Contact Your MP Now on Canada Summer Jobs
Now is the perfect time to contact your MP. You may be able to meet with them in person during the summer. Please ask them to push for changes to make next year's Canada Summer Jobs application more fair. Find out how to contact your MP here. Our Canada Summer Jobs page has a simple summary of the issues (talking points) and a sample letter you can revise and send to your MP.
How is your ability to serve your community being affected by the Canada Summer Jobs change this summer? Can we share your story to raise awareness about the impact? Email us at socialmedia@TheEFC.ca.
Submission to Government on Palliative Care Framework
What's a good definition for palliative care? How does it relate to euthanasia and medical assistance in dying? What role should religious volunteers play? In a submission to Health Canada last week, the EFC addresses such questions. The government had asked for input on such issues and intends to issue a report on its findings in September. Download a PDF of the six-page EFC submission to read.
Survival Habits of the Soul
Ken Shigematsu is the pastor of Tenth Church in Vancouver and author of Survival Guide for the Soul (Zondervan, 2018). In the latest issue of Faith Today, he acknowledges how easy it is to find our value in our own achievements instead of in God’s unconditional love, and he introduces us to three spiritual practices that can help us feel loved and whole. His article is republished with permission from the EFC magazine Faith Today, Jul/Aug 2018. Subscribe to read more articles like this.
Your Stories of Palliative Care: Melinda Crawford
The EFC is publishing a series of personal experience stories in support of our free new Palliative Care Toolkit. This week you can read the story of Melinda Crawford of Whitby, Ont., who writes about looking after her mother, and what a blessing it was to her to spend six of her last weeks at home. Read her story and others in the series at TheEFC.ca.
Do you have an experience with palliative care that you’d be willing to share? Email us to tell us about it. To say thank you, we’ll give you a free one-year subscription to Faith Today, Canada’s Christian magazine. We’re also publishing these Stories of Palliative Care on the Faith Today blog.
Dispatch from Brian Stiller: Global Christian Forum
"Ecumenical has not been a friendly word in my lexicon," says Brian Stiller, global ambassador for the World Evangelical Alliance, as he reflects on his younger years. "We also lost potential in working together to do good within our communities. That’s why recent days spent in Bogota Columbia, as part of the Global Christian Forum, were important. Various major groupings of the global church met to affirm friendship and strengthen Christian witness and bonds in the life of Jesus." Read more.
Dispatch from Brian Stiller: African Children Singing Us into Pentecost
"Within this past century this global community, estimated to be around a half billion, is changing the face of the Christian witness and presence." Brian Stiller shares how the charismatic movement has grown and changed around the world.
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→ Understanding and Answering Summit, Toronto, July 18-21
→ Festival of Faith Conference by the United Church of Canada, Oshawa, July 21-22
→ Taste of Jesus in the City of Toronto, Toronto, July 21-22
→ In-Canada Mission Trip (Baptist Women), Toronto, July 22-26
→ Fellowship of Christian Peace Officers National Conference, St. John’s, Aug. 3-4
→ Word-Filled Women’s Ministry Training, Charlottetown, Aug. 3-4
→ Global Leadership Summit, Willow Creek, simulcast, various locations, Aug. 9-10
→ No Greater Love Music Festival, Stoney Nakoda Nation, Aug. 11-12
→ New Brunswick Christian Ashram, Aug. 9-11
→ International Leaders School of Ministry, Toronto, Aug. 13-17
→ Raising her arm to the Lord
In Case You Missed It
→ Latest magazines focus on self-care and social media for Jul/Aug 2018
→ What churches should know about caring for people with disabilities. Three questions with Janet Noel-Annable of Christian Horizons
→ Palliative care for the homeless: interview with palliative care physician Naheed Dosani
→ What we’ve learned in one year of podcasting
→ The importance of theological education in a rapidly changing world: Interview with Regent College president Jeff Greenman (Audio Podcast)
→ Your stories of palliative care: Jim Curtis
→ Self-Care: FT Interview with Sharon Ramsay
→ We need to listen and learn about Indigenous reconciliation