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Come out Friday, December 23rd to hand deliver goodies and Christmas cards in the downtown area! Without an address or perhaps much family involved in their lives, those who are living homeless don't get a lot of personal touch. We will be reaching out to bless them with home-baked cookies, a card and the message and love of Christ. If you plan to come, please contact Pastor Dejan, who is arranging meeting location and details.

We will again be holding our Christmas Eve service at a home this year. Please be sure to get location  details or directions.

Because our service time is in the middle of the day, we will not be having service on Christmas Sunday afternoon in order to allow everyone to attend family gatherings. Be blessed, be a blessing, and enjoy some good time with Jesus, too. He is our greatest gift, and the Reason for the Season!!

New Year's Eve

Come out for snacks, fellowship and fun as we share the end of 2016 together! Games will be provided. Learn something new, or feel free to bring your favorite to share! Several different games will be going at once. We'll also close the year with prayer, worship and communion. What better way to close one year and start another? Hope to see you there!

Christmas Week schedule

Through the month of December we are continuing our study through the book of Second Corinthians. However, for Christmas Week itself we will have a few special events. See the schedule below, and plan to join us in celebrating and meditating on the birth of the Lord Jesus Christ, our Redeemer.

SUNDAY AFTERNOON

Join us for our weekly service in the chapel at St. Timothy's Anglican on Sunday with some special features in the main teaching and from our children's church.

TUESDAY EVENING

We will be meeting in Churchill Square and going out in pairs or small groups to minister love and hope to the often forgotten among us. Please dress warmly.

Ways to participate if you can't join us for this outreach due to work:

* BAKE a batch of cookies or other goodies 

(we can pick up Monday all day or Tuesday before 2pm)

*WRITE a thoughtful, personal Christ-centered letter or card from yourself or family

(duplicate 3-5 copies and bring Sunday or arrange pick-up)

WEDNESDAY EVENING

We will be gathering together in northeast Edmonton for a home fellowship with potluck-style dinner, Christmas carols, a devotional meditation and fellowship. Sign up for what to bring at the back of the chapel following services this Sunday and next.

We're looking forward to these times together during Christmas week as a church family and hope you will be BLESSED!

Join us August 17th!

Following the service we will be sharing together with a church picnic! If you care to bring a dish, item or salad we'll all have plenty to share. Table and serviceware provided. Come out and enjoy as we share summer food and fellowship!

Come Out For Good Fellowship & Food!

Don't let the sunny summer weekend keep you inside! We're having a church barbecue! Hosted at the home of a couple in the church, if you need address or directions, just give us a call. No need to bring anything but yourself. We hope to see you there!!

Easter Weekend

We will be having some special services April 18th and 20th as we meditate on Jesus' death and resurrection Good Friday evening and Easter Sunday. Come out and celebrate our freedom and our hope!

The Missing Habit

We live in a drop-out, opt-out, I'll do it if it's convenient and I feel like it culture. The world around us is incredibly consumer-minded and self-focused. So what is it then about Church attendance for the Christian? It isn't like school attendance. Is it a habit that is missing? For a lot of people, it is. 

In your elementary years, your teacher called roll at the beginning of every class. And missing so many classes or days had implications for your future. In the short term, it could affect your grade; in the long term, your academic advancement. Too many absences and maybe summer school was looming in the distance, thanks to the regulations of the local school board. 

Your pastor, on the other hand? He doesn't call roll. There is no roster of who is and isn't present on any given Sunday or event. So does that mean that church attendance is of less import than our formal schooling? Certainly not. Sure no one calls roll. But missing so many days or gatherings has implications for your future. In the short and long term, it could affect your spiritual advancement. 

Let's break down this term of "church attendance" for a moment. Some find it a bit staunch or stuffy, constricting or put-offish. 

Church. Is it a place you go, or something of which you are a key part? The Bible describes the collective followers of Jesus as the church. The church is people. So "church" happens wherever and whenever the church gets together to fellowship and worship Him. 

Attendance. It's being present at, taking part in, giving importance to, paying attention to... showing up. Life is busy for everyone. Setting aside scheduling conflicts with work, are we attending to our spiritual need to gather with other like-minded believers on a regular basis? Our lives are full and we fill them with good things, but are we lacking in this area? Is it our habit, a part of our lifestyle?

God's Word is like the local school board. Jesus is the Superintendent. He has set things in place for the Christian--His disciples--for our good. The book of Hebrews is all about how Jesus is better than anything else. It is full of warnings about drifting and neglecting our spiritual lives and equally full of appeals to spiritual diligence and pressing on in spite of any obstacle or hindrance, whether from without or within. 

Hebrews 10:25  says, "And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching."

Are you in the habit of gathering with your local church or are you in the habit of giving up meeting together? Habits are powerful and they take time to build and to change. 

If you are currently in the habit of meeting together with believers and encouraging them in their pursuit of God, don't give it up. 

And if you are habitually missing, pray for strength to break that habit and for the desire and commitment to cultivate the habit of regular church attendance. The body of Christ is missing you. You are a valuable member whose very presence helps the rest of the church to grow in love as you participate in the fellowship of the brethren.

"2nd Service" This Sunday!

This Sunday after service join us for food and fellowship as we warm up with a chili supper! 

The Bible is filled with examples of God's people gathering together to share meals and to do so with hearts of thanksgiving for all He has done for us, celebrating His goodness! The early church in particular is noted for gathering regularly to break bread together and fellowship.

Plan to stay for a blessed time together whether you bring something or not. That's not required. All will be provided, so just come and enjoy!!