We are working on two really exciting projects at The Freeway that I want to tell you a little bit about. Both of these initiatives will begin in September, if we can get them off the ground.

Children's Mentoring Initiative
The first one is an after-school mentoring/tutoring initiative for kids in our neighbourhood. Our neighbourhood is called Beasley and it's the poorest neighbourhood in Hamilton.

We really believe that if you change a kid, you change the world. We are creating a program where kids can come to The Freeway once a week after school and receive a healthy meal, one-on-one mentoring, and a lesson in the arts [painting, writing, photography, music, DJing, etc.]

Missional Training Initiative
We are also exploring the possibility of running an intern/gap-year initiative. Where we invite 18-30 year olds to come and live here for 10 months and learn what it means to live missionally in the urban centre.

We would have two tracks: [1] life coaching - where students can explore what it means to live missionally, regardless of what field they end up in [and hopefully, they will gain a love for the urban centre]. [2] church planting - where we teach/coach and give experience in the art of urban church planting.

Both tracks will consist of teaching sessions, experience at the coffee house, living in community, one-on-one mentoring, leadership development, missional opportunities, life change.

I will elaborate more on both of these initiatives soon.

Peace.

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