CHURCH NEWS
We're Celebrating 60 Years! I
Cast your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days. Eccl. 11:1 NKJV
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Alberta Adventist News
t will be a time for many to renew old acquaintances, make new friends, discover the many ministries and programs that the church provides, and reflect on our history. Although we have been located at our present address for 60 years, the seeds for our church were planted many years earlier, while Alberta was still a district of the Northwest Territories. George W. Sowler and Thomas Astleford, two young colporteurs who
MARCH 2020
Join Calgary Central for our 60th Anniversary Celebration and Rededication Weekend found inspiration in the above verse, were the first to spread the Adventist message in Alberta, arriving from Winnipeg in May 1895. Sowler was the field agent for Manitoba and the Northwest Territories. Astleford traveled to Edmonton, while Sowler stopped in Calgary, visiting various homes and selling about two hundred copies of Bible Readings.1 From Calgary, he travelled south, canvassing ranchers along the way to Fort Macleod.2
