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Wed, 28 Jun 2006
Jun 28, 2006, 14:33
[top/ministries/kids]
Don’t Miss Out - Summer Day Camp!
Don’t Miss Out!
Summer Day Camp
A week full of fun activities, Bible stories, skits, crafts, snacks, sports and games for children ages 5-13!
Place: Drop-off and pick-up at Philpott Memorial Church, 84 York Blvd, Hamilton. Weather-permitting we will be walking to Central Park (Bay Street North) together each day.
Date: Monday July 24 - Friday July 28 (Registration Monday 8:45am)
Time: 9am - Noon
All Children Ages 5-13 are welcome
Cost: FREE!!!
Please contact Christine at the church 905.527.4802 ext. *817 with any questions.
Please make sure your child arrives with sunscreen, hat, swimsuit and towel each day for water activities at Central Park.
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Thu, 02 Feb 2006
Feb 02, 2006, 15:09
[top/ministries/TrueCity]
TrueCity Conference February 24-25, 2006
The 40 Days of Mercy last Fall gave us a foundation for making a difference in our city. More than twenty ministry teams have been launched to implement our intentions to build a great city. Many more of our attendees are seeking to connect to the community in significant ways. A conference has been scheduled that will help motivate the curious and connect the motivated.
Two years ago, leaders from Philpott Church, Hughson Street Baptist Church, and First Christian Reformed Church met to discuss their similar desires to live out the implications of the Gospel in our city. Those discussions led to the formation of TrueCity (reflective of Jeremiah 29:7, ‘seek the peace of the city’). Dave Witt and Greg Reader, local inner city workers with International Teams Canada, agreed to serve as facilitators of monthly interactions and an annual conference. The annual conference was launch in April 2004, to bring together believers from across the city who desire to ‘seek the peace of the city.’
Key to the development of this movement of congregations was the example of Hughson Street Baptist Church, led by Dwayne Cline. This North End congregation has invested in neighbourhood ministry for more than a decade, pushing the limits of self-giving for the sake of Christ. Through the provision of a strategic gift, First Christian Reformed hired Tim Sheridan as an outreach coordinator. Tim’s ministry experience came out of Manhattan’s Redeemer Presbyterian Church, pastured by Tim Keller (author of the book we used together last year, Ministries of Mercy). Philpott began to organize our similar efforts with the hiring of Christine Vaughan as our Director of Urban Ministries. These three quite different churches have been joined this year by Wentworth Baptist and Bethany Gospel.
The second conference is scheduled for February 24-25, 2006. It will be held in our facilities at Philpott. That’s a good place to begin a prayerful quest to discover how your spiritual gifts and talents might make a difference in our quest to remake Hamilton. You can register with Christine Vaughan, at the signup table, or directly at the website (www.truecity.ca). Student discounts are available.
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Fri, 23 Sep 2005
Sep 23, 2005, 12:32
[top/ministries/youth]
Re*Create
Submitted by Betty Brouwer
Re-create is an open arts studio in downtown Hamilton, where street-involved youth can begin to re-connect to themselves, others, and their community through the creative arts while gaining valuable life skills. It seeks to provide a non-judgmental studio space for the youth. Re-create believes that the act of creating is not only a form of self-expression but also provides the potential for imagining new possibilities.
Re-create is a non-profit organization based on the principles of Christian love and compassion. We are building partnerships with the community -with local churches, schools, businesses, individuals and government organizations.
This fall we received funding from the Hamilton Community Foundation to run Creative Connections:
You Me Art Time , a focus art expression group for street-involved and/or at risk youth and their young children. The initial group will meet at Philpott on Friday afternoons for 4 weeks. Courtney Wilson, a member of the oXyGEN group volunteers and helps to organize the program.
Focused art activities will be provided to encourage the development of healthy parent-child interaction. Creating together provides meaningful, memory-building times which enhance the healthy bond between parent and child. This time will provide an accessible art experience for socially and economically disadvantaged youth-parented families.
Both Courtney and I are excited about this program. We are very thankful to Philpott for its warm hospitality and generosity in providing us with a space to meet. We ask for your continued prayers for Re*create Outreach Art Studio and the youth and their children who will be attending.
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Fri, 16 Sep 2005
Sep 16, 2005, 14:38
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Two Poor Villages Separated by Hope
By Danielle Major
Wabaseemong. It’s Ojibwe for “White Dog”, a Native reserve about one and one half hour North of Kenora. I spent a week in July there volunteering with a kids’ summer program run by Agidasin Initiatives, a Christian organization whose goal is to “see every aboriginal young person living life to the fullest”. I knew the community was very poor, and that it being a reserve there would be cultural differences, but really, how different could the circumstances there be from downtown Hamilton? I left Whitedog with a heavy heart and an overwhelming feeling of helplessness.
