
New United Church Ministers!
With the theme, Being Faithful in a Time of Great Change, the 85th Meeting of Alberta and Northwest Conference took place May 10-13 at Millennium Place in Sherwood Park, AB, with 313 registered delegates.
The photo gallery below tells in images and captions many of the events of the three and half day meeting. The 150 lay delegates and 163 ministry personnel who gathered heard reports on the Church’s work at each level, worked on proposals in preparation for the July 2018 General Council meeting and the Church’s re-organization. Highlights included reports from the Living into Right Relations Standing Committee and the Intercultural Committee. The meeting wrapped up with the Celebration of Ministry Worship Service where new ministers were ordained, commissioned or admitted to the United Church and retiring ministers were honoured. Full videos of the 2018 Celebration of Ministry’s are HERE.
The Conference meeting elected the following people whose names will be forwarded to the General Council Nominating Committee. Elected as nominees to the Board of Vocation were Anna Constantin, Adam Hall, Andrew Kinoti Lairenge, Murray Speer, and Wayne Youngward. Elected as nominees to the Executive of the Denominational Council were Britt Aerhart, Deborah Hoekstra, Stuart Jackson, Kimberley Roy, and Paul Douglas Walfall.
For best viewing of photos in larger format, please click on one photo to enlarge and then use arrows at photo’s side to scroll through images of the Conference’s 85th meeting.
- Evelyn Day – Esquao Elder, Moving Forward with Reconciliation
- Opening Worship Leadership: Taylor Croissant, Theme Committee Chair; Sue Brodrick, Calgary Presbytery; Paul Walfall, Yellowhead Presbytery
- Esther Baerends, Scott Reynolds join Music Leader MiYeon Kim on stage.
- Executive Secretary Shannon McCarthy and Executive Secretary Bill Doyle deliver their report to Conference.
- Guest Speaker: Aaron Miechkota, Iridesce Project
- Plenary sessions- MiYeon Kim, Donalee Williams, Tom Sawyer, Jim Kenney
- Ordinand Stephen Robert Harper speaks to Conference on Thursday Evening
- Ordinand Lisa Waites speaks to Conference on Thursday night
- Conference Staff Kathy Jackson and Bill Doyle- listening to ministry candidates on the Thursday evening
- Tif McNaughton, Commissionand speaks to the Conference delegates on Thursday evening.
- MiYeon Kim, Candidate to be admitted to the Ordained Ministry, speaks to Conference Meeting
- Christian Kakez-A-Kapend speaks to Conference on Thursday evening.
- Conference Personnel Minister Earl Reaburn offering the meeting a clarifying point on Friday morning.
- Esther Baerends, Scott Reynolds join Music Leader MiYeon Kim on stage.
- Alwin Maben, Chair, Intercultural Ministry Committee
- Yoon-Ok Shin Kang, Intercultural Ministry
- Intercultural Ministry’s presentation: Sandy Ferguson; Yoon-Ok Shin, Alwin Maben, Jun Hyok Chon
- Amy Mueller, Co-Chair, Living into Right Relations Committee (LIRR)
- Bill Phipps, Living into Right Relations Committee. Bill Phipps was United Church Moderator 20 years ago when the Church apologized to First Nations people for its participation in residential schools.
- Russel Burns and RW Hoekstra, Living into Right Relations Standing Committee
- Table Group Conversations
- Table Group Conversations
- Carolyn Woodall, Chair, Stewardship and Mission Education Committee. give early promotion for its October 19-20 Stewardship event in Red Deer. Registration will be up on the ANW Conference website in the weeks to come.
- Catherine MacLean and Joel Den Haan introduce the Alberta Land Trust to Conference delegates on Friday afternoon.
- Lorne Calvert, Principal, St. Andrew’s College, Saskatoon, SK
- Fred Tappenden, New Principal for St. Stephen’s College, Edmonton, spoke to delegates on Friday night.
- Rev. Heather Carlson leading worship on Friday night.
- Rev. Heather Carlson leading worship on Friday night.
- Saturday Morning Worship Leaders- Rev. Jun Hyok Chon; Rev. Julia Kimmett and Rev. Alwin Maben
- Julia Kimmett, Worship Leader, Saturday Morning
- Gord Waldie, Business Committee, introducing proposals
- Table Group discussions
- Proposals and Conversations- Kathy Jackson, Shannon McCarthy, Kathy Yamashita, Helen Reed
- Business Table: Paul Walfall, Kathy Koehler, Gord Waldie
- Table Group discussions
- Table Group discussions
- Table Group discussions
- Table Group discussions
- Behind the Scenes Tech from Unlimited Video Staging
- Commissioning the Commissioners to attend General Council’s July 2018 meeting in Oshawa, Ontario
- Commissioning the Commissioners to attend General Council’s July 2018 meeting in Oshawa, Ontario
- Commissioning-the-Commissioners-to-attend-General-Councils-July-2018-meeting-in-Oshawa-Ontario
- Children at Conference presentation, ANW Conference, United Church of Canada
- Children at Conference presentation.
- Conference Staff Person Kathy Jackson gives the Registrar’s report: “I’ve been telling people that more than 300 of my closest friends are coming to town this weekend.”
