly. Mental <em>health<\/em> often takes a hit.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We simply want to come alongside youth and help them sort it out.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n\n\n\r\n<section class=\"y-vfbc  guten-block triangle white single-col-align-left\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"y-vfbc--triangle bottom-right primary has-bg-img\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/yfc.ca\/highlands\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2020\/10\/Vector-16.jpg);\"><\/div>\r\n\t<div class=\"grid-narrow\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"y-vfbc--row\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"y-vfbc--container type-one-wide color-default bg-transparent\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"y-vfbc--content\"><h3>Our Philosophy<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Building authentic relationships with youth\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Employing creative and context sensitive programming<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Serving out of a deep sense of calling<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Energized by passion and empowered by gifting<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Growing empowered leaders from within<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leveraging capacity through volunteer engagement<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Partnering with local churches and agencies<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trusting God for it all!<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n\n\n<section class=\"y-columned-content white one left  guten-block\" >\r\n\t<div class=\"grid-narrow\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"y-columned-content--title y-color-responsive-text\">Our Approach<\/h3>\r\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"y-columned-content--inner\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"y-columned-content--column y-color-responsive-text\"><p>We meet the needs of young people through two approaches:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Core Programs<\/strong>, seen to be successful nationwide<\/li>\n<li><strong>Grassroots Initiatives<\/strong>, responding to the unique needs and interests of each community<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Our Movement<\/h3>\n<p>We are proudly part of the global movement of Youth for Christ, in over 120 nations and serving Canadian youth from Glace Bay, NS to Victoria, BC.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button primary\" href=\"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/about\/our-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OUR NATIONAL HISTORY<\/a> \u00a0 <a class=\"button primary\" href=\"http:\/\/www.yfci.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">THE GLOBAL MOVEMENT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/highlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/highlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/highlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/highlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/highlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/highlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/highlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}