Amanda McCrimmon

Amanda is a Lifeteams alumni from 2003. Since Lifeteams, she has taken what she learned and poured it into compassionately and generously caring for the people around her. Amanda is responsible for providing meals twice a week and everything students will need to prepare their own meals for the rest of the week. Amanda’s husband Dan and their four boys have all been volunteers with Lifeteams over the years and are a part of the Lifeteams family. In my spare time, Amanda enjoys driving lesser-known roads in BC and searching for some obscure spot to explore, tending to her vegetable...

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Carissa began her youth work career in 2004 as a church youth leader and made the switch into community youth work in 2011. Regardless of her roles and titles, spiritual mentoring has always been at the foundation of her ministry. In addition to her role with Lifeteams, she serves on YFC Canada’s People Development Team, supporting the spiritual growth and resiliency of youth workers across Canada. After being connected to the Lifeteams family for several years as a guest instructor, Carissa became the primary instructor of the Ministry & Spirituality course in 2019. She holds a Master of Arts in...

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Iona has been involved with youth work for over 30 years! She has worked as a group home staff, drop-in centre director, foster parent, probation counsellor, youth services coordinator, and young adults pastor. “My best instructors have been the hurting young people God has brought into my life through the years. I’m so grateful they chose to trust and live life with me.” Over the past 20 years she has been a youth work instructor, first at the University of the Fraser Valley, followed by Columbia Bible College, and now at Lifeteams. At Lifeteams, Iona is a guest instructor and...

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“I knew I wanted to work with YU the first moment I toured a youth drop-in centre and saw how the staff went to the teens and loved them where they were.” There are a few things you need to know about Jen Hubbard: the smell of the ocean is life giving to her, a slurpee soothes her soul, and she plays and coaches soccer. She also likes youth— a lot! This makes the Academic Coordinator position at Lifeteams a great fit for Jen. There she gets to equip front-line youth workers, train staff & volunteers, teach, mentor, and essentially...

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