- Thank you to President Kathy Yamashita! Pictured are George Rodgers, Kathy Jackson, Shannon McCarthy
- Business Committee Members- Peter Chynoweth, Paul Walfall, Katharine Moore (Chair), Gord Waldie, Kathy Koehler
- Business, Technology and Communications Crew for Conference Meeting, 2018
- Business Commitee member Kathy Koehler and Executive Secretary Bill Doyle
- Celebration of Ministry Banquet
- Conference President Kathy Yamashita thanks the Retirees at the Celebration of Ministry Banquet, ANW Conference, United Church of Canada
- Neal Palmer interviews Retirees- Janice Stevenson
- Neal Palmer interviews Retirees- Marilyn Carroll
- Neal Palmer interviews Retirees- Paul DuVal
- Neal Palmer interviews Retirees- Roger Manuel
- Retiree- M. Lynn Elliott
- Retiring from Ministry- Curtis Tufts and Nel Ouwens
- Sally Boyle and M. Lynn Elliott
- Tech Support came from Unlimited Video Staging Inc and Conference Volunteers Stuart Jackson and Peter Chynoweth
- Celebration of Ministry Service begins with words from Taylor Croissant
- Christian Kakez-A-Kapend, MiYeon Kim, Tiffany McNaughton, Lisa Waites, Stephen Robert Harper
- Celebration of Ministry Service: Shannon McCarthy introduces Moderator Jordan Cantwell
- Celebration of Ministry Service- Scripture Readers Gordon Hunter and Sarah Fanning
- Celebration of Ministry Service:Preaching the Sermon- Moderator Jordan Cantwell
- Celebration of Ministry Service:Preaching the Sermon- Moderator Jordan Cantwell
- Celebration of Ministry Service – Honouring Retiring Ministers
- Celebration of Ministry Service – Honouring Retiring Ministers
- Celebration of Ministry Service – Tiffany McNaughton, Lisa Waites and Stephen R. Harper say their vows.
- Celebration of Ministry Service – Lisa Waites, ordination.
- Celebration of Ministry Service – Lisa Waites, ordination
- Celebration of Ministry Service – Lisa Waites, ordination
- Celebration of Ministry Service – Lisa Waites, ordination
- Celebration of Ministry Service – Lisa Waites, ordination
- Celebration of Ministry Service – Stephen R. Harper, ordination.
- Celebration of Ministry Service – Stephen R. Harper, ordination.
- Celebration of Ministry Service – Stephen R. Harper, ordination.
- Celebration of Ministry Service – Stephen R. Harper, ordination.
- Celebration of Ministry Service – Tiffany McNaughton, Commissioning
- Celebration of Ministry Service – Tiffany McNaughton, Commissioning
- Celebration of Ministry Service – Tiffany McNaughton, Commissioning
- Celebration of Ministry Service – Tiffany McNaughton, Commissioning
- Celebration of Ministry Service – Tiffany McNaughton, Commissioning
- Celebration of Ministry Service – Gordon Hunter, Conference Interview Board presents those being admitted to The United Church of Canada
- Celebration of Ministry Service – Christian Kakez-A-Kapend admitted to the Ordained Ministry of UCCanada
- Celebration of Ministry Service – Christian Kakez-A-Kapend admitted to the Ordained Ministry of UCCanada
- Celebration of Ministry Service – Christian Kakez-A-Kapend admitted to the Ordained Ministry of UCCanada
- Celebration of Ministry Service – Christian Kakez-A-Kapend admitted to the Ordained Ministry of UCCanada
- Celebration of Ministry Service – Christian Kakez-A-Kapend admitted to the Ordained Ministry of UCCanada
- Celebration of Ministry Service – MiYeon Kim admitted to the Ordained Ministry of the UCCan
- Celebration of Ministry Service – MiYeon Kim admitted to the Ordained Ministry of the UCCan
- Celebration of Ministry Service – MiYeon Kim admitted to the Ordained Ministry of the UCCan
- Celebration of Ministry Service – MiYeon Kim admitted to the Ordained Ministry of the UCCan
- Conference Assembly Choir at the Celebration of Ministry Service
- Kathy Yamashita & Jordan Cantwell preside at Communion, Celebration of Ministry Service
- Kathy Yamashita & Jordan Cantwell preside at Communion, Celebration of Ministry Service
- Kathy Yamashita & Jordan Cantwell preside at Communion, Celebration of Ministry Service
- Kathy Yamashita and Jordan Cantwell
- Kathy Yamashita and Jordan Cantwell
- Kathy Yamashita, Jordan Cantwell, Shannon McCarthy
- Celebration of Ministry Service – At the Table: Janice Stevenson and Lisa Waites
- Celebration of Ministry Service – At the Table
- Celebration of Ministry Service – At the Table Celebration of Ministry Service – Marilyn Carroll & Peter Chynoweth
- Paul DuVal & MiYeon Kim
- Taylor Croissant, Paul DuVal & MiYeon Kim
- Taylor Croissant, Stephen R. Harper
- New United Church Ministers!
- New United Church-Ministers plus one other!
- Recessional: Christian-Kakez-A-Kapend
- Final-Music-by-Conference-Assembly-Choir
- Musician Liz Paynter