Safe Families Annual PlayDay Fundraiser
On September 25th, you can PLAY to support families in need. You can walk, run, bike, swim, rollerblade, bake, play a game and much more. You can sign up as an individual, couple, as friends, family, or as a neighbourhood, or church. The funds raised will be used to support parents and children in crisis across our nation.
- To sign-up now, click here. To learn more about Safe Families Canada, visit safefamiliescanada.com or check out the Safe Families Facebook page for more information about how you can join the movement.
AFFILIATE AND COMMUNITY NEEDS
Find ways to love our neighbours in partnership with our affiliates and other organizations serving the community.
SERVING - FOR INDIVIDUALS
Adam House
- Walk or run with Adam House at the Scotiabank Virtual Toronto Marathon on Oct 16! You can either do this on your own route or join a socially-distanced group walk/run from Adam House Downtown (Bloor & Dufferin) to Adam House East (Queen & Carlaw). More details here.
Safe Families
- Drivers Needed
- To transport children of a family in crisis to a host family within the city or back again.
- Looking for a Regional Director for the Toronto region
- Do you have a passion for vulnerable families? Do you desire to serve God through loving the ‘least of these’? Do you like working with people and building teams? Are you a self-starter, assertive, organized, and have an entrepreneurial character? Are you a strong communicator who loves holding a team together with your skills, flexibility, and relationship building? Do you love details, administration, and a job well done? If so, consider joining Safe Families Toronto as their Regional Director. Job Description Details
- Sign-up to become a “Family Friend” to a segregated family in our city.
- Family Friends provide: love to parent(s) through encouragement; security and peace to parent(s) because they know someone sees them and cares about their well-being; knowledge and information they may not have; access to our extended church network; a shared desire for the security and well-being of their children; the Gospel hope of Jesus Christ; and possibly other tangible or service-based needs according to your comfort level and time.
- If you are interested, please contact Serena (here) for next steps.
Toronto City Mission
- Join a team of passionate and motivated individuals working towards bringing hope to children and families impacted by poverty.
- Looking for an Outreach Worker and a Role Model Moms Facilitator.
- For more information see: https://www.torontocitymission.com/job-opportunities
- As a Christ-centered organization, TCM believes in the power of prayer. During this time when we are all encouraged to stay home, TCM wanted to create a way for supporters like you to see, learn, and pray for communities impacted by poverty from the safety of your home. You can do this on your own or with your family, a group of friends, church members, etc..
- To gain access to our Virtual Prayer Walk material, please email Dorothy at info@torontocitymission.com.
- When you sign up, you will receive: a link to the virtual prayer walk video highlighting the needs in the community and prayer points; a PDF of the prayer items so that you can continue to pray for the community after the virtual prayer walkl and an opportunity to have a TCM staff member join you in your watch party via Zoom.
Fight4Freedom
- Fight4Freedom is an organization that works in the GTA with women, children and men enslaved in the sex trade. In addition, they offer aftercare, advocacy, and referral support to individuals who are ready and able to transition into alternate work.
- Looking for more volunteers, particularly outreach volunteers in the Toronto region and those who are interested in online outreach. For more information: https://www.fight4freedom.ca/volunteer.html
- Please join one of F4F's walk teams and invite your family and friends to join to help raise awareness and funds for F4F's work. To register, please visit here.
SERVING - FOR GRACE GATHERINGS
Safe Families
- Together, sign-up to become “Family Friends” to a segregated family in our city.
- Family Friends provide: love to the parent(s) through encouragement; security and peace to the parent(s) because they know someone sees them and cares about their well-being; knowledge and information they may not have; access to our extended church network; a shared desire for the security and well-being of their children; the Gospel hope of Jesus Christ; and possibly other tangible or service-based needs according to your comfort level and time.
- Interested members of your GG will attend a virtual information session, fill out an application, and complete the online training required by Safe Families. For more information, contact Serena (here).
