• Those who are sick, suffering or in need: Sara, Ian, Karlee, Hope, Andrew, Sandy, Brian, Tarah, Abby, Joan, Erin, Rhea, Paul, Jeanette, Alex, and Margaret.
• Those who are struggling with physical or mental illness due to COVID-19; for "bending the curve" and bringing down the number of cases in Alberta; for all who are doing their best to serve others in this time.
• Those who have died and those who mourn their loss.
• Bishop Sixbert and the Diocese of Buyé (Twinned Parishes).  
• Our brothers and sisters in Christ from Treaty 6 and Treaty 8 First Nations, from the Métis Nation of Alberta, and from the Métis Settlements in Alberta.
• Click here if you would like someone's name included in this prayer list. We will use first names only.

Bishop Jane Alexander is pleased to appoint the Rev. Trina Holmberg as Rector of St. Andrews Anglican Church in Camrose, effective January 1, 2021.

New this week:

*20 minutes of reflective Advent music on mp3 from Evan Thomas, Music Director at St. Matthias.
*Christmas carols to sing along to with the Rev. Tim Chesterton.
*All Saints' Cathedral Lessons and Carols Service.
*Prayers and poetry for Advent.
*St. David's Christmas Carol Sing-Along.
*Advent Taize services from Christ Church.
                            ...and more!

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. 

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.

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

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. 

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.

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!

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.

Contacts: 
*The Ven. Travis Enright, Archdeacon for Indigenous Ministry: rector@stfaithsanglican.org / 780-477-5931
*Fiona Brownlee, Aboriginal and Rural Communities Liaison: f.brownlee@edmonton.anglican.ca / 780-312-9070
*The Rev. Lori Calkins, Priest: loriinkster@gmail.com 

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.

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. 

This page lists online opportunities for worship, learning and virtual community provided weekly by parishes throughout the diocese.

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.

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 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.