Olympic Opportunities with More Than Gold are available for anyone looking to get involved with other Christians during the 2010 Olympics. Check out these opportunities at the More Than Gold website: www.morethangold.ca.
Featured events include:
Wed. Nov. 4 at 12:00 pm – Buying Sex Is Not a Sport
Event at SFU.
Fri. Nov. 6 at 6:00 pm – Rapid Response Training
Sat. Nov. 7 at 10:30 am – Prayer Walk at Cypress Mountain
You might also want to consider joining the Billy Graham Rapid Response Team, which is coming to Vancouver for the 2010 Winter Olympics.
The Rapid Response Team members will be prepared for crisis response but will also simply talk and offer to pray with Olympic employees, athletes, visitors, and residents of Vancouver.
A training session is planned for the Lower Mainland on Nov. 6-7 at Willingdon Church in Burnaby. The schedule is:
Registration: Friday, 5-7 p.m.
Session: Friday, 7-9 p.m.
Session: Saturday, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
If you have questions please contact Melanie Neufeld at mneufeld@samaritan.org
Finally, the potential exploitation of young women in Metro Vancouver and Whistler during the 2010 Winter Olympics will be explored in the public forum Human Trafficking in Our Own Backyard at St. Stephen's Church Hall, 1360 East 24th Avenue in North Vancouver on Nov. 18, from 7-9 p.m. The event will be hosted under the More Than Gold banner.
More Than Gold is a broad coalition of Christian denominations and parachurch agencies formed to offer information and services before, during and after the Olympic Games. The object is help the Christian Church serve and educate their neighbours and visitors from around the globe.
The Vancouver Archdiocese is teaming up with others churches to host the forum on how the demand for paid sex fuels human trafficking, said a member of the archdiocesan More Than Gold committee.
"Such a large sporting event has the potential to contribute to exploitation. We want to `fill the hall' to show how everyone can help prevent such a thing from happening `in our own backyard'," said Pat Battensby. "Come and hear how you can connect with other Christian communities who share our concern."
For more information, contact Battensby at 604-926-4294.
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