Renegotiating Faith: The Delay in Young Adult Identity Formation
“Young adults are three times more likely to connect with a new church after moving out of their parents’ home if someone from their home congregation tries to make a connection for them.” Learn more about the latest research on young adult transitions in Renegotiating Faith, a new report derived from research conducted by the EFC and its partners. It is now available as a free download!
The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, Power to Change–Students, InterVarsity Canada, Youth for Christ and Truth Matters Ministries partnered on this research to discover how we can help our teens stay connected to church and faith as they move on from high school.
Your Stories of Palliative Care—Andrée Morissette
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 Andrée Morissette, who tells of caring for her elderly parents, and how she coped with the overwhelming grief when she lost both of them in short succession. Have you witnessed the difference palliative care made for a loved one? If you have an experience that you’d be willing to share with other readers on our websites, please 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.
World Day Against Trafficking
Yesterday was the World Day Against Trafficking. In case you missed it, here is the EFC's recent submission on Human Trafficking in Canada to the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights.
Audio Podcast: Healing Churches: The Hard Path Churches Must Walk Through Listening, Confession and Reconciliation
Our latest podcast is an interview with Russ Parker, a healing and reconciliation expert who has ministered in some of the world’s toughest spots, leading listening and forgiveness work. Rev. Dr. Parker is director of 2Restore, which helps churches resolve and heal legacies of unhealed stories and move forward in a renewed ability to flourish as God intends. He was in Ottawa recently for a conference on healing churches.
Contact Your MP Now on Canada Summer Jobs
Summer is the perfect time to contact your MP on the Canada Summer Jobs issue, since you may be able to meet with them in person while they are in their home ridings. 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 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.
A Tale of Two Witnesses: How Can the Church Be a Loving Neighbour?
When others ignore the poor and needy around us, their inaction can convince us to also remain silent. However, “being an inactive bystander is simply not an option for us individually or corporately,” says Natalie Appleyard of Citizens for Public Justice in the July/August Faith Today.
This article is free online, but you can also support us and receive our print magazine by subscribing at FaithToday.ca/subscription.
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→ Fellowship of Christian Peace Officers National Conference, St. John’s, Aug. 3-4
→ Word-Filled Women’s Ministry Training, Charlottetown, Aug. 3-4
→ Uprising Canada, Etobicoke, Aug. 8-11
→ Global Leadership Summit, Willow Creek, simulcast, various locations, Aug. 9-10
→ New Brunswick Christian Ashram, Brown's Flat, NB, Aug. 9-11
→ No Greater Love Music Festival, Stoney Nakoda Nation, Aug. 11-12
→ International Leaders School of Ministry, Toronto, Aug. 13-17
In Case You Missed It
→ Submission on Palliative Care Framework to Health Canada (2018)
→ Your Stories of Palliative Care: Pat Klein
→ Fitness + Faith (Faith Today article)
→ To Sit and Just Talk (Faith Today blog)