Christmas at Teen Challenge centres across Canada

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

It was another very nice Christmas day at the Teen Challenge centres across Canada. For most students (residents) in our care, it was the very first Christmas most can remember where they have been 'sober, clean from drugs and starting to feel healed and whole again'.

This is all thanks to the Lord's life-giving power in each life - and also thanks to so many friends for their generosity helping us year after year. Special thanks goes out to friends, churches, small businesses and others who donated new clothing and other practical gifts to help us assemble a nice gift bag for each student. The smiling photos at two of our centres tell the story about a wonderful heart-change taking place in each life - and their thankfulness to the Lord and friends of Teen Challenge for what many have done to help out.

The New Year will bring many more young men, women and adults through our doors, each seeking an answer to their life-controlling drug and alcohol problem. Thankfully we can offer them much more than a program; we offer them a personal relationship with a living God who really can give hope, healing and deliverance to each life in need!

Teen Challlenge continues to be totally dependent on the gifts of friends to help us provide quality care, training and curriculum for each student in our care.

It's not too late to send a year-end gift to help Teen Challenge. Just pick the centre of your choice and visit us at https://www.teenchallenge.ca/ways-to-help/donate to give your gift.

Thank you to each friend of this ministry for making these good things possible.

Happy New Year!

George Glover

Yesterday I was privileged to participate in a service near downtown Toronto where both our men's choir and our ladies from the Teen Challenge GTA women's centre also sang! What a wonderful sight to see lives being changes through the ministry of Teen Challenge! Evangel Temple in Toronto, the host church for this Sunday morning outreach, has been a huge supporter helping us get our women's centre open just north of Toronto. A great team effort indeed! It will be interesting to see what the Lord has in store for Teen Challenge in the GTA in the years to come... and also for Evangel Temple, under the leadership of their new pastor and old friend, Pastor Gary Beesley.

If you live or visit Toronto, Canada, I encourage you to drop in for a tour of the new Teen Challenge women's centre campus, just north of the city. Garry Cox and his good staff are doing a great job reaching out to young ladies in need. Just give them a call at 905-727-3913 or go to http://www.teenchallenge.ca/locations/tcgta to view pictures of this wonderful new ministry!

Until next time!