PerkopolisBigs and Littles-- Remember we told you about that awesome website Perkopolis , where you can get sweet discounts for so many activities? Contact our office if you've forgotten our Member ID! Ontario Science Centre Community Pass ProgramBigs and Littles-- Remember to contact our office if you want a really great deal on passes to the Ontario Science Centre! The Little Big Activity AppWe have an App! Android and iPhone users can download the Little Big Activity App to find creative activities to do together or find an event in the area to attend.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Ajax-Pickering have joined forces to implement a sports program for the children we serve, and we need someone to champion it!For the position description and to apply, click here . Ride for Kids' Sake 2014On Saturday, September 6, join us for our annual Ride for Kid's Sake! All four agencies in Durham Region are teaming up for a day of riding, food, and entertainment. For more information about the event and how you can get involved, click here . Golf for Kids' Sake 2014On Thursday, September 18, join us for our annual Golf for Kid's Sake! This year, we'll be hitting the greens at Kedron Dells Golf Club.Do you love pizza?Make Boston Pizza Whitby South your regular pizza destination!
In 1903, a Cincinnati businessman looked out his office window and noticed a little boy searching through some garbage for food. The man, Irving Westheimer, invited the boy, Tom, to a decent lunch. When he took Tom home and saw his family's appalling conditions, Westheimer offered the boy's widowed mother and oldest sister jobs in his factory. As the friendship between man and boy flourished, Irving convinced other men at his club to begin similar relationships. It was one of these boys who coined the phrase Big Brother. In December 1970, Big Brothers of York was incorporated. Its mandate was to provide boys from father-absent homes with friendship by matching them with Big Brothers. Serving the communities of Markham, Richmond Hill, Vaughan, Newmarket, Aurora, King, East Gwillimbury, Georgina and Whitchurch-Stouffville, as well as Bradford West Gwillimbury, Big Brothers Big Sisters of York today offers five quality mentoring programs to the Region's children. These programs help children who, with some extra attention, can strive to achieve their full potential and grow into adults who will contribute positively to society. Community supportand staff-driven fundraising events provide the major portion of the funding that enables the Agency to advocate on behalf of York Region and Bradford West Gwillimbury's children.
We provide a wide range of services, including hospital and home visitation, meal delivery, community programming, and case management. Many of our services are designed to meet the unique cultural needs of the Orthodox Jewish community.
a group of believers embarked on a mission to bring the message of the gospel to the Bloor Lansdowne area in a relevant and meaningful way. The membership moved into a converted truck garage on Bloor Street near Lansdowne Avenue establishing the Church of the Crusaders. Seven decades later the church, known today as Bloor Lansdowne Christian Fellowship, continues to meet the challenges of actively preaching and practicing the message of the gospel in relevant and meaningful ways to the local community.
Bloor Lansdowne Christian Fellowship is a small inner-city congregation with a BIG heart. On Sunday there were about 15 people in attendance in a sanctuary that seats about 300. The walls could use a coat of paint, and the sound system was acting up. By most external measures, it would appear to be a church in need of some help. Then on Wednesday evenings, the church fills up again. This time, it fills with the grateful chatter of nearly one hundred hungry people who enjoy the hospitality the church offers during their "Community Dinner". Dignity, Love and Respect are on the menu here. It is not a "soup kitchen". It is not a "food giveaway". It is a community dinner. Free to all who enter. It is a hot meal personally served at the table to every person that walks in the door. It is fellowship and friendly conversation with anyone who desires it. It is a gift of a week's supply of bread to those who ask. It is an hour's worth of entertainment by a talented folk singer. It is an evening of dignity displayed toward any person that enters. No questions asked except one: "Can we serve you?"
The contrast between Sunday and Wednesday is striking. On Sunday, fifteen people humbly bowing their heads and praying to the Father and listening to teaching from God's Word. On Wednesday, those same people reaching out to scores of needy people with a hot meal and the Love of Jesus. It is a ministry of love that quietly speaks volumes directly into the lives of the neediest people of Toronto. And I think Jesus smiles down on the Bloor-Lansdowne Christian Fellowship.
James 1:27: "Pure and undefiled religion before our God and Father is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself unstained by the world."
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Since 1982, Blue Door Shelters, a not-for-profit registered charitable agency (# 13057 1896 RR0001) governed by a volunteer Board of Directors, has been an integral part of our community providing emergency shelter for the homeless population of York Region.