September has been an incredibly fun, albeit a little rocky, start to our youth year! I am so grateful for all of your involvement and I have very much enjoyed getting to know so many new youth and families. If you have not had the chance to connect with me yet please come and say hi, I can usually be found in the church foyer before and after the youth program. In this e-mail you should hopefully be able to get some updates about what we are doing for the month of October. We will aim to stick as closely to the program as we can, but I simply ask for your patience as we may have to make adjustments as we go.

COVID
As expected, the government has applied some restrictions to social gatherings and to places of worship. I do not intend to close our doors or end our programs as I feel strongly that the benefit of community on the mental and spiritual health of people, and especially young people, is great and needs to be provided. However, at this moment the government is not asking us to close our doors, they are mandating masks and asking us to practice physical distancing. Further we have been asked to reduce our capacity limits to 1/3 of our fire code. This means we can only have 83 students at our youth program. Our current average is 40 students each week. So at this time, we simply ask that students wear masks, and otherwise the program will continue as it has.