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Monday, March 10th, 2025
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Organized Kaos exists to apprentice young people in life and trade inspiring hope and purpose.
We offer a safe environment in which young people work and learn alongside skilled trades
persons from local churches.
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2025
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K-Anthony
K-Anthony’s early musical experiences were in the church he grew up in Falmouth, Jamaica. Not happy to just sing the old hymns, he spent time reworking them to make them sound more like the music he heard around him.
Influenced by the island music, you can hear his love of Reggae, R&B and the sounds of his teenage years of bands such as Boys ll Men. His strong musicality shows his classical training gained through his Bachelor of Arts degree in music. K-Anthony’s songs are well crafted with lyrics front and center with a decidedly optimistic tone, but the underlying theme of his music is his love for God and hope for the future in his return. K-Anthony has a strong desire to bring people who feel lost and don’t know where to turn using his music as the medium for his message.
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Len Friesen
The Legacy Coalition Canada is connecting the generations to engage with one another in
loving, trusting relationships, and encourage each other to wholeheartedly follow Christ. Their desire is to inspire a movement of empowered and intentional grandparents to engage in effective family discipleship, so that future generations will know and follow Christ, and continue a Gospel legacy that outlives them. They also desire to encourage today’s grandparents to pursue a renewed passion for purposeful living through faith in Christ; telling every generation of the praiseworthiness of God. Through their efforts they seek to contribute purposeful, powerful and creative opportunities that strengthen biblical family relationships, promoting evangelism, and building up one another to know, love, and serve Christ.
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2025
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Rose City Kids is a place where children and youth can come and belong; where they experience the love of Jesus, are encouraged, and inspired to make a positive change in their world. They provide bi-weekly Saturday Kids programs; twice a week, Youth nights; a Tutoring program, a summer day camp and bi-weekly home visits. Started more than 15 years ago in downtown Welland, they now have more than 700 children and teens attending their various programs each week, along with over 130 volunteers that help out. Sonya believes that: “… everybody needs to feel like they belong. Everyone needs to feel loved by somebody. Everyone needs to feel part of a family. And if things are hard at home and we can be that family and we can be that safe place, I think that's important for every child.”
Our team visited them on a youth leadership night to see the program in action.
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Thursday, March 13th, 2025
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Eric Mainse
Eric Mainse has a love for people — a natural by-product of his love for Jesus!
Along with his supportive wife Kara, who serves as the Children’s Pastor at a local church in Waterdown, their children, Bradley, Grace, and new baby boy to arrive in December 2023, this young family strongly believes in the next generation of Christ followers. Eric is excited about the opportunity through Youth Unlimited YFC Waterdown to help inspire new “faith stories” of young people in the Waterdown area.
Eric’s passion for Youth Unlimited YFC and motivation to join the ministry actually comes from his grandfather. Back in June of 1953, a 16-year-old David Mainse attended a YFC rally at a high school auditorium in Ottawa, Ontario. That is where he gave his heart, energy and passion to Jesus Christ. These many years later, that same passion for Jesus lives on in his grandson. http://yfcwaterdown.com
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Chris Tomlin
Music video "Is He Worthy"
www.christomlin.com/
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Friday, March 14th, 2025
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Sean Rodriguez
Known for favored songs “Center Stage” (2023) and “Step Into My Story” (2022), released under former moniker Sean BE, this next-gen pastor-turned singer-songwriter—along with his young family—took a leap of faith when they uprooted from Colorado and firmly planted their homestead in Nashville, TN in 2022. The calling? To create Christ-centered music that expands upon Sean Rodriguez’s already established mission—and purpose—to inspire hope in today’s generations as they find their way toward God. “I want this music and its message to encourage as many families as possible right now,” exclaims Sean. “Ultimately, however, it’s our prayer that the seeds planted today will lead to incredible growth tomorrow. How awesome is the thought that God could use music to play a part in someone’s greater story!”
In November 2023, Sean received a surprise phone call from family that resulted in the writing of his upcoming single, “Jesus Will,” set to release July 2024. “It was completely unexpected,” recounts Sean, of the news that his aunt (only 48 years old) had suddenly passed. “It was a crazy feeling of both joy—knowing she was being welcomed Home—and complete heartbreak. ‘It’s not fair,’ I thought, ‘She did everything right in her life.’”
Sean’s grief, especially for the immediate family left in the wake of this loss, contributed to some of his most poignant and powerful lyrics to date:
“You felt hurt you never thought that you could know / Now you’ve got stories you never thought you would’ve told / But He is near the broken-hearted / He will finish what He promised / when there’s chaos all around, He’s still in control
Even now, God is in it still / When you can’t battle, Jesus will / There’s no life that He can’t use / There’s no loss He can’t shine through
When you can’t carry the weight of all you feel, Jesus Will”
Where does Sean turn to find even more inspiration? You might be surprised that at the root of it all—which, yes, includes Sean’s mesmerizing on-stage moves, commercial appeal, and rap repertoire—is to honor the legacy of his grandfather’s ministry that began over forty years ago. “He’s 70 years old, but when he gets up to preach the word of God, he’s singing, praising, and preaching with the energy of a young man,” Sean says lovingly of his grandfather, Pastor William A. Rodriguez. “His obedience to God is at the very core of my faith. His leadership in my life inspires purpose in my own walk with Christ, in addition to carrying his legacy of ministry work for the Kingdom.”
Sean concludes, “God gave us purpose, so we have to LIVE on purpose.”
To Him be the glory throughout all generations, forever and ever, Amen!
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