{"id":781,"date":"2021-02-08T11:40:24","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T17:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/westman\/?p=781"},"modified":"2021-02-09T11:00:07","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T17:00:07","slug":"making-connections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/westman\/making-connections\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Connections"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
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\u201cI like my coffee strong with lots of cream and sugar.<\/span> That\u2019s why I\u2019m glad I get to make it on Sundays at my church, cause I get to make it the way I want to drink it.<\/span> And I drink a lot of it.<\/span> I love to play my guitar there too, but with <\/span>all the restrictions I can\u2019t do that now. I hope by Christmas it\u2019s all over so <\/span>I can play again.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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That was our conversation this morning.<\/span> A year ago, I was talking with C about the church that used our mainfloor for their weekly meetings.<\/span> He\u2019d been going there for the free food, until the pastor discovered C. could play guitar.<\/span> That\u2019s when he was recruited into the worship team, and that\u2019s when C. started to call it \u201chis church\u201d.<\/span> C. has been homeless, kinda off an on like a <\/span>lot of other things in his life.<\/span> He\u2019s off an on employed, off and on eating healthy, off and on a lot of things.<\/span> One thing that has been consistent for him this last year has been his faith community.<\/span> Something we prayer for while he lived with us in Uturn, but never saw the fruit of those prayers until now.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Our mandate is to serve among young people.<\/span> At some point they grow up and move on from being apart of our regular ministries.<\/span> Although we continue to be in relationship with many of them, it\u2019s different.<\/span> One <\/span>of the realities that Covid has illuminated is the value of our larger faith <\/span>community.<\/span> As people have suffered with more and more isolation, stress and anxiety, many of our local Christian leaders have stepped up and invested more and more of themselves in their congregations.<\/span> It is hugely encouraging to hear C. tell his story and how he\u2019s found a home and a place to belong.<\/span> That is our prayer for all of the youth we get to serve among.<\/span> That they will find a place to belong among others who are following Jesus as well.<\/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},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cI like my coffee strong with lots of cream and sugar. That\u2019s why I\u2019m glad I get to make it on Sundays at my church, cause I get to make it the way I want to drink it…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","tag-youth"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/westman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/westman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/westman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/westman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/westman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/westman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/westman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/westman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/westman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yfc.ca\/westman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}