We are excited to invite you to our annual fundraising event on October 3rd, 2026! To sign up as a rider, walker or to volunteer, follow the link above! If you’re a first timer to the event, please register before the end of the day on Thursday, September 17th, in order for us to get your t-shirt printed in time for the event.
Registering for the Event:
Upfront, let’s explain the platforms we’re using. To register for the event as a participant, walker or volunteer, head over to Church Center and sign up there. Families can sign up together under one simple registration (so much easier!).
Fundraising:
To donate to Elevation or one of the people/teams participating, head over to our Zeffy Fundraising page. There is no need to create an account, just click on Donate, and then select who you want to donate to, and go from there!
If you do want to raise your own funds, head over to the same Zeffy Fundraising page, and click on the Fundraise button to set up your own page with your target amount, profile photo and team name (create a Solo Campaign for you, your family or team and use the first name section for your team name). It’s that simple!
More Information:
The event will still be hosted at 22 Willow, as it has for the past few years. The timing of the event remains on par with how it has been recently, too:
09:00AM – Check In
09:30AM – Walk/Run/Rides Start
11:00AM – Snacks and Mingle
11:30AM – Dismissal
Here’s a list of who we are raising funds for this year:
The walk will be the same as last year, a scenic stroll around Silver Lake in Waterloo Park. The 5km loop will be mainly on trails and cycleways in and around Waterloo Park. The 10km route will essentially be the same as the 2025 route. The 25km ride no longer has the MTB/single-track section, but will take place only on on roads and cycle trails. Click on the above links for the maps on Komoot.
If walking, running, or riding are not your thing, you’re welcome to come cheer on the team or volunteer to help out, as usual! While we won’t be serving a full meal, snacks will be provided after the walk and ride.
This past Sunday, we said farewell to someone who has become a much-loved part of the Elevation staff team: Adrianna, our Children’s Ministry Coordinator.
Adrianna joined our staff team in May of 2025 in the role of Children’s Ministry Coordinator. Right from the beginning, we were all so confident that Adrianna was an incredible fit for what our team needed at that time. She brought insight, youthful energy, a depth of wisdom and experience working with kids, and a passion for helping our team of volunteers to create an accessible and welcoming environment for our kids to develop relationships with one another, and explore the love of God together.
Adrianna held this role over the last school year while she also finished her final year in the music program at Laurier. This past summer, Adrianna increased her hours to full-time, thanks to the Canada Summer Jobs grant we obtained, and has blown our team away with all of the other work that she jumped into this summer – from pushing some policy writing across the finish line, to helping to organize areas in the office, to pulling together our Summer Sundays for KidsQuest and other family events, to many hours spent organizing and setting up plans for the KidsQuest classrooms, curriculum and volunteer teams well into the fall and beyond.
Adrianna brought much joy, a quiet confidence and an inspiring open-handed curiosity to our team, and we are going to miss her presence greatly.
Adrianna is heading to Alberta to continue her studies, as she completes a Masters Degree in Conducting. And although we’ve known about Adrianna’s plans for a while now, it still feels like it has come much too quickly!
Adrianna, on behalf of our staff team, Board, KidsQuest teams, and the whole Elevation community: thank you.
Thank you for all that you have shared with our community. You are a gift to those who know you, and we are so grateful to have had this time to walk together. We are absolutely thrilled for you as you take off on this adventure, and your Elevation family will always be cheering you on!
Go well, Adrianna. We’re so grateful for you. ❤️
Welcoming Tori to the KidsQuest Team
As we say goodbye to Adrianna, we’re also excited to welcome Victoria “Tori” Snider as our new Children’s Ministry Coordinator!
Filling this position has been a significant process. Elevation’s hiring team began its search back in May, and we’re grateful for the patience of our community as we worked carefully toward finding the right person for this role. We’re delighted to share that the hiring team came to a unanimous decision: Tori has accepted the position of Children’s Ministry Coordinator and began her role on this past Sunday, August 23.
From the very beginning of the hiring process, Tori impressed the team with her attention to detail and ability to prepare thoughtfully. Throughout the process, she demonstrated creativity, strong organizational skills, and a willingness to put in the effort and initiative needed to see a task through.
Just as importantly, Tori understands Elevation’s values and vision and has already shared some great ideas about how those values can be woven into all aspects of our work with children.
We’re excited to see the gifts and ideas Tori will bring to KidsQuest and to the wider Elevation community. We hope you’ll join us in giving her a warm welcome as she begins her new role!
Welcome to the team, Tori! We’re glad you’re here. 🎉
This coming Sunday we will close our Noticing God Summer series by hearing from one of our Elevation community members who is no longer able to join us in person regularly. Keith Martin will share with us about the health journey that he has been on over the last few years, and how he is finding intentional ways to notice and experience God’s presence, even in the midst of suffering and unexpected crisis. How do we hold on to hope or find joy as we walk through these seasons of suffering? There are no easy answers to this question, and yet we can find deep encouragement as we hold space to listen to one another’s stories and experiences. We look forward to gathering together to explore these questions with honesty and curiosity.
Summer Series: Noticing God, Part 6 – Seeking God in the Ordinary Mundanity of Everyday Life.
If you believe God created the world and believe in God’s omnipresence, then why not look for God EVERYWHERE? The practice of paying attention and being aware of God’s Holy Spirit and what God may be trying to teach us does not have to be contained to ‘Christian’ places or content. What if we watched and listened for God everyday and in every normal, mundane act of our lives? What could we learn and experience if we truly practiced intentional attention?
