Youth Program

Kari Enns

Youth and Peace Coordinator

403-275-6935

toll-free 1-888-622-6337

 

 

 

 

   

CASA: Community Awareness through Service and Action is a program that is offered all year round through MCC Alberta. Its aim is to provide local learning and serving opportunities in Calgary by providing groups with a first hand look at poverty and homelessness. We have partnered with several local agencies who will offer presentations and service opportunities for youth. Each CASA program is created around the needs of the group; it may last between 1-5 days and costs are adjusted according to food and lodging needs. Contact Kari for more information. 

 

 

Summerbridge is a program for participants aged 17 years and older who are from ethnically diverse congregations. The goals of the Summerbridge program are to strengthen the participant’s relationship with the home congregation and community, experience the fulfillment of Christian service, develop leadership skills and build new friendships.

 

We hope that Summerbridge assignments will benefit both the workers and the communities in which they serve. We want to help participants develop their gifts and share them with their home church. Opportunities may include: providing organized activities for youth and children; working with the elderly in the community; organizing a summer Bible camp for local children; assisting newcomers to Canada with resettlement; church building maintenance and many other possibilities. MCC is looking to foster leadership in participants while providing a service to the congregation they serve.

 

Summerbridge participants serve for 12 or 17 weeks over the summer in an assignment that will be decided upon with their pastor and the MCC Alberta Youth Worker. Affiliation with Anabaptist churches is preferred although like-minded applicants and churches are also encouraged to apply.