In person and online.

**Holy Communion**

Isaiah 25:6-9 and Psalm 24
 
Revelation 21:1-6a
 
John 11:32-44

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Listen in each week to "For the Coming Day" A weekly podcast contemplation and song inspired by the gospel reading.  Available at the link below (scroll down) or on your smartphone.  Produced by Aaron Parker and rev. Jonathan:
https://anchor.fm/for-the-coming-day

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Hi All,

This All Saints, we will be reading names of those deceased remembered by our community - those who have become our Ancestors.

Please respond to this email with any names or otherwise let me know by Saturday evening

Jonathan+

There’s still a place for you.

Thursday, October 7 at 10:00 am

Ending before Advent at the end of November.

e-Mail Anne (wildrosie7@gmail.com) and she will send you this weeks excerpts from An Alter in the World.

Come and enjoy a relaxing time of  conversation on Thursdays as we  reflect together on excerpts from Barbara Brown Taylor‘s best selling  book,  An Altar in the World - a Geography of Faith. Taylor begins by reminding us of the words of the 12th century mystic, Mechtild of Magdeburg: “the day of my spiritual awakening was the day I saw–and knew I saw–all thing in God and God in all things`.  It is in this spirit Taylor invites us to discover altars everywhere we go and in nearly everything we do. So bring your coffee and gather around the (virtual) kitchen table or perhaps just settle into a comfortable chair as we enjoy each other's company and delight in recognizing  the Holy in the Ordinary.

Please join us in remembering and giving thanks for the life of Edna Tyler.

We gather at St. Augustine's
Saturday October 30th at 1pm for the service upstairs in the sanctuary and a simple reception to follow outside.

COVID-19 note: Please social distance and ensure that a mask is covering your mouth and nose while inside the church.  During the reception please only remove your mask to eat or drink while seated.

LIVESTREAM: If you would like to be part of the online community for Edna's service, please use the main 'livestream' link on this website.  The service is streamed through Facebook, but you do not need a facebook account to watch the video.

*If you would like to follow along, the service bulletin will be attached the day of the service:

Join us out front of the church for a warm fire, hot chocolate, and sweets on Halloween Night! (5:30-7:30

All social-distancing protocols in place.  Please keep 2m distance and use a mask to protect others.

HELP NEEDED:

-Drop by to help give out candy

-donate candy to be given out

-donate a large hot chocolate

-Bring a carved pumpkin within a day of the event.

Contact Jonathan+ or June Greig for details.

Introduction

For years, the land adjacent to St. Augustine’s Anglican Church has been slated for development.  After many great tries, it has become clear that it is not well suited for a large housing structure or other such initiatives.  Instead, the church has decided that the land be re-wilded and designed to serve both the church and the neighbourhood with community green space.  (The Annex building as well will be updated for use as a multi-use space for church and community.)

Guiding thoughts

• The current greatest detriment to the earth is a mass lack of biodiversity.
• All places are intrinsically sacred, and yet both indoor and outdoor spaces may or may not highlight this fact and invite people such and experience.
• We have a great asset in Permaculture which is a practice of high-level design applied to lifestyles and to landscapes.  Permaculture mimics natural systems by working with nature while also creating abundance for human life.  It includes regenerative farming practices, productive systems design, and forest tending.
• The life of St. Augustine’s is centered and funded by folks who are part of the Sunday morning community, but seeks to also be home to a multiplicity of communities: the Sunshine Garden, neighbourhood members, space-users, service organizations, and the arts, so it will make sense to engage members from these communities from the very beginning.
• We do not need to rush a ‘final product’.  The process is the product and success will be found in growing relationships, relationship to the earth, and common learning.

Our first steps are to develop a Vision and Values statement for the land and to brainstorm/imagine design elements that might suit this project. What is your vision for the space? Look at the ideas below and let Jonathan know any brainstorms (rector@staugustinesedmonton.com)

Possible Design Elements

• Memorial benches
• Circular path for seniors/mobility with walkers/wheelchairs with seating along the way?
• Kid trail on the way to school (safety and sightlines)?
• Like we slow water on a landscape to let it soak in, how can we slow people down as they engage the space?
• Create winter community spaces using lights, microclimates, structures, art, etc.?
• Winter events with choir, lights, food?
• Create hill space both for seating for an amphitheater (think about water capture also)?
• Limestone path for mobility?
• Labyrinth either dedicated in circle or as the path system itself?
• Natural playground elements?
• Memorial garden?  Pet memorial garden?
• Reflexology stones (for bare feet)?
• Large stones for sitting / meditating?
• Art and sculpture elements throughout?
• Poetry signs with changeable messages (changed seasonally)?
• Educational elements / signs?
• Permanent lemonade stand table that kids could book and use?
• Small things to invite kids in - sculptures, hidden surprises?

Tree ideas

• Fruit orchard?  (Maintenance the big issue here)
• Memorial trees?
• Old growth forest?
• 1000 year tree project?

Biodiversity Features

• Song bird habitat?
• Aspen forest space?
• Prairie grass space?
• Milkweed for monarch butterflies (sightings in Fulton this year!)?
• Native plants?
• Indigenous elements / medicines?
• Berries?
• Perennial, no maintenance food?

Others Ideas?

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St. Augustine's is happily a local extension of the greater Anglican Diocese of Edmonton.  A diocese is actually the most local 'unit' of the Anglican church.  Much of our parish life is supported and partially administered through our central Synod Office which includes the office of Bishop Stephen.

However, it can be difficult to sense this connection if you don't regularly see the many events and initiatives that flow in and through our diocese every week through the different ministries, parishes, and leaders.

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