Winner - Bloomin’ Turner Valley Contest

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Dear Sharon and Bill and the members of High Country Helps,

On behalf of Council, I am delighted to advise that you were selected as the winner of the Bloomin’ Turner Valley contest in the category of Community Spirit.

Your efforts in creating the Turner Valley Community Garden initiative is admirable. The project has helped people through the challenges of COVID-related restrictions and supported many by providing an opportunity to gather with others and to be part of a wonderful community effort.

You and the many volunteers are to be commended for lifting the spirits of so many in our community and for that, you are recognized as the winner of this year’s award.

Your efforts are sincerely appreciated. A cheque in the amount of $100 will be sent to acknowledge the outstanding project work completed by you and the organization.

Warmest congratulations!

Monique

Monique LeBlanc

Community Services and Business Development Manager

Month of Mission: Closing Worship, Today 1:00

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Please find below the Zoom link for today’s Closing Worship to our Month of Mission (Wednesday, June 30 at 1:00 pm).

We would love to have everyone join us as we end this particular missional focus, and to celebrate the baby steps that we have learned to begin (or continue) our stepping out in faith to bring the Good News in the forms of proclamation, teaching, loving service, social justice, and creation care.

Hope you are able to attend.

Blessings, Carol

The Diocese of Calgary is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Final Mission Worship  (PG)

Time: Jun 30, 2021 01:00 PM Edmonton

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87302291006?pwd=WENvVWFoajF5Z1VTeCtsZkRrM2tCQT09

 Meeting ID: 873 0229 1006

Passcode: 438164

Wycliffe College Zoom: How Mission is Flourishing During the Pandemic

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How Mission is Flourishing During the Pandemic

Date: June 15th, 2021

Time: 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM

Where: Virtual event over Zoom (registration is required…. go here to register)

The Institute of Evangelism invites you to join us for a free event featuring some good news stories and practical tips from on-the-ground leaders who are seeing God do exciting things through local churches, dioceses, and denominations during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In the Canada of today new life can be found in the Church right across denominations. We chose three panelists who have their fingers on the pulse of missional experiments and developments among Anglicans, Presbyterians, and Free Methodists.

The Panelists

Rev. Dr. Ross Lockhart - Ross is the Director of the Center for Missional Leadership at St. Andrew’s Hall, which is a part of the Vancouver School of Theology. Himself an ordained Presbyterian pastor, Ross is one of only two Professors of Evangelism in Canada. As such he equips both lay and ordained church leaders all over Canada to better share the gospel in their context.

Rt. Rev. Susan Bell – Susan is the Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Niagara, which geographically wraps around and extends out from the western shores of Lake Ontario. Since being elected bishop in 2018, Susan has been consistently moving the churches of her diocese on a more missional direction.  Her most recent project has been to develop the Niagara School of Missional Leadership to equip, and support lay and ordained leaders in the revitalization and planting of communities of faith.

Rev. Jared Seibert - Jared serves as National Director for Church Development for the Free Methodist Church in Canada. He also leads the New Leaf Network, an organization that supports and equips Canadian church planters. Jared has a passion for helping Canadian churches, whether newly planted or long-established, build healthy connections with their neighborhood for the sake of the gospel.

Month of Mission: Day of Fasting and Prayer - Friday June 11, 2021

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The Next event being held by the Diocese for the Month of Mission in June is the Prayer and Fasting Day, to be held this Friday, June 11.

This event will allow each of us to ask Christ to lead us in being missional, to show us those to whom we need to proclaim the love of God to, and to ask the Spirit to grant us the wisdom and the words to share with others of our stories and our faith.  We also ask for ears to listen to His voice as He whispers the lessons we need to learn, and the gifts of time and silence to clear the clutter of daily life so that we may have a renewed focus upon Him.

A Zoom time has been set up if you wish to pray with others, or to be prayed for, on Friday, from 9:30 am until Noon. Please mark your calendar and join us in praying for the work of mission that each of us is called to.

Diocese of Calgary is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Missional Prayer and Fasting Day (PG)

Time: Jun 11, 2021 09:30 AM Edmonton

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84186478045?pwd=dnZpaEFmV1B6TFhPYms5eDAxL2paQT09

Meeting ID: 841 8647 8045

Passcode: 101213

Sacred Circle of Prayer June 1-6

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From Mark MacDonald:

We invite you to join a Sacred Circle of prayer and ceremony, as we practice what we call Gospel Based Discipleship. Placing the Gospel in the Centre of the Sacred Circle, it is our way to move from institution to relationship. We join as relatives in Good News, as relatives to all, mourning the 215 Children. The Zoom invite is:

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82591609134

Meeting ID: 825 9160 9134

Every Child Matters!

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See the below prayer from the Diocese to help us through this time of trial.

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215 Beloved

A Time of Loss, of Mourning, of Prayer

We pause at this time to remember the 215 children whose graves have been discovered at the Kamloops Residential School.

‘A voice was heard in Ramah, wailing and loud lamentation, Rachel weeping for her children; she refused to be consoled, because they are no more.’

We pause at this time to lament with our Indigenous brothers and sisters and all feeling the tremendous hurt and sorrow.

We pause to remember those young lives, who never came home, who suffered, and whose potential and memory has been lost.

We pause and are reminded that there is much work still to be done, in learning the truth and in reconciliation and healing.

We pause to pray the Collect for the Holy Innocents: Almighty God, our heavenly Father, whose children suffered at the hands of Herod, receive, we pray, all innocent victims into the arms of your mercy.

By your great might frustrate all evil designs and establish your reign of justice, love, and peace; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who is alive and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.

Mission Month 1st Service Tomorrow 1:00!

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For the Kick-off to Mission Month, the Diocese will be doing a Worship Service and Spark Session combined. 

Please use the Zoom link below for Tomorrow only (the Zoom link for the other  Spark Sessions in June will be found in the Devotional sent out each Monday before the events).

Diocese of Calgary is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Mission Worship Kick Off 

Time: Jun 1, 2021 01:00 PM Edmonton

 Join Zoom Meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88542504798?pwd=RHlsYzlWT1lyQXpBTlBlK2dvdXBKdz09

 Meeting ID: 885 4250 4798

Passcode: 804326