Echo Formation Assistants
Featured EFA Profiles:
Nannette Coons • EFA
Echo Formation Assistants (EFAs) are individual men and women who live and work in or near an Echo partner diocese and are eager and well qualified to provide strong, local, hands-on support to apprentices and their communities during the two-year apprenticeship. EFAs travel to campus each June during the program’s weeklong orientation to meet with their respective apprentice communities, and to gather with other EFAs for their own program orientation and retreat. In August, EFAs join diocesan leaders and mentors in welcoming apprentices to their assigned dioceses. Throughout the year, they offer ongoing support to apprentices through monthly individual and communal meetings, a fall community retreat and frequent, ongoing communication. EFAs are invited to attend all local Echo diocesan events, participate in Echo staff visits and collaborate with diocesan leaders and mentors on an annual spring retreat for apprentices. Echo staff members are in frequent contact with Echo support persons throughout the year and are available for ongoing support and consultation.