A teenage boy had committed suicide the day I arrived, so the volunteer team decided to cancel all formal activities for the week out of respect. We decided just to be available to hang out and talk with the kids, many of whom knew the boy who had died. In talking with these kids, I was shocked at how unaffected they all seemed by this suicide, given what a small community they lived in. One of the leaders there said “They are affected by it. It’s so common here that they’ve become numb to it, like it’s normal. They don’t see the tragedy in it anymore. That’s how they’re affected.” Normal. Addiction is “normal” there, too. On this particular reserve the product of choice is paint thinner. Unemployment is also “normal.” Kenora is too far to go for work and there are virtually no jobs on the reserve. This only grazes the surface of what is “normal” in White Dog. It doesn’t even begin to describe the complicated social and economic problems common to many reserves throughout Canada. During my time there, I was overwhelmed by the problems on the reserve and even more so by the prospect of how to resolve some of these issues.
I also spent some time working in medical clinics in small villages surrounding Ayapata high in the Andes mountains of Peru (through Medical Ministry International). There was poverty there, too. Some people didn’t have enough food. Most people didn’t have access to proper medical care. In fact, the people of Ayapata are probably quite a bit poorer in terms of material things that the people of White Dog. There is no welfare or food stamps there. But there is one overwhelming difference between the two communities: Hope. The people of Ayapata exude hope. You could see it in their faces when you played volleyball with them in the dusty street, when you handed them their little bag of medication. They have hope that their little village will grow, that its economic situation will improve, and in the meantime they will keep farming their potatoes and raising their chickens.
And then there is Whitedog. There is hope there, too, in some of the children. Many of the children I spoke with had dreams of being teachers, lawyers, veterinarians, hairstylists, just to name a few. How do you mend a community that is so broken, a people who have in many ways lost their identity because they have lost touch with their traditional way of life, their ancestry and their values? The question is so big, the task so daunting, that thinking about it fills me with a sense of helplessness and hopelessness - until I remember that God loves the people of Whitedog. He is there helping them through the work Agidasin Initiatives. He is there speaking to them through the very small but slowly growing church present on the reserve. And He is there through me, leading me to the reserve this summer to show me the brokenness so that I would come to have a heart for these people. So that you could read this and come to have a heart for them, too.
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Sep 16, 2005, 14:38
[top/ministries/seniors]
Seniors Ministry Growing
By Dawna Vyse
Yes, it has been a very hot summer but each Tuesday morning approximately 35 of us kept nice and cool in the chapel and had a good time of fellowship. We continued our “games time” each week with a few of our regulars coming and going throughout the summer.
But a good time was had by all as we played dominoes, scrabble, crokinole or skip-bo. We passed on the shuffleboard as the gym was too warm for that game. But, as the gym was empty, we took the opportunity to make a nice change. The floor was stripped down of wax and lines and circles from previous groups, and a third shuffleboard court was added. On Tuesday mornings we often had people wanting to play and not enough room or equipment for them. Now we have the room and a new set of equipment.
This year we have been delighted to have had 6 or 7 new people come to join us. As we add to our numbers, we don’t ever want to say we don’t have room for them. So now we have room for YOU! Come along on Tuesdays at 9:30 for games, coffee break, devotions and a good time of fellowship with other folks “55 and up”!!
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Sep 16, 2005, 14:38
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Roots Group Digs Deeper
By Ben Hartford
Since the end of January, the Roots Group has been meeting at our home weekly for fun and challenging times in God’s Word.
Together with our leaders-in-training James and Lia Dean, Barb and I have led the group through the first 2½ books of a Bible study series called “Walking With God.” This excellent resource guides participants through various stages of discipleship. We learn everything from how to dig deeper in God’s Word to a thorough investigation of each person’s unique God-given gifts and abilities. The goal is to help people grow in their walk with God to the point where they are serving Christ in their areas of strength and impacting the lives of others.
Here are some comments from participants:
- The people are a fantastic bunch! Committed to walking with God, or at least trying our best, and encouraging one another weekly… I’m excited about this group. I’m learning and growing tons… and we do food well.
- I appreciate the scripture-based curriculum, which does not emphasize ‘feelings’ over substance, but combines the two.
- I want to say how wonderful the whole group experience has been. There is a very committed and godly group of people assembled each week and new relationships have certainly formed.
If this sounds like the kind of thing you would like to be involved in, the good news is that we plan to launch new Roots Groups from time to time, beginning September 2006. We’ll be in touch!
Until next time, for the Roots Group.
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