2024 APD Conference Report

District Diaries December 2024 Edition
by Marvin Penner

The last thing we did at the 2024 Alberta Parkland District conference was to ask the question, “What do you dream about that we could do in the APD when we work together for a common purpose?”. All of the responses were focused around two priorities. 

1. Church Leadership development (from youth to Pastors) and
2. Working together towards gospel ministry, revival, church planting.

You can participate in these two priorities right now by:

1. Making plans to take in the Leadership Training in Wainwright on January 25. Invite a few friends and young people to come with you.  https://albertaparklanddistrict.ca/leadership-training.html#/
2. Communicate with our APD Mission Coordinator Tyler Hanson. Tyler is seeking people from around the district to join him on an APD Mission [email protected].

​The Erskine EFC did an amazing job hosting us. Dr. Tyran Laws encouraged and challenged us from God’s work while prof. Kelly Steffen lead us in table discussions. Marvin Penner was elected to a second 3-year term as District Superintendent and Greg Clairmont (CHET coordinator) and Tim Besuijen (Vice Chair) were added to the APD.

Board. The recommended donation amount per attendee for 2024-2025 is $66. The APD has anywhere from 5-20 donors each month. Please consider making consistent monthly donations as this would make budgeting and planning much simpler for the APD board. If you would like assistance in automating monthly contributions, or if you would like to change your automated contribution amount, please contact APD Treasurer, Bryce Leschert at [email protected] / 403-741-5988.

    Even as we look towards developing leaders and gospel ministry we can not forget that we have some small churches that could use a boost. To this end we took up an offering at the conference towards the building fund of the Eckville EFC. If you choose to participate in this offering, designate your gift appropriately. ​