• Those who are sick, suffering, or in need: Sharon, Elizabeth, Julianna, Chris, Eleanor, Fred, Raymond, Gail, and Dorothy.
• Those who have died and those who mourn.
• Health care workers, school staff, church leaders, and the many in various situations navigating the ending of provincial COVID-19 restrictions.
• Archbishop Sixbert and the Diocese of Buyé (Updated list of Twinned Parishes).  
• Our relations 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. Names are kept on the list for two weeks unless intentionally renewed.

Bishop Steve is looking for the best ways to communicate with the diocese. So through the last two weeks of April and into May and June, he will prepare a weekly video providing an update on happenings in the diocese from his perspective. This week after Easter is quiet in many parishes, but for the Bishop it's full of meetings! He's also looking down the road to July, encouraging all to remember that summer camp is coming!

In getting to know the diocese, Bishop Stephen London continues to travel to parish communities, meeting and praying with as many people as possible. He is also scheduled to attend provincial and national episcopal gatherings this spring:

• April 22: Cursillo Secretariat Commissioning at St. Timothy's, Edmonton
• April 24: Confirmation Service at St. George’s, Edmonton
• April 27: Deconsecration of St. John the Baptist, St. Paul
• April 28 to May 1: Provincial Synod, Prince Alberta, SK

Following are opportunities to support Ukraine financially:

• Vegreville and Area Stands With Ukraine
• PWRDF Funds for Ukraine
• Canadian Red Cross Ukraine Humanitarian Crisis Appeal
• Canada-Ukraine Foundation

The Remembering the Children diocesan weaving project is back on the road! The travelling loom will visit St. Luke's Anglican Church (8424–95 Avenue, Edmonton) starting Monday and comes to All Saints' Cathedral in May. The project began at Christ Church on Ash Wednesday, facilitated by members of the diocesan Indigenous Ministries Team and lay evangelist Alison Hurlburt, a weaver. 

Bishop Stephen London will join the Edmonton Cursillo in-person gathering on Friday, April 22 at St. Timothy's Anglican Church, 8420-145 St NW, Edmonton. The Bishop will lead a service of eucharist, which will include the commissioning of the Cursillo Secretariat, followed by coffee, snacks and reconnecting. The gathering, which starts at 7:00pm will also be live-streamed. For more information, email cursilloedmonton@gmail.com or follow Edmonton Cursillo on Facebook.

Edmonton Cursillo is a very active group! They are currently looking for a secretary, a treasurer and a music coordinator to round out the leadership team. Can you spare a couple of hours each month? No experience needed! Contact cursilloedmonton@gmail.com for more information.

On May 5 we will recognise and honour the Murdered & Missing Indigenous Women, Girls and 2 Spirit folk (MMIWG2S). In preparation, we invite you to participate in an all-day workshop on Saturday, April 23, at All Saints Cathedral, 10035-103 St, Edmonton. We will collectively make 16 red dress ribbon skirts for ceremonial use, as a way to bring light into the world. The day will begin with coffee at 9:30am and a light lunch will be provided. We are looking for people to sew, people to iron, people to keep the coffee and tea coming, people to prepare lunch for those attending. All are welcome. Please rsvp to dean@allsaintscathedral.ca.

Join us for the return of the Huge Spring Rummage Sale - a tradition in Old Strathcona, Edmonton for 50 years! POSTER

Holy Trinity Anglican Church, 101 Street & 84 Avenue NW
*Friday, April 29, 12:00 – 9:00 pm
*Saturday, April 30, 9:30am – 3:00 pm  

Donated items will be accepted from Sunday, April 24 to noon on Wednesday, April 27. Masks are encouraged. Thank you! 

The Cursillo Community will help serve a dinner at St. Faith's Anglican Church on April 29 and we would love for you to join us. We will meet at 4:00pm to help with set-up and get prepared to serve the supper meal. We will also be involved in the clean up and should be finished by 8:00pm. Get in touch at cursilloedmonton@gmail.com if you have any questions.

An informal Zoom gathering to hear Bishop Stephen London speak about what's been happening at the national, provincial and local church levels, and answer your questions. Wednesday, May 4, 12 pm  /  Wednesday, May 4, 7 pm

St. Thomas's Anglican Church in Sherwood Park is hosting a reconciliation event on Saturday, May 7 from 2:00-4:00pm. Join us for a fun and interactive conversation around reconciliation through smudge, prayer, stories and crafts as we dream together about reconciliation and how we can actively participate in this important work. Bring the whole family! All are welcome and encouraged to attend. We look forward to seeing you there! POSTER

St. Augustine’s Parkland Anglican Church, 131 Church Road, Spruce Grove, will hold its annual Plant Sale in time for Mother's Day on Saturday, May 7, from 10 am -1 pm. This sale features hanging baskets, a variety of planters and individual geraniums, dahlias, begonias, and may also include some of the new, colour-changing marigolds.

