ACS is preparing graduates to seize life’s challenges and opportunities, inspiring them with courage and conviction to shape God’s world as the next generation of Christian leaders. This fund is used to ensure quality Christian education is an option for families who normally couldn’t afford it, and this is one way we can uphold the promise we made to support families in bringing up their children in the faith at baptism.

There are an estimated 1 billion people facing hunger and malnutrition worldwide, 16% of these people experience acute hunger due to famine and drought.

World Renew is a member of Canadian Foodgrains Bank and shares its mission of ending global hunger.

The Canadian Foodgrains Bank is a partnership of 15 Canadian churches and church-based agencies focused on ending global hunger by working with locally-based organizations in developing countries to meet emergency food needs and to achieve long-term solutions to hunger.

Through our membership in Canadian Foodgrains Bank, World Renew’s capacity to provide disaster response and food security programs on a global scale has grown over the years.

The Cyrus Centre responds to youth, age 18 and under, living in crisis, whose lives have become fractured. Service provisions include food, shelter, clothing, showers and laundry facilities, a telephone, computer and employment coaching. Thousands of meals are served each year. Through these opportunities Cyrus Centre Ministries guides these young citizens of tomorrow into stabilized, sustainable futures and hope-filled lives. They have locations in Abbotsford and Chilliwack.

The Salvation Army provides services including emergency food hampers, clothing and furniture, emotional support, life skills training, meal centre, supportive independent living suites, 25 bed emergency shelter, nurse medical support, thrift store, nutritious school snack program and seasonal initiatives including mobile watering stations and responding to firefighter needs. The Salvation Army provides the support that many people need so they can take the first steps to begin to build a better, hope-filled life.