Engaging youth and children in issues of development and relief is important. PWS&D has resources like Super Friends! and the Sunday School Challenge to help engage youth and kids in fun and interesting ways.
For more games and educational resources related to food security please visit http://foodgrainsbank.ca/educational_resources.aspx
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In the western highlands of Guatemala, hunger is a daily concern among Indigenous Maya-Mam people. Climate change and deforestation have led to low crop yields. Discrimination and poverty make it difficult for women and men to start farms or buy food for their families. PWS&D is responding with Canadian Foodgrains Bank and local partner AMMID […]
Help Support Refugees! PWS&D works with Canadian Foodgrains Bank to help refugees access enough nutritious food as they wait for peace and the opportunity to return home. Please pray for those enduring the uncertainty and trauma of displacement, and consider making a donation that will lead to critical, life-saving assistance. Worship Resources The resources in […]
There are many things we need to survive: nutritious food, clean water, clothing, health care and a safe place to live. But in Malawi, many poor families struggle to get what they need. Between 2011 and 2017, PWS&D’s Building Sustainable Livelihoods program* is helping 50,000 Malawians learn the valuable life skills to break cycles of […]
Empowered to Prosper is a multi-player board game designed to help youth understand the complex nature of poverty, and how they can make a difference. Youth will represent families from five developing countries.
PWS&D’s new Healthy Babies, Happy Moms Teacher Companion Kit for children grades K-3 and 4-6 provides teachers with ideas and materials for integrating the Sunday School Challenge into their existing church programs. Teach a single lesson for grades 4-6 or a choose from a single lesson or four week series for children grades K-3. The […]
Afghanistan is a country that brings many different thoughts to mind. It is a country of mystique, beautiful people, challenging and rugged terrain. It is also a country that has been ravaged by war, occupied by foreign nations and torn by internal conflict. The Presbyterian Church in Canada works through partner organizations to find creative […]
Your support of PWS&D’s Sunday School Challenge “Healthy Babies, Happy Moms” will make lasting improvements to the health of women and children by improving access to health care, training birth attendants and teaching women how to better care for themselves and their children.
The new Super Friends 2: Food for All children’s resource is a fun magazine designed for kids aged 7-14 and includes games, activities and stories to teach about food security and how we can help end hunger.
In the church we are Super Friends! We are friends with other kids in church and with people far away that we might never meet. The Super Friends! children’s resource is a fun magazine designed for kids aged 7-14 and includes games, activities and stories that teach children how they can be friends in the work of PWS&D, while also learning about topics such as emergency relief and climate change.
This lesson shares with children how things grow and mature over time with proper care and nurturing.
We also are called to spiritual growth by making efforts to cultivate the gifts of God in us, not only for our own sake, but also to reflect God’s care of others as a natural expression of that growth.