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The Church of God endures from generation to generation. However, what it means to be the local church in any given place and time is always changing. That is no different today. In a former age, when church attendance was high, and funding plentiful, it may not have seemed unreasonable for every urban neighbourhood or rural town to have six or seven different churches of varying denominations all within the space of a few blocks. Today, however, with shrinking church communities and declining resources being the more norm, it is no longer a matter of preserving the local Anglican, Lutheran, United, or Presbyterian church on a given street, but rather of trying to figure out how to maintain a vibrant Christian ministry presence at all. Ecumenical Shared Ministries (ESMs) represents a way of moving forward. Please join us for this workshop and discussion! POSTER

The Anglican Diocese of Edmonton and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada Synod of Alberta and the Territories will host this celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Waterloo Declaration: the decision by the two denominations to enter into full communion with one another. Co-sponsored by the Anglican dioceses of Athabasca, Calgary and Yukon, the service will be held Sunday, May 15, 7:00 pm, in person at Hosanna Lutheran Church, 9009 163 ST NW, Edmonton and live-streamed online. POSTER

This year's Marriage Enrichment Weekend will include a series of live presentations online via Zoom, each followed by private writing and discussions offline. POSTER
**Friday, May 13, 7:00-8:30pm  
**Saturday, May 14, 8:00am-5:00pm  
**Sunday, May 15, 8:00am-1:30pm
Testimonial: "We decided to do a Virtual Weekend last year. We found the sessions & pace very good and we loved the discussions it prompted between us.  It definitely brought us closer together, we’d certainly recommend it to other couples. It has has lasting effects.” 

The Anglican Foundation of Canada has launched its 2022 Say Yes! to Kids fundraising campaign, which has two main goals: 

• Encourage parishes and dioceses in their efforts to reach and support youth, especially in a post-pandemic environment
• Move away from an unpredictable year-to-year grant application model to a more sustainable fundraising model 

20 teams throughout the country (parishes and dioceses) have joined, but there is room for more! The campaign runs until the end of June. The application deadline has been extended to May 3. Click below to watch the 8-minute campaign launch.

Registration is now open for Base Camp 2022, set to take place at Lesser Slave Lake Provincial Park from July 3-8. Diocesan Camp Director, Dr. Mark Armstrong, is hopeful that Base Camp can go ahead after being postponed two years in a row because of the pandemic. For continued safe-guarding, all junior high aged teens who have had two COVID-19 vaccinations are invited to sign up to come and enjoy some summer fun.

The Anglican Parish of Christ Church in Edmonton is a vibrant and growing city church, seeking an associate priest to join the team and share in supporting ongoing and emerging ministries. For more information, please see the job description. 

St. Mary's Anglican Church in Ponoka is seeking a new rector. This full-time position will combine .75 time with St. Mary's and .25 time with the Church of the Epiphany in Rimbey, a half-hour drive away. This arrangement has been made with the Anglican Diocese of Calgary, of which the Church of the Epiphany is part. The two parish profiles are combined here.

"Team Anglican" met and exceeded its goal of 100 donations of blood and/or plasma in 2021. For 2022, the bar is set higher, at 120. For privacy reasons, the diocese doesn't know exactly how much each person donates, but we currently have 42 donors on the team. 35 are listed as "active" and 12 of those have appointments to donate at some point in the future. 

Anyone who is able to offer this gift of life is encouraged to do so. If you'd like to join the team, Click here and enter our Partner ID: ANGL696986. To donate blood, call: 1-888-236-6283 or visit Canadian Blood Services.

Click on the button below to see a listing of online resources, including Sunday services and weekly prayer live-streams and videos, online study, music and children's ministry links. We continue to update this list, so please share your creative ways of being church at home! Send your ideas to churched@edmonton.anglican.ca

This year sees a convergence of holy days and seasons among the Abrahamic faiths during the month of April: Passover for Jews, Lent and Easter for Christians, and Ramadan for Muslims. As faith communities, these overlapping holy days afford us an opportunity to foster mutual understanding and celebrate our shared humanity while helping those who may not have enough in our society. And so, from April 15 - 30, parishes and parishioners have the opportunity to make a contribution to their local foodbank at www.give30.org/donate. Let's be generous, kind, and compassionate to the friend and the stranger alike and respond to selfishness with generosity, division with social solidarity, and meanness with compassion and kindness.

Providence Renewal Centre invites applications for the full-time position of Program Development & Communications Director. The successful candidate should have experience in program development, marketing, facilitating groups and designing prayer rituals, as well as excellent communication and computer skills, and the ability to work in a team environment. See the job posting for full details. 

Every year, the Society of St. Vincent de Paul North of 60 Project ships sea containers full of goods and supplies to nine northern and Arctic communities. St. Albert AB is partnered with the hamlet of Ulukhaktok, located on Victoria Island in the Beaufort Sea. Ulukhaktok (pop 450) is only accessible by air and, for a few summer months, by sea. Once the St. Albert sea container is packed with food and necessities, in May and June, it is trucked with other containers, to Hay River. In July, the containers are loaded onto sea barges, which travel down the MacKenzie River to the Beaufort Sea, dropping off containers at communities along the way. Ulukhaktok’s sea barge arrives in the fall. This year's project includes a special request from the Anglican Church of the Resurrection in Ulukhaktok.

