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Please Remember in Your Prayers this Week
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DIOCESAN AND PARISH NEWS AND EVENTS
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Diocesan Appointment
Bishop Jane Alexander is pleased to appoint the Rev. Trina Holmberg as Rector of St. Andrews Anglican Church in Camrose, effective January 1, 2021. |
Diocesan Appointment
Bishop Jane Alexander is pleased to appoint the Rev. Danielle Key as Rector of Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Edmonton, effective January 1, 2021. For more infomation visit:
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2020 Advent & Christmas Resources
New this week: *20 minutes of reflective Advent music on mp3 from Evan Thomas, Music Director at St. Matthias. For more infomation visit: http://edmonton.anglican.ca/news/2020-advent-christmas-resources
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Join Bishop Jane in Prayer this Advent
With the help of the Very Rev. Alex Meek and the Rev. Canon Chelsy Bouwman, Bishop Jane will be sharing short videos of Advent Prayers and the Lighting of the Candles throughout this coming Advent and Christmas season. Please use these videos in your worship, either corporately online or on your own as you worship in your home. |
Ecumenical Effort Ends Thursdayin 16 Days of Activism to End Gender-Based Violence 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence ends on Human Rights Day, December 10, 2020. The Ven. Jordan Ware. Archdeacon for Social Justice and Community Connection has worked with Bishop Jane and local Muslim and Jewish leaders to create a series of brief but powerful videos addressing the ways faith traditions can speak to this problem. The series in its entirety remains available on the diocesan website, along with a toolkit of ways that we can address gender-based violence in our parishes. For more infomation visit:
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Long Underwear Needed!Keep somebody warm this winter. PrayerWorks Common at St. Faith's Anglican Church needs 200 brand new sets/pairs of long underwear! They will be handed out in care packages with their December 18 lunch. For pick up or drop-off, please contact Jennifer Stewart by email at js.prayerworks@gmail.com or by text at 780-904-7569. Sizes needed are Men's Medium and X-Large, Women's Medium and Large |
Pandemic Craft Project
Please join us in a shared project to create a decorative textile for the Cathedral narthex. We will be gathering white knit, crocheted, and woven squares at the Cathedral between December 1st and January 15th. The squares will be joined together into a shared piece that shows that even when we are apart, we can do great things together through Christ! Click below for full information, or download this instructions pdf. I hope you will consider contributing a square as a concrete act of solidarity with each other and an expression of hope that we will get to the other side of the pandemic and gather together as a diocese once more. For more infomation visit:
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Wednesday Evening Advent Prayer Servicefrom St. Augustine Parkland and St. Timothy's Edmonton Join us tonight at 7:00pm for our Advent 2 Midweek Service. To access the service, please click on St. Timothy's YouTube link. You will find a link to the Order of Service in the video description. |
Recording Online Services at St. Augustine's Anglican Church Parklanda labour of love Since March 2020, many parishes have taken on, to one extent or another, the practise of providing worship services online. For a few this has been familiar territory. For most, it has been a big learning curve with great reliance on those in our parishes who have or were able to to learn the technology. Following is the story of how this journey has unfolded at St. Augustine Parkland in Spruce Grove. Pretty well every Saturday morning since April, a small group meets to produce and record our online Sunday services. The group has ranged from two souls to perhaps a half dozen, all dedicated to bringing God’s word directly into your living room, den, kitchen, or wherever your computing device of choice is located on a Sunday morning! For more infomation visit: http://edmonton.anglican.ca/news/recording-online-services-at-st-augustines-anglican-church-parkland
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St. Timothy Hymn Festivalavailable for all online A small but stalwart crew comprised of Bishop Jane Alexander, musicians from Concordia University, the Anglican Parish of St. Paul and Christ Church in Edmonton, and Rio Terrace Moravian Church, gathered with a few appreciative on-site audience members and hundreds of online viewers on Sunday November 1, for an ecumenical hymn festival of sacred music and spoken word—exploring themes of peace, strength, and healing—at St. Timothy’s Anglican Church in Laurier Heights. For more infomation visit:
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Christmas Cranberry Cheesecake!
TYP TOP Bakery has launched a Christmas Menu online at www.typtopbakery.ca! They are currently only offering pre-order pick ups. Curbside pick up is available and they are hoping to offer deliveries soon! People can also sign up for subscription boxes on the website.
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INDIGINEWS
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Diocese of Edmonton Indigenous Ministries
Contacts: Please see the Indigenous Ministries section of the diocesan website for leaflets, web links and other resources to help you pray and take action for reconciliation. See also the Anglican Church of Canada Reconciliation Toolkit. For more infomation visit: http://www.edmonton.anglican.org/what-we-do/indigenous-ministries
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Thank You!The Christmas Bags are Full! A big thank you from St. John the Evangelist Anglican Church in Edmonton to all who answered the call to help fill Christmas bags for the Head Start program run by Amiskwaciy Cultural Society. (A special thank you to St. Luke's Edmonton for their generous response!) The bags are full and on their way. |
Sweetwater
Season 5 of the Sacred Teachings Podcast features Stories of Hope and Light. This week's episode features Mary Louis Bernard, a M’ikmaq elder and traditional storyteller from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.
Be sure to listen every Monday for new episodes, guests and speakers. Also, follow us on Instagram @canadiananglican or on Facebook @theanglicanchurchofcanada |
ONLINE WORSHIP RESOURCES
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Worship from Home Schedule and Resources
This page lists online opportunities for worship, learning and virtual community provided weekly by parishes throughout the diocese. For more infomation visit: http://edmonton.anglican.ca/news/worship-from-home-schedule-and-resources
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Give Today
In this time of continued uncertainty, the Church, the Body of Christ, remains a loving and connected community. we hope to do all we can to support each other, and the diocese grateful for any and all donations we receive. If you are able, please continue to support the ministries of the Anglican Diocese of Edmonton. We continue to look for ways to support parishes and to ease the financial burden on those who will be struggling in weeks and months to come. You can make a secure online donation through the diocesan website. |
BEYOND THE DIOCESE
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National Church Offers Coast to Coast Service of Lessons and Carols
General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada has worked with cathedrals across the country to offer a special, national service of Lessons and Carols this Advent season. A broadcast of this service will take place on Friday, December 18, 2020 at 6pm Mountain Time. The service will be approximately an hour in length and can be viewed online at the ACC website. Video and audio files of the service will be posted to the same page for diocesan and parish use on Thursday, December 10. |
Hastings Lights 2020
Hastings Lake Bible Camp, long-time partner with the Diocese of Edmonton, held its very first Hastings Lights event in November. This drive thru Christmas light display included hot chocolate and Christmas cookies served to visitors in their cars as they drove through. The camp welcomed more than 1200 people over three days and raised more than $18,000. A five-minute video of the event is available on YouTube. |