Bent Hope featured on 100 Huntley Street…
On Monday, May 5, Tim was a guest on 100 Huntley Street, talking with hostess Moira Brown about the origins and purpose of his new book, Bent Hope. To watch the interview, click here and scroll down to Monday’s program.
On Thursday, April 10th, 2008, Youth Unlimited (Toronto YFC), Castle Quay Books and the Maranatha Foundation will be joining together with selected media, government officials, special friends and supporters to celebrate the release of Tim’s second book, Bent Hope: A Street Journal.
Click here here to read the official press release.
Tim Huff on KEY LIFE radio, Orlando, Florida…
In March 2008, Tim Huff was a guest on the “Steve Brown Etc.” radio show on the KEY LIFE radio network, broadcasting from Orlando, Florida. “Steve Brown Etc.” is broadcast throughout the USA and into Canada on both contemporary Christian and non-Christian radio stations. Steve Brown is a career radio personality, an author, a seminary professor, an in-demand speaker across North America … and un predictable. To hear Tim’s interview with Steve Brown, click here.
December 23, 2003
Turkey, socks and a challenge
A dinner in the park, a news conference in the square. At holiday time as no other, thoughts turn to the homeless.
NECO COCKBURN
Staff Reporter
It’s almost time.
The big white tent is well lit by candles and a lantern glowing amid the darkness of Grange Park downtown.
Hours have been spent preparing for the night’s feast.
Inside, a tarp covers the muddy ground. Eight chairs surround each of the five tables. A small bag of candy marks each guest’s place.
Youth cry out for home
Jim Coyle
The idea of home is a profound one, for most us a physical place, a sense of rootedness, a santuary, a yearning. It speaks so much to the heart of things, touches people so deeply, that the notion of homelessness should be among the most awful there is.
For more than 10 years now, Tim Huff has seen homelessness in this city up close and in its worst manifestation: the mounting numbers of homeless youth. On Monday, he’ll help formally launch a project to do something about it. Huff is director of Youth Unlimited’s Light Patrol program, which has assembled and trained staff to help reach street kids, to gain a little trust, foster a little hope and link them up with the best available services. He’s been with Youth Unlimited for 15 years, helped develop a drop-in centre in Weston, then followed some of the most troubled of the clients downtown when they migrated there.
December 6, 2003
In the shelter of a kind word
Maltreated teens – no one’s sure how many – eke out a bleak life on the margins. Calling them back takes rebuilding faith, one deed at a time, by Leslie Scrivener
On any given day, 22,000 cars sweep across the old iron bridge at the foot of Bathurst St. toward the railway corridor, never knowing they are driving above 18-year-old Chantal Gagnon’s home.It’s a shack, built into the bridge abutment with found lumber, sandwich boards and cardboard. It’s looking good so far – except for the rats.
How do you keep them out?
Michelle Rickard
Special to ChristianWeek
Mississauga,
The Cardboard Shack Beneath the Bridge: Helping Children Understand Homelessness, written and illustrated by Tim Huff, lays the groundwork for parents and teachers to start talking with children about homelessness.
“The world won’t be shaped into something better because we’ve blocked or hidden children from difficult things. But it can be changed in miraculous ways if we hold them tight and walk through the harsh things of the world with them,” explains H
uff, a Toronto resident who has dedicated his life to young people living on the streets.
For nearly two decades, Huff has worked full time among poor and marginalized youth in the Greater Toronto Area with Youth Unlimited (Toronto Youth for Christ), where he founded Frontlines Youth Centre and pioneered Youth Unlimited’s Light Patrol street outreach. His work on the streets among homeless youth and adults has led him into alleyways, under bridges and off-ramps and into other dark corners of the city.
“Homelessness has been called one of the greatest tragedies of our time. In an age of prosperity and plenty, hundreds of thousands of people continue to find themselves homeless.”