Grace Communion Edmonton

Such a wonderful Mother’s Day celebration we had at church yesterday! We love you all moms!!

Word from the Pastor

This week we celebrate Mother’s Day. What a wonderful day to stop and remember all the wonderful things that moms do. We hope and pray every mom will have a blessed day. We have a few treats for our dear ladies on Sunday. The RCL’s theme this week is the Holy Spirit. Jesus’ great promise that He pointed towards. We read in John’s gospel. “And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you forever. This is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him because he abides with you, and he will be in you.” The concept of advocate, counsellor, helper or Paraclete to abide with us forever is truly a gift. Couple that with His constant leading us into truth is simply amazing and who wouldn’t want that?

Join us this Sunday for a special Mother's Day Worship Service, Communion followed by lunch afterwards.

Word from the Pastor

This week Pastor Bob will look at Connecting with God – How Does That Work? I’m reminded when my mom taught me to pray as a young boy, she said, “You can call on Him at anytime and you don’t have to wait in line.” When I got older and email was all the craze, I thought, praying is like email, because you don’t see it but your message travels through wires, and satellites and ends up delivered. Then we were able to text message with our phones, and that was even more amazing, your messages went through the air and magically appeared on someone else’s phone. But alas, it wasn’t perfect, some messages didn't get delivered, and some emails bounced or failed. Not so with prayer and our communication with God. No devices are needed and no power is needed and it’s instant! Connecting with other humans is truly an amazing technological achievement, but still pales in comparison to our instant access to the Holy of Holies and our loving Father.

See you this Sunday for Worship Service followed by lunch afterwards.

Word from the Pastor

This week we look at Jesus the Good Shepherd. Jesus uses the fascinating relationship of sheep and shepherd to explain our relationship with Him. We depend on Him, we hear His voice, we follow His lead. But it goes deeper than shepherd and sheep, we also learn about God’s kingdom. We recognize the Good Shepherd not only by His voice, but by the life of His kingdom. This relationship gives us abundant life, much more and deeper than the world could ever give. Join us this Sunday, where we will dive deep into this amazing relationship of sheep and shepherd.

See you this Sunday for worship followed by lunch afterwards.

Today after worship services we celebrated a 🇪🇷 Eritrean Coffee Time. Our Beloved Eritrean Ladies and Gentleman did a wonderful job sharing the Eritrean Coffee Ceremony. Coffee was so good!