Travel Fast: A Hip-Hop Documentary from Hope Mission on Vimeo.

In the summer of 2008 we (the Tegler Youth Centre) started a hip hop program for kids and teenagers and it has been a tremendous success. We are amazed with the passion and conviction at which the kids write and rhyme. It has been a great way to foster self confidence, individuality and meaningful friendships. Here is a short documentary of our hip hop program. Enjoy!

Hip Hop has been a popular past time at the Tegler Youth Centre since the program started summer of 2008. It’s been inspiring to see the youth get excited about writing and poetry. Rap club has been one of our most successful programs and it continues to grow in way’s that we never expected. A once exclusive guys activity, Rap Club is now becoming equally co-ed.  To check out our new songs featuring a handful of female rappers click the photo or go to myspace.com/tyccrew. Enjoy!

The accumulation of our joys and sorrows are softly sculpted into our faces. The nuances and the potencies of every experience are etched in. By dint of time, our faces-those unfinished paintings through which we meet the world-reveal the passages of our lives. While we often mask, hide, or make them up, on inspection they tell our story. They are vulnerable veneers.
But the veneers of people on the street are far more vulnerable, their faces often etched with desolation and sorrow. Their stories, the details of which are all unique and varied, tell of tragedy. Clearly their personal dramas have to do with deep and complex ruptures, ones that have increased in scope and number even while our living standard has steadily risen.
This book is the story of shared hope through face-to-face encounters. It is the story of Hope Mission’s growing response to people who are not only in need of food and shelter, but who are in need of a tenacious hope.

“It’s so easy to see the hand of God at work in the Hope Mission.”
-Premier Ed Stelmach

Stephen T. Berg began volunteering at Hope Mission in 1984. In 1991 he started working part-time as a chaplain assistant. In 1992, when Hope Mission took over operations of the former Single Men’s Hostel, he became manager of the renamed Herb Jamieson Centre and held this position for seven years. After this post ended he worked as the youth home manager for one year. He then worked in volunteer services and communications and has been Director of Development for the past eight years.
Stephen is a frequent contributor to the Edmonton Journal’s Religion page. He writes features and articles on issues of social care and justice, and Christian responsibility.

All proceeds from the sale of this book go to the ministry of Hope Mission.

Visit WWW.HOPEMISSION.COM to find out how to purchase a copy of Growing Hope.

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