{"id":8900,"date":"2025-03-24T12:50:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T16:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/highlands\/?post_type=team&#038;p=8900"},"modified":"2025-11-26T23:35:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T04:35:22","slug":"seth-veenstra","status":"publish","type":"team","link":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/highlands\/team\/seth-veenstra\/","title":{"rendered":"Seth Veenstra"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<section class=\"y-intro guten-block \">\r\n\t<div class=\"y-intro--upper\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"grid-narrow\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"y-intro--upper--row\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"y-intro--upper--left\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"y-intro--title\">Seth Veenstra<\/h2>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"y-intro--content\"><p><button class=\"keela-popup-button\" style=\"background: var(--color-aoda); border: 1px solid var(--color-aoda); color: #fff; border-radius: 0.3rem; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.1rem; padding: 1rem 1.25rem; text-decoration: none; box-shadow: none;\" data-src=\"https:\/\/give-can.keela.co\/embed\/TRnZnGemZSioN9TzQ\">GIVE TO SETH&#8217;S MINISTRY<\/button><\/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\t<div class=\"y-intro--upper--right\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"y-c-img extend\">\n\t\t<div class=\"y-c-img--extend tall\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/yfc.ca\/highlands\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2025\/03\/9.-E-2025-HYFC-Staff-Retreat-D1_0049-e1764101275916.jpg);\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"y-c-img--contain\">\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/highlands\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2025\/03\/9.-E-2025-HYFC-Staff-Retreat-D1_0049-e1764101275916.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\r\n\t<div class=\"y-intro--lower\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"grid-narrow\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"y-intro--lower--left\">\r\n\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4 class=\"y-intro--lower--title\">Contact<\/h4>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"y-intro--lower--contact\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li><label>Email<\/label> <a href=\"mailto:sveenstra@yfch.ca\">sveenstra@yfch.ca<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li><label>Website<\/label> <a href=\"yfch.ca\/Seth\" target=\"_blank\">yfch.ca\/Seth<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"y-intro--lower-content\"><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Seth has always had a passion for serving youth and building community. After he moved to Orangeville in 2024, he discovered Youth Unlimited | YFC Highlands drop-in program at The Door through a church connection. He began to volunteer there a few times a month, building relationships through music and art. Drawing on previous experiences working with youth as a program assistant at a skills and activity centre, both he and the staff found he fit in quite well. He became a member of the Highlands team a few months later. Seth sees his work with youth as a natural expression of the love he draws on every day: \u201cGod\u2019s unending love gives me the assurance, peace and confidence I need to navigate the hills and valleys of this life \u2013 and to respond to my calling to minister to the youth in our community.\u201d He lives in Orangeville with his wife, Bonnie, who is a pastor and their young son, who is a budding paleontologist.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t\t\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\r\n<\/section>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":9554,"parent":0,"template":"","department":[65,28],"class_list":["post-8900","team","type-team","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/highlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team\/8900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/highlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/highlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/team"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/highlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/highlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team\/8900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/highlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/highlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"department","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/highlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/department?post=8900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}