Toronto City Mission
- As a Christ-centered organization, TCM believes in the power of prayer. During this time when we are all encouraged to stay home, TCM wanted to create a way for supporters like you to see, learn, and pray for communities impacted by poverty from the safety of your home. You can do this on your own or with your family, a group of friends, church members, etc..
- To gain access to our Virtual Prayer Walk material, please email Dorothy at info@torontocitymission.com.
- When you sign up, you will receive: a link to the virtual prayer walk video highlighting the needs in the community and prayer points; a PDF of the prayer items so that you can continue to pray for the community after the virtual prayer walk and an opportunity to have a TCM staff member join you in your watch party via Zoom.
FIght4Freedom
- Walk4Freedom on Sept 25th: Help raise funds, walk through Toronto areas where trafficking is known to occur, and pray together for an end to human trafficking.
- To register as group/donate: https://www.fight4freedom.ca/walk4freedom.html
TANGIBLE NEEDS
Adam House
- Donate a startup kit with essential items to help an Adam House resident set up their first kitchen after moving out (estimated cost ~$70). More details here.
- Donate to the renovation fund to help Adam House make some much needed changes. More details here.
Homeless Connect Toronto
- HCT is hosting a Fall Clothing drive in September. All fall or winter clothing is welcome, but of particular need are men’s and women’s clothing in sizes L, XL, 2XL and 3XL. Contact HCT for more details.
Yonge Street Mission
- Needed Items: baby diapers (size 6, the most popular), pull-ups (sizes 2T-3T, 3T-4T, 4T-5T), body soap/body wash, toothpaste, deodorant, body cream, toilet paper, razer and shaving cream
- For more information or to arrange drop off, please contact Eleanor at 647-466-1865 or eedwards@ysm.ca.
For more information contact: rosemarie@gracetoronto.ca
PRAYERS
Help love our neighbours by praying for them and the organizations that serve them.
+ ADAM HOUSE
Pray for new friendship, reconnections and safety as Adam House opens up for volunteers to return for outdoor social visits at limited capacity.
Prayer for joy and wisdom for the small staff team as they navigate the transition and continue ministering to the refugee community.
+ LIGHT PATROL
Light Patrol is grateful that they could run their hotel programs again! They are thankful for the youth that they have met so far. Please continue to keep Light Patrol, the youth, and the programs in your prayers!
A young woman, "A", has been doing a bible study with Karen. They have been studying what baptism means. "A" also recently shared her testimony with Karen! Another young woman, "E", and Nicole will be starting a bible study soon. Please pray for spiritual protection upon these young women and during their time with Light Patrol.
Please pray for all the 1:1 meetings with the youth. Please pray for wisdom to discern how to best support each individual, as they all need different support and are in different stages of life.
+ SAFE FAMILIES
Pray that God would provide a Regional Director who has a heart for the vulnerable in the city of Toronto, and would bring vision and direction to the movement.
Pray that Safe Families would be able to find volunteer drivers and family coaches to care for more families and children.
Pray that God would call members of our Grace Toronto community to find room in their homes, hearts, and lifestyles to become a Host Family for a child in need of a safe place to stay.
Pray that staff and volunteers would be able to find strength and motivation in the sacrificial love of Christ as they sacrificially love and serve children and parents in need of mercy and compassion.
Pray that God would support, comfort, and provide for the needs of families who struggle in isolation, now more than ever. Single mothers are carrying the full burden of parenting without any time to recharge.
+ SQUADS
As Squads transitions from summer into fall with schools reopening, pray for good connection with the kids and families that have come to Squads.
Pray for new kids to join and for families to be comfortable to let them come.
Pray for much fruit in these unpredictable times, that the gospel will take root in these young lives.
+ TORONTO CITY MISSION
Pray for connections made during summer camps to continue.
Pray for wisdom in running the various programs in the communities.
+ FIGHT4FREEDOM
Please pray for street and club outreach volunteers needs as well as Mandarin-speaking parlour outreach volunteers needs.
Please pray for an Advocacy Coordinator for Men to join our ministry department as we are developing and formalizing F4F's men's ministry.
Please pray for both financial provision and the right support for the survivors who are preparing for school in the fall.