We are excited to announce the return of our in-person fabric sale, raising funds in support of the Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign of The Stephen Lewis Foundation . Mark your calendars for Saturday, April 30, from 9 am to 3 pm, to peruse thousands of metres of fabric ($2-5/metre), yarn, notions, craft supplies and dress patterns. The sale will be held at Strathearn United Church, 8510 95 Avenue, Edmonton. Admission charge of $2 (cash only). Payment for fabric, etc. by cash or credit card. Masks required. Get up to date information on Facebook  or on our website 

Kokopelli Choir Association is thrilled to bring back its annual children’s choir showcase after a three-year absence. Song Quest returns to St. Andrew’s United Church (9915 148 Street NW) Saturday, April 30 at 1:00pm.

“We’re so proud of our three youngest choirs,” says Kokopelli artistic director Scott Leithead. “Years ago, we started including a concert just for them. Of course, that’s all been on hold for the past couple of years—so, for some of these singers, it will be their first time ever in front of a live audience.”

For details and tickets, visit kokopellichoirs.com/performances/upcoming-events. Attendance will be limited to allow adequate distancing, and masks will be required. For more information contact Tammy-Jo Mortensen, Operations Manager by email at tammy-jo@kokopellichoirs.comor by phone at 780-977-7295.

Food & Faith: Cultivating an Appetite for Change is the final public lecture in our Climate Hope Speaker Series. The Bible is a book about food; come discover a robust food ethic in scripture. Join Roy Berkenbosch, founding director of the Micah Centre at The King’s University, for an in-person or online evening on April 30 at 7 pm. Open to the public by donation. Phone 780-459-5511 or register at www.starofthenorth.ca/climate-hope 

Caring for others, responding to others, and coping with conflict and change on a continual basis is always part of the ministry of clergy. It can take its toll - especially in the context of a pandemic that has resulted in isolation, grief and loss, financial stress, and for some, despair. We believe that resilience arises and develops when self-awareness, self-care, and community and spiritual renewal are actively engaged. This 3-day workshop, to be held May 1-4, will provide a resilience development program with opportunity to reflect, interact with others, and to be seen, heard, and understood. The retreat is led by three skilled professionals: Marv Westwood, David Kuhl and Lin Langley. 

Registration is now open for the 2022 Annual Meeting of the Society of Scholar-Priests, in Denver, CO, June 9-10. Proposals for papers on Theology and the Parish are due by May 5.

Get all the details about the conference, including recommendations for lodging, at the Annual Meeting page on the SSP website. Or for questions about the society, contact locally the Rev. Dr. Myron Penner, rector at St. Paul's Anglican Church in Edmonton, who is Secretary of the society. St. Paul's phone: 780-455-0771.

The CRA Policy workshop will outline the obligations of parishes with registered charity status. It will be offered on Tuesday, May 17, from 12 pm to 1:30 pm. Topics covered include resources for charitable purposes and activities; maintaining adequate books; filing T3010 Annual Information Return; receipting of gifts; fundraising/allowable business activities. The presentation will be delivered via Zoom. Attendance will be limited to 15 people to allow for participant engagement and interaction. The cost to register is $50/person or $25 with multiple participants from the Edmonton diocese. To register or for more information, please email: david@oylerconsulting.ca 

Apply now for this paid internship. Participants will receive a stipend of $5,000 for this nine-week program as they hone their leadership skills, working with a service organization in Montreal, and respond to some of the most pressing issues of our time. POSTER 

The College of Emmanuel & St. Chad, the Lutheran Theological Seminary, and St. Thomas More College, all based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, invite you to this conference June 13 -16, 2022. The conference will be held entirely online and is the first annual summer learning event co-sponsored by the three schools of the Saskatoon Theological Union in partnership with St. Thomas More College. See the POSTER for more information.

Is your family looking to get away this summer to a place where the sun shines, children play freely and adults find soulful nourishment with others who are also looking for meaningful experiences? Find a program for you and your family at Sorrento Centre. Click here to take a look at the variety of courses and leaders who bring rich and dynamic programming.   

Providence Renewal Centre will offer the Presence program starting this fall. Applications are open now!

This two-year training program focuses on spiritual growth and faith development of participants, along with growth in prayer and discernment as crucial elements in spiritual direction training. A mix of  in-person and online learning, this two-year program runs 2022-2024. Visit the website for more information & registration documents, or call 780-701-1852 for more information. POSTER

In September 2022, the Anglican monastic community of the Sisterhood of St. John the Divine will begin the fifth year of the Companions Program. This is an opportunity for women ages 21 and up to join the Sisters for 11 months either as a residential or online Companion. See attached POSTER for more info.