Placement Update: RE-Create
Arissa reports on Rianna’s placement with RE-create RE-create Outreach Art Studio is a wonderful haven in our city where youth aged 16-24 can gather each week during designated drop-in times […]
Remembering – A word (& a lot of photos) on Pittsburgh & Placements
After returning from our trip to Pittsburgh last week, I sat with a coffee and scanned through our photos. A visit to Lamppost Farm that provided amazing food for thought […]
Placement Update: CityKidz
CityKidz is a well-known and well-loved organization in Hamilton that works with inner-city children. They teach these kids to dream big dreams and realize their full potential through singing, dancing, […]
Placement Update: Open Homes Hamilton
Placements are now well underway across the city! Each week this term we will be giving insight into the exciting things happening as our students engage in these experiences. Autumn […]
An Invitation to Hospitality
These past few weeks at Act Five have centred on the idea of being faithful in our local context. The students set goals for the semester and as placements have […]
A Word from the Director
Exactly one year ago… I remember sitting in my office sifting through our first handful of applications. Act Five was still just an idea being worked out in schedules, marketing […]
Stoney Lake and the Start of Term Two
Our students are back after the holidays, and we kicked off semester two with what was supposed to be winter camping. Due to uncooperative weather, this trip for camping turned […]
End of Act Five’s Term One – A final note
Halfway there, we enter Christmas break grateful for all that God is doing in Act Five. Within almost every community I have been a part of, the idea of finishing […]
Celebration at the End of An Adventure
Our students are on their way home! This weekend they will enjoy some site-seeing at a game park before beginning their trek home to Canada. They will arrive back in […]
Slowing Down to be Hands and Feet
Jamie, one of our students currently in Lundazi, Zambia, writes the following reflection: This hasn’t been a romanticized version of a vacation or a trip. We, as humans, constantly have […]
