{"id":822,"date":"2021-02-18T23:14:18","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T07:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/victoria\/?post_type=team&#038;p=822"},"modified":"2025-09-05T17:09:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T00:09:44","slug":"rick","status":"publish","type":"team","link":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/south-island\/team\/rick\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Wismer"},"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\">Rick Wismer<\/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\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"y-intro--buttons\">\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<a class=\"button primary\" href=\"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/south-island\/donate\/?category=Ministry%20of%20a%20Staff%20Member&#038;staff_des=Rick%20Wismer\" target=\"_self\">Support Rick&#039;s ministry<\/a>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\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 medium\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/yfc.ca\/south-island\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2023\/03\/Rick-2023.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\/south-island\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2023\/03\/Rick-2023.jpg\" alt=\"Rick Wismer\" \/>\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\">Mobile Outreach Director<\/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:rick@yfcvictoria.com\">rick@yfcvictoria.com<\/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<\/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\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\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<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>While driving through Pauquachin First Nation on the Saanich Peninsula in 2005, Rick sensed God say, \u201cYou will be coming back here.\u201d God then opened the door at Pauquachin and later to other to indigenous communities in the Greater Victoria area and in Duncan.<\/p>\n<p>Rick is passionate about sharing the good news of Jesus Christ with Indigenous youth and seeing them become devoted Christ followers. His vision is to empower Indigenous youth to boldly share their love of Jesus Christ with faith in action.<\/p>\n<p>Rick was born in Macklin, Saskatchewan (yes, he is a proud stubble-jumper). He is married and has two grown sons. He loves backpacking, camping and canoeing in the great outdoors, and he enjoys building and repairing things in his workshop.<\/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},"author":19,"featured_media":2224,"parent":0,"template":"","department":[14],"class_list":["post-822","team","type-team","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/south-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team\/822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/south-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/south-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/team"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/south-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/south-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team\/822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/south-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/south-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"department","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/south-island\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/department?post=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}