NEW BLOG SITE!!!

Hi everybody,

I have created a new blog site that I hope would be easier for every one of us to interact on.

Please subscribe at the bottom of my newest website like you have before on this old blogger/blogspot. Thank you for all of your continued interest in my updates especially for your continued prayers and support.

Go here: http://juliusnaredo.wixsite.com/kuya

As always, please feel free to reach out for personal face-to-face updates over some coffee or activity.

God bless, love you all!
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#UPT20years

We are celebrating 20 years of ministry in Toronto Community Housing! 

• CELEBRATE •

You are invited to witness on May 5, 2018. Come for an evening of stories, music and special guests – stay for the reception and reunite with friends. 

"Nazareth! Can anything good come from there?" Nathanael asked 

(When he was told that the Messiah had been found, and he was from Nazareth- an obscure town with a bad reputation)

"Come and see," said Philip."

– John 1:46 (parenthesis added)

We are celebrating by calling out the stories of good- the hope, joy and success- that have come from where they were least expected. So "come and see" what God has done. 

• SUPPORT •

You're invited to Multiply the Impact, and become a Promise Partner. We're celebrating all year long with 100 new Promise Partners. As we look toward the next 20 years, we know that committed partners are a vital resource. 

Find out all the details here:

• BEAR WITNESS • 

Saturday, May 5 20187 PM. Doors open at 6:30 PM.

The Peoples Church Toronto

Tickets are FREE. Everyone is welcome! Please let us know if you can attend. 

Get free tickets here.

#MoveIn #PrayerJourney

The Prayer Journey is a day of vision and prayer that MoveIn has organized. I’ll be running 10 kilometres through North York through different parts of the city (“patches”) which have no MoveIn teams yet. These patches are areas with many unreached, urban poor people and MoveIn seeks to have teams of regular Christians prayerfully moving in to these areas to share Christ’s love. 

(#tb MoveIn - Jane & Finch patch)

Another aspect of the Prayer Journey is to raise money for the Global Vision Fund, which resources MoveIn’s work forming new teams around the world. Whether paying the conference fees for a college student (MoveIn’s annual conference is awesome!) or sending a staff member to a missions conference in Germany, this fund helps to expand the vision and reach of MoveIn globally.

I’m writing to ask if you’d consider sponsoring me in this 10km Prayer Journey - giving online is simple and would be a big encouragement to me! To donate, please click the picture below and you can pick my name 'Julius' from the drop-down list. My goal is $500.

Thanks for considering this - I really appreciate it!

March Break (Jr. High Youth) Retreat 2015 VIDEO

 #WhoDoYouFollow

Filmed & Edited by: "Melody" (UPT Camp Freedom YMAD intern)

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Thank you for all of your continued prayers and support!

If the Lord leads you to not just support me in prayer but investing financially as well, I would love and appreciate that very much as I am in huge need of ***MONTHLY SUPPORTERS***. Please view the "PRAYER & SUPPORT" section on the right side of this blog.

By supporting and partnering with me, you will have a direct impact on the ministry God has called me to.

Thank you for sharing in this opportunity with me to influence the lives of many of God’s people.

WASTED YEARS

I looked upon a farm one day,

That once I used to own;

The barn had fallen to the ground

The fields were overgrown

The house in which my children grew,

Where we had lived for years--

I turned to see it broken down,

And brushed aside the tears.

I looked upon my soul one day,

To find it too, had grown

With thorns and thistles everywhere

The seeds neglect had sown.

The years had passed while I had cared 

For things of lesser worth;

The things of heaven I let go

While minding things on earth.

To Christ I turned with bitter tears,

And cried, "O Lord, forgive!

I haven't much time left for Thee,

Not many years to live."

The wasted years forever gone,

The days I can't recall;

If I could live those days again,

I'd make him Lord of all.

- Unknown -

"KUYA" Facebook Lookback Video 2014

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Thank you for all of your continued prayers and support!

If the Lord leads you to not just support me in prayer but investing financially as well, I would love and appreciate that very much as I am in huge need of ***MONTHLY SUPPORTERS***. Please view the "PRAYER & SUPPORT" section on the right side of this blog.

By supporting and partnering with me, you will have a direct impact on the ministry God has called me to.

Thank you for sharing in this opportunity with me to influence the lives of many of God’s people.

UPT Tuesday Gathering UPdate (PRAYER REQUESTS)

[I shared this section of our Camp Freedom Update during
one of our 'UrbanPromise Toronto - Tuesday Gatherings']

"AFTER PARTY"

(aka Families, School, Alumni)

ROSE...Please pray for: 

• ...the continued communication and strengthening of relationships throughout the Jane and Finch community
• There has been improved communication with Christian Centre Church and Inner City Outreach on clear and unified missions, visions, updates, reports, programs, roles and expectations...all with the goal to glorify Him
• I have been able to visit homes as well as participate in other programs to keep in touch with past kids/youth, leaders, families...God has also given me those divine appointments as I “bump” into these people
• Even though we have been moved out of the Brookview M.S. building, we regularly pick up our youth in that school and also nearby stores. We still communicate with the students, teachers and other ASP programs

THORN...Please pray for:

• ...past StreetLeaders who have left the institutional church but are yet hungry for organic relationships with Jesus and His church
• ...past youth who have stopped coming to program for various reasons such as: bullying, fights amongst kids and/or their families, laziness (unwanted discipline), relocation, bad experience with institutional church, worldly success, misunderstanding, sin, etc.

BUD...Please pray for:

• ...our alumni StreetLeaders who continue to share the love of Jesus in the Jane and Finch community either through UrbanPromise, CCC, ICO, their school and other jobs
• It has been great hanging out with them with our current team after debrief...playing with them, eating out with them, participating in other community "stuff", having “real talks” with them and more

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Thank you for all of your continued prayers and support!

If the Lord leads you to not just support me in prayer but investing financially as well, I would love and appreciate that very much as I am in huge need of ***MONTHLY SUPPORTERS***. Please view the "PRAYER & SUPPORT" section on the right side of this blog.

By supporting and partnering with me, you will have a direct impact on the ministry God has called me to.

Thank you for sharing in this opportunity with me to influence the lives of many of God’s people.