Phone-a-thon 2011

Our annual Phone-a-thon will wrap up in the next few weeks. A BIG THANK YOU to our Board members, faculty members and student volunteers who are making the calls and to all our supporters for taking the time to speak with them.

Many of you have shared your ICS stories with our callers—stories that encourage us as we look to a positive future, including the opening of the Research Centre. Our students have also enjoyed sharing their ICS stories—stories that have given you a first-hand glimpse of how your gift is helping ICS through its programs to bring renewal and hope to our world.

If for some reason we missed connecting with you by phone, you still have time to send in your gift. Your gift is vital to our work. Please donate online at http://www.icscanada.edu/ics/giving/, call us at 414-979-2331 ext 223 (Vidya Williams) or ext 221 (Kathy Lynch) to make a credit card donation, or mail your cheque to Institute for Christian Studies, 100-229 College St., Toronto ON M5T 1R4.

Thank you for your partnership.

ICS Welcomes Lyle Clark

ICS is pleased to announce that Mr. Lyle Clark has accepted the offer to become the Assistant Director of the Centre for Philosophy, Religion and Social Ethics at ICS. This is a half-time position. Lyle will work closely with Lambert Zuidervaart, the Centre's Director, in all areas of the Centre's work. A long-time supporter of ICS, Lyle brings more than twenty years of administrative experience in the not-for-profit sector. He will start at ICS on Tuesday, May 17. Please join us in giving Lyle a warm ICS welcome!

Jim Olthuis in South Africa

Emeritus Senior Member Jim Olthuis will be a keynote speaker at the 2011 International Koers Conference on Worldview and Education to be held in Johannesburg and Potchefstroom, South Africa from May 30 to June 2. Koers is a South African scholarly journal that has reflected on foundational issues in science since 1935.

Jim will also be presenting lectures at North-West University in Potchefstroom, South Africa from May 26 to 28.

Additions to Perspective Archives

We have started scanning our archives of Perspective starting with Volume 1 Issue 1 from 1967. Find them on our website at http://www.icscanada.edu/perspective along with more recent issues. The old pictures alone are worth the visit!