Upcoming Events & Activities

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    For the sixth year in a row, the ELCIC bishops and assistants to the bishops have agreed to provide sermons for congregational use from April to September 2025.

    Resources include both text and video files of the sermons for each week. These are downloadable files that may be used as part of your congregation’s worship in whatever way works best for your context.

    As sermons are submitted and edited, they will be posted publicly to the online folder and made available for download.

    Not only are the sermons helpful to use if you need to cover vacation leave over the summer but they are a wonderful way to introduce members of your congregation to our bishops and assistants to the bishops from across the ELCIC.

    To access these resources, please complete the following form by clicking here.

  • Registration is now open for the ABT Synod Pre-Clay 2025 Trip

    Find information here.

    Youth participants register here.  Youth consent form and covenant is available here.

    Home Team Leaders register here.  Home Team Leader covenant is available here.

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    ABT Synod is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

    Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89674419219

    Meeting ID: 896 7441 9219

    Please note that there will be no meeting in January 2025.

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    ABT Synod is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

    Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83444271784

    Meeting ID: 834 4427 1784

    Please note that there will be no meeting in January 2025.

  • If you are donating to the Synod by e-transfer,

    please ensure that we have your current mailing address on file; this will enable us to issue you a tax receipt.

    E-transfers to the Synod should be linked to abtfinance@elcic.ca.  Pertinent details may be included in the message line.

  • Worship Online

    Many congregations in our Synod are livestreaming their services.

    They invite you to join them online for worship on Sunday morning;

    information and links to join are available here.

  • June monthly message for Congregations, Lay and Rostered Leaders

    May/Easter monthly message for Congregations, Lay and Rostered Leaders

    Video of May/Easter message for Congregations, Lay and Rostered Leaders

    A message of hope for Congregations, Lay and Rostered Leaders, from National Bishop Susan and the Synod Bishops

     

Past Events & Activities

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    On Tuesday, May 13, 2025, the Synod Staff (Bishop Trish, Assistants to the Bishop, Rev. Margaret Koizumi and Rev. Olav Traa, and Office  Administrator Marla Berg) participated in a Retreat for Church Staff at Kuriakos.  We thank Pastor Kristian Wold, Executive Director, and other camp staff for leading worship and a variety of activities. It was a beautiful day to connect with God’s creation, others called to serve in this way, and with one another; other participants included staff from Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd in Red Deer, staff from Messiah Lutheran in Camrose, staff from Holy Spirit and St Paul’s Ellerslie in Edmonton.

  • Discovering Colombia

    Bishop Trish recently returned from Colombia where she accompanied our international partner church, The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Colombia (IELCO), as they met in Assembly and elected a new bishop, Bishop John Rojas.  Bishop Trish, her husband Ken, Bishop Larry and Cathy Kochendorfer then spent a week visiting the various ministries of IELCO.

  • Rostered Leaders, retired and active, and others gathered for the annual Study Conference set to take place in Canmore, February 24-27, 2025.

    On Thursday morning a photo of those in attendance was taken to commemorate Thursday’s in Black.

    Click here to read about Thursdays in Black.