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February 12, 2019

12 February 2019

Sign Up Now for February Webinar on Local Disaster Response

Sign up now for our February 27 webinar on local disaster response. Churches can play a pivotal and unique role offering comfort and help when tragedy or disaster strikes a community. How can churches respond well? How can we prepare? We welcome Merle Doherty, Rapid Response Team Manager for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, and Bob Laarman, Director of Disaster Response Services at World Renew, for a practical and inspiring conversation, including your questions. You can send questions in advance to host Karen Stiller at senioreditor@faithtoday.ca.

The EFC Intervenes in B.C. Assisted Dying Case

The EFC has been granted intervener status in the Lamb case in B.C., which examines expanded access to assisted suicide and euthanasia. The case will be argued before the Supreme Court of British Columbia. The EFC is intervening with the Christian Legal Fellowship.

New Audio Podcast: How Christians Use Social Media

Dr. Nicholas Greco is associate professor of communications & media at Providence Theological Seminary in Otterburne, Manitoba. In our latest audio podcast, learn how he is tweeting his way through the Catechism of the Catholic Church, among other very interesting projects.

Last Week to Apply for Social Media Coordinator

The EFC is now accepting applications for a permanent, paid, part-time position as Social Media Coordinator. The position holder will work ten hours per week posting content, designing graphics, writing copy, scheduling posts and implementing a social media plan for the EFC and its magazine Faith Today. The work can be done from a home office or EFC offices in Ottawa or Richmond Hill, Ont. At least one year of experience is required. Applications are welcome until Feb. 15 or when the job is filled. For a full job description and how to apply, see www.TheEFC.ca/Jobs

Beyond the Tweed Jackets

Does university learning consist solely of students in lecture halls learning from brainy professors in tweed jackets? If that’s your image of university education, think again. “Post-secondary institutions are increasingly developing hands-on learning opportunities [including co-op, internships and work placements, as well as community-engaged research]outside the classroom to deepen student knowledge and understanding of a subject,” reveals our writer Stephanie Tombari

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Coming Events at TheEFC.ca/Calendar

Publicize your event for free.  
→ Foundations of Media Strategy Online Course, Feb. 14
→ Youth Quake, Caronport, Feb. 15-17
→ Story in Ministry Online Course, Feb. 20
→ EFC Speaker in Markham, Feb. 21
→ CYWC Critical Concerns Youth Workers Conference, Oakville, Feb. 22
→ Today’s Teens Conference, Oakville, Feb. 23
→ Missions Fest Alberta 25thAnniversary, Edmonton, Feb. 22-24
→ Emerging Adulthood: EFC Researcher in Sussex, N.B., Feb. 27
→ EFC Webinar – How to Walk with Your Community in Times of Crisis, Feb. 27
→ EFC Speaker in Amherst, N.S., Feb. 28
→ (Re)Imagine Mission, Feb. 27, Hamilton; Feb. 28
→ Canadian Youth Workers Conference Edmonton, Mar. 1-2
→ Apologetics Canada Conference 2019, Abbotsford, Mar. 1-2
→ Levite Summit, Kelowna, Mar. 1-2
→ Promise Keepers Canada – National Men’s Conference DISRUPTIVE, Ottawa, Mar. 1-2
→ WICC World Day of Prayer, worldwide, Mar. 1
→ TrueCity Conference 2019, Hamilton, Mar. 1-2
→ Fluid Young Adults Gathering, Oakville, Mar. 2
→ EFC Speaker in Lloydminster, Alberta, Mar. 2-3

In Case You Missed It 

Who Knows? Learning from King David to Pray Big Prayers (Faith Todayarticle)
EFC Letter to Justice Minister on Studying and Combatting Online Hate
Dispatch from Brian Stiller: Turkey’s Jewel