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ECRS is an independent, parent organized and run, K-12 school with approximately 250 students, 15 full-time teaching staff, and several part-time teaching staff. The school has an active and comprehensive Learning Assistance and Special Education department. All teachers are certified under the Teacher Regulation Branch of British Columbia. The school is a Group 1 school, as defined by the Independent School Act. Parents run the school via a seven-person Board of Directors drawn from and elected by the school society's membership. In the 2018-2019 school year, tuition rates per family were $554 per month. Also, as a Group 1 school, we receive funding from tax dollars. This funding is 50% of the per-student cost incurred by the local public school district, School District 54. Capital costs are not funded via tax dollars, so they must be raised by donations or increased fees. Membership in the Canadian Reformed School Association of Smithers is open to members in good standing of the Canadian Reformed Church of Smithers, Canadian Reformed Church of Houston, Faith United Reformed Church in Telkwa, and Bethel United Reformed Church in Smithers. Children of parents who do not belong to any of those four churches may be admitted on a case-by-case basis by the school board. To be eligible, the parents must desire a Biblical education according to the Reformed faith. That faith is summarized in the Three Forms of Unity. If they are admitted, the parents will be non-voting members. If you are interested in more information, please contact the school office. All staff must be members in good standing of one of the four local Canadian or United Reformed churches mentioned above. Parents formed the school association back in the 1960s because they believed that nothing in life is neutral. Every aspect of life is affected by one's worldview/faith. Therefore the educational environment also had to be as consistent as possible with the truth of Scripture as understood by the parents. God grants children to parents and parents in turn, promise at the child's baptism that they will raise these children, God's covenant children, to know and fear Him. With this covenantal responsibility in mind, ECRS is a covenantal school committed to matching instruction as closely as possible to parents' faith. The school vision statement captures the intent of the school society. The idea of functioning as prophet priest and kings is taken from the Heidelberg Catechism, Lord's Day 12. Basically parents believe that life is an integrated whole and that it is to be lived to God's glory. We do not claim perfection in that but we do strive to take seriously the call to live for God's glory in love. This commitment to do things in a spirit of love and obedience to God is based on what Jesus identified in Matthew 22:37:40, as the two greatest commandments. This means that we endeavour to make the school culture and climate be one in which all students, staff, parents and visitors feels safe, accepted and respected. In all our classes, we try to integrate God's word in a responsible way in what we teach and how we teach it. Every decision and action is ideally tied back to the vision statement to ensure that we remain focussed on achieving that goal. On May 12, 1965, members of the Smithers Canadian Reformed Church founded the Canadian Reformed School Society of Smithers. They began by organizing a Friday night school that started in November of the same year. Planning and fundraising also began, with the purpose of establishing a full-time school. Plans got a large boost when a family from the church donated a piece of land for the school. On September 27, 1969 the Ebenezer Canadian Reformed School officially opened its doors with 58 students and two teachers and has operated ever since. In 1971 the school grew to include children from parents who were members of the Houston Canadian Reformed church. By 1974 an addition was being planned and there were 102 students, five full-time teachers and one part-time teacher. In 1987 a Learning Assistance program was started. In 2002 in response to developments in unity discussions between the Canadian and United Reformed churches the school society membership approved a change to the constitution to allow members of the United Reformed Church to be members of the school society. As of 2018-2019 just over 15% of the students are members of the URC. Over the years there have been several additions the most recent being in 2009, 2011 and 2015. As of the 2018-2019 school year there are 248 students. View full school

Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary is a young institution with a long tradition. The university was established in its present form in 1993 however its legal predecessors date back to 1839 and 1855. It is founded on the traditions of Reformed education, yet the university is open to professional innovation. Our nearly 8000 students can conduct their studies at four faculties which are the following: Faculty of Law, Faculty of Humanities, Faculty of Theology and Faculty of Teacher Training. The legal predecessor of our University was the Reformed Theological Academy of Budapest, founded in 1855 and granted University status by the Hungarian Parliament in 1990. In 1993 the General Assembly of the Reformed Church in Hungary took the decision to establish a university spanning a wide range of faculties, and this decision was approved later in the year on 21st September by the Parliament of the Republic of Hungary. Through the creation of Károli Gáspár University, the Reformed Church in Hungary has fulfilled the aims of its forefathers. Our University, in the spirit of the universitas scientiarum, aims to raise the status of not solely the Church, but also the nation, through its educational, teaching and academic work. ‘Without knowledge, my people will perish!’ – such was the cry of the Old Testament prophets and the Reformers in their sermons. It is impossible to imagine the effect that the legions of wandering university scholars with reformed beliefs, who made their way to Switzerland, the Netherlands, Germany, Scotland and later North America, have had on the Reformed Church and also on Hungarian culture. The spirit of Hungarian Protestantism is embodied in such individuals as Gáspár Károli, Gáspár Heltai, Albert Szenczi Molnar, Bálint Kocsi Csergő, János Apáczai Csere, Sándor Kőrösi Csoma, the Bolyais, and more recently, László Ravasz, István Bibó, Sándor Joo, and Endre Gyökössy, amongst others. Protestant schools and universities have, through the ages, paved the way for Reformed and Hungarian culture. They will continue to do so in the future. The commitment of Károli Gáspár University is to carry on the distinguished traditions of the Reformed Colleges of Sárospatak, Pápa, Debrecen, Kolozsvár and Nagyenyed. In addition to the education of ministers of religion, for the purposes of academic research, training for the position of lecturer and for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, and the awarding of degrees, its aims and objectives are to provide university – and college – level basic education in several fields and branches of scholarship, and to be capable of carrying out academic research, in accordance with the aforementioned traditions and in the spirit of the Reformation. In the spirit of the Biblical Word, the mission of the University is to educate young people consciously claiming the morals and spiritual values of Christianity, and to train professionals with up-to-date knowledge for the good of the nation, to serve Hungarians living in Hungary and outside our borders alike, first of all the reformed system of institutions and the reformed communities. Furthermore, the mission of the University is to encourage the academic and social cooperation of the protestant communities in Europe through the help of a centre in Hungary, and to increase the participation of the members of the Hungarian Reformed community in the intellectual and academic life. Through all this, the University contributes to the fulfilment of the Christian social mission of the Hungarian Reformed Church. Our university is a young and dynamic institution with rapidly developing international relations. It is a strategic aim of Károli University to further deepen and widen our network of international cooperation. Today, the university maintains bilateral contacts and cooperation agreements with almost 130 institutions of higher education from 35 countries in the world. Our partners are mostly European but we also have cooperation agreements with universities in Colombia, Japan, Korea and the USA. Cooperation agreements cover student and teacher exchange schemes, joint research and publication, as well as organising and providing courses for students. Within Europe, the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union plays a significant role in the cross-border cooperation while the university is also a member of the regional CEEPUS mobility programme. It also joined the new International Credit Mobility programme of the European Union, receiving exchange students from overseas universities. Furthermore, in the framework of the Stipendium Hungaricum programme launched by the Government of Hungary, thousands of students from all around the world can apply to Hungarian higher education institutions, including Károli Gáspár University as well. As a Christian university, Károli University actively seeks contact and cooperation with other Christian institutions of higher education. As a result, we have joined the IAPCHE (International Association for the Promotion of Christian Higher Education) and the CCCU (Council for Christian Colleges and Universities) as an international affiliate. We are also a member of the Refo500 international network that prepares for the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. On the 18th of September Rector Prof. Dr. Péter Balla – among representatives of other universities – in the framework of a signing ceremony has formally signed the Magna Charta Universitatum in Bologna. Thus Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary has joined the international higher-educational organisation, counting almost 800 members in more than 80 countries. View full university

The Debrecen Reformed Theological University, as a member institute of the Debrecen Reformed College founded in 1538, has been one of the influential centers of theological sciences and ecclesiastic training of intellectuals. Debrecen became the ecclesiastic center of the Tiszántúl that became protestant by the middle of the 16th century. At that time, the minister and teacher training in the region was carried out by the town's school. Thanks to its professors with experience from Western European universities, extended school network in the country, and protection and rich support from the town and from the princes of Transylvania, the college soon became an institute of national importance. As a poor school, it provided education for the lower layers of society and supported their social advance. Besides notable scientists and science organizers, several poets, writers, and philosophers knew in Hungarian cultural history are found amongst the college's former students. Our university is one of the oldest institutes of education in Hungary: education rich in experiences with reformed Christian commitment at the current age level has been carried out since 1538 in the institute. In our non-religious degree programs, teachers and youth workers may learn. In contrast, the religious degree programs prepare students for Church service and are Christian intellectuals – in the motto "Community, faith, knowledge." Our university was a founding member of the Debrecen Universitas Association and is still an associated institute of the University of Debrecen. The cooperation is close even beyond joint training. The DRTU currently has two institutes and seventeen departments. Our university, apart from its undivided, basic, master, and Ph.D. and higher education vocational training, carry out the training of further church employees, teachers, and other secular intellectuals. The institute currently has 60 full-time teachers and around 800 students. View full university