We need your help!

PC: Tammy Hanratty

Every spring and summer, we hire countless staff to lead groups, schools, clubs, and summer campers through our programs. These young adult staff, many who attend Bible colleges and universities across our country, make significant sacrifices when they decide to work at camp. They make the choice to work for less to do amazing Kingdom work. 

One of the things that helps us hire and pay some of these college and university students are Summer Grants. Every year that I have worked at camp (seasonally and full-time), we have received atleast two summer grants. These grants are specifically for staff who are currently students and are intending to return to school in fall.  The government is pretty flexible with these grants allowing us to make some minor changes after we've received them.  Students from Bible School are eligible.  University and Community College are also eligible.  Last year we received seven grants totaling just over $30,000.  Camp Evergreen doesn't make any profit off these grants, we pass on the amount directly to the students.  It does mean that several of our staff can make a significant amount of income while serving at summer camps.

As I'm sure you have seen in the news recently, the government decided that every organization that applies needs to attest that we agree to how the government thinks on several issues. Under the counsel of Christian Camping Canada and the Canadian Council of Christian Charities, we filled out the applications with a written portion that stated what we understood the attestation to mean.  A few weeks ago, we received an e-mail stating that our application needed to be re-submitted because the attestation could not be altered.  We have reapplied, including a letter to our Prime Minister and MP with our concerns regarding the attestation.

There's good news - this last weekend, it was announced that there will be a vote in the House of Commons on March 19, 2018 to reverse the attestation.  We could really use your help. One of the simple things you can do is to contact your Member of Parliament by writing a letter and ask them to vote on March 19th to reverse the attestation. It's a simple letter that looks like this:

Mr/Mrs/Miss/Ms FirstName, Lastname, MP, House of Commons

Dear Mr. Lastname:

I am writing in regards to the Canada Summer Jobs Grant. I understand that there is a motion on the floor to reverse the attestation policy. On March 19, 2018, I am asking you to vote in favour of the motion to reverse the attestation policy.

Sincerely
Your Name
Email address

The second thing you can do is SHARE this. Tell you friends, families, neighbors to send a letter to their MPs about voting for the reversal.

The third thing - and probably the most important thing - that you can do is on March 19th - let's band together and pray that the attestation is reversed.

Together we can make a difference!

.: jogee :.