New Canada Watch: Conscience Work Goes on As Parliament Pauses
Our new Canada Watch is online. Read about what the EFC is doing to advocate for conscience protection for all those in medical fields who do not want to violate their own consciences by making arrangements for MAID. Also find our other articles including an Indigenous Relations Update, an Interview with David Hearn, chair of the EFC board.
We're Hiring!
The EFC is expanding our team to include a full-time digital media manager. As part of the communications team, the digital media manager will help direct the EFC’s online presence from conception to implementation. The work can be done from our offices in Ottawa or Richmond Hill, Ont., remotely, or a combination of those locations. Application deadline is August 1.
See details on this position and on our other job opportunities including Major Gifts Officer Eastern (Ontario to Maritimes) and Major Gifts Officer Western (BC to Manitoba) at TheEFC.ca/Jobs.
New EFC Weekly Prayer Prompts
Prayer is essential to any effective action. Each week at TheEFC.ca/TakeAction we rotate through a prayer request from each of these five areas: Sanctity of Life, Care for the Vulnerable, Church and Mission, Family and Community, Religious Freedom. We also list an EFC affiliate group to pray for.
This week’s prayer request is about religious freedom. Pray for freedom to worship in places around the world where that freedom is restricted. Look ahead to the International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief.
You can learn more on these issues at TheEFC.ca/ReligiousFreedom.
This week's EFC affiliate highlight focuses on Voice of the Martyrs.
Covid 19 and the restrictions have a significant impact on our lives. The EFC continues to offer new Friday@4 pandemic-focused prayer suggestions each week at TheEFC.ca/Covid-19.
Ministry Brings Vaccines to Most Vulnerable in India (Faith Today blog)
A Canadian Christian organization that helps people with diseases like leprosy is making a difference in India, reports Rebecca Collett of Effect Hope.
Richard Brothers: Faith Today Guest Column by Baiyu Andrew Song
Guest Religion Watch writer Baiyu Andrew Song tells of Newfoundland-born Richard Brothers, who, in an “attempt to interpret the Bible without confessional boundaries, began to read himself and recent events into biblical history.”
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Nouvelles ressources en français / New French-language resources
→ Le travail sur la conscience se poursuit pendant la pause parlementaire
→ Entretien avec David Hearn, président du conseil d'administration de l’AEC
→ Sur la colline du Parlement de août-septembre 2021
→ Mise à jour sur les relations avec les autochtones
→ Mot du directeur régional pour le Québec de juin-juillet 2021
→ Au travail pour protéger les enfants de la pornographie
→ EFC’s David Guretzki speaking at Edmonton church, Aug. 7-8
→ Jesus-Centred Essentials: Theology Rooted in the Radical Reformation (Jesus Collective), online Aug. 4, 11
→ Youth Ministry Online Summit – Staff (Alpha/YWC/Change Conf.), online Aug. 11
→ Safe Adventures in the Outdoors: Webinar for Field Trip Organizers (Plan to Protect), online Aug. 12
→ Gospel Impact Canada 2021 (Shareword Global / Gideons International), online, Aug. 13-14
→ Ending Poverty Together (Food for the Hungry Canada), online, Aug. 14
→ Connect with the Jesus Collective, online, Aug. 18
→ International Day Commemorating the Victims of Violence Based on Religion or Belief, Aug. 22
In Case You Missed It
→ Ethics Committee Recommends Government Take Action to Hold Commercial Pornography Sites Accountable
→ Conversion Therapy Bill Advances in the Senate
→ Art Contest Encourages Hope (poems, prose, music, audio) (visual art)
→ Gaps in My Resume (Faith Today column by guest writer Lindsay Callaway)
→ Faith Today Writers Shortlisted for Awards
→ Reconciliation Proclamation (video version) (print version)
→ Statement on Targeting Places of Worship
→ Conflict reimagined (Faith Today blog)
→ Resources for the Reconciliation Learning Journey (on EFC website)