{"id":3,"date":"2020-10-19T17:57:13","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T21:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/youthforchrist.flywheelsites.com\/victoria\/about\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T16:29:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T23:29:59","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/south-island\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"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\/south-island\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2020\/11\/LD-Leadership-Training.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\"><h1 class=\"header-heading\">About YFC South Island<\/h1>\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\"><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/victoria\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2024\/10\/YFC-2024-Staff-Pic-2-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2609\" src=\"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/victoria\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2024\/10\/YFC-2024-Staff-Pic-2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"YFC South Island 2024 Staff\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1065\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/south-island\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2024\/10\/YFC-2024-Staff-Pic-2-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/yfc.ca\/south-island\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2024\/10\/YFC-2024-Staff-Pic-2-300x125.jpg 300w, https:\/\/yfc.ca\/south-island\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2024\/10\/YFC-2024-Staff-Pic-2-1024x426.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/yfc.ca\/south-island\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2024\/10\/YFC-2024-Staff-Pic-2-768x320.jpg 768w, https:\/\/yfc.ca\/south-island\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2024\/10\/YFC-2024-Staff-Pic-2-1536x639.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/yfc.ca\/south-island\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2024\/10\/YFC-2024-Staff-Pic-2-2048x852.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><strong>YFC South Island Staff<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4>Committed to Impacting Youth<\/h4>\n<p>YFC South Island is committed to impacting the youth of our region and our nation.<\/p>\n<p>We recognize the need to help train and equip young leaders with the values of Jesus, while demonstrating those values through the care of vulnerable and challenged teens.<\/p>\n<p>Our strategies reflect this balanced approach through diversity of ministry in partnership with the Body of Christ.<\/p>\n<h4>Bringing Hope<\/h4>\n<p>We embody the truth of Romans 10:14\u201315: &#8220;Unless we go, they will not hear.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is our desire to give the 60,000 young people in Greater Victoria, Nanaimo and Port Alberni an opportunity to hear about Jesus&#8217; love and plan for their lives.<\/p>\n<p>It is the reason for our passion behind our slogan, \u201cbringing Hope to every young person!&#8221;<\/p>\n<h4>YFC Canada Relationship<\/h4>\n<p>We see the hope and potential in every young person we meet and reach through community specific programs.<\/p>\n<p>YFC South Island is a chartered member of Youth for Christ Canada (<a href=\"https:\/\/yfc.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">yfc.ca<\/a>), an international, non-denominational Christian ministry who, for over 75 years, has passionately engaged young people to live their full life potential as designed by God.<\/p>\n<p>Motivated by our faith, we believe that transformed youth have the opportunity to transform communities, our country and the world.\u00a0 We engage and equip youth to know and follow Jesus.<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"y-banner--links\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4 class=\"y-banner--links--title\">Learning More<\/h4>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"y-banner--links--list\">\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<li><h5><a href=\"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/south-island\/our-team\/\" target=\"_self\">Our Staff<\/a><\/h5><\/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<li><h5><a href=\"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/south-island\/our-programs\/\" target=\"_self\">Our Programs<\/a><\/h5><\/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<li><h5><a href=\"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/south-island\/join-us\/\" target=\"_self\">Join Us<\/a><\/h5><\/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<li><h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/YouthForChristVictoria\/\" target=\"_blank\">Follow us on Facebook<\/a><\/h5><\/li>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\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":1,"featured_media":2609,"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","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/south-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/south-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/south-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/south-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/south-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/south-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/south-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/south-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}