Edmonton’s Salvation Army

The Christmas season is upon us, and apart from toys, kettles, and volunteers is music. I mean what would Christmas be without music. Silent Night is a lovely poem but it’s the music that makes it memorable. Saturday evening was Christmas with The Salvation Army in Edmonton. The band and songsters had been preparing and…

Reflecting on 40 years

In responding to the gracious words of Commissioners Floyd and Tracey Tidd in presenting our retirement certificates, here was our response: Wendy “Thank you, Commissioners Tidd, Floyd and Tracey, for your kind words. Thank you for the extraordinary effort to be with us as we mark 40 years of ministry and our retirement. We are…

Celebrating 40 years

Apart from birthdays and Christmas, we are not really good at celebrations. Even birthdays seem to pass by with only short reference to what it represents! So this week’s celebration of our retirement took on special meaning. It would have been easy to say that’s it, we are done, time to move on. But I…