Dear Stony Plain Alliance Church family, The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness can never extinguish it. John 1:5 As we make our way through this season of Advent, there are a few things happening in our community that we’d like to draw your attention to. December 17 th  at 7 PM  is our Blue Christmas Service . In the middle of the rush of the season, this is a space where we offer a time of quiet reflection for those walking the road of grief, loss, loneliness, a

After some time with Jesus his disciples come to Jesus with a question. They have witnessed his teachings, his miracles of healing and deliverance, they have seen the way he responds to aggression and rejection, and they have seen his rhythm of escaping to the wilderness in prayer. They see Jesus, they see his dependence on the God he refers to as his Father, and they see how things happen when he prays. So one day as Jesus is praying in a certain place, they come to Jesus w

Anticipation is a powerful emotion.   We can be in an incredibly dark season, thinking that there’s no way through and that how it is now is the only way it can ever be. Then, often unexpectedly, something happens that moves our attention from the present to the future.   ​ An invitation arrives.   Someone you love says they’re coming for a visit.   An event gets announced that you’ve been wanting to experience.   ​ And while the difficulty of the present may not have changed