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Outreach & Support

The Coaldale Canadian Reformed Church supports various local, national and global organizations and programs that help to serve the invisible church and spread the gospel. Support can come in one or several formats such as action, prayer, or financial contribution. Check out our page to find out more information

Supporting Local

Sunny South Lodge
The Sunny South Lodge in Coaldale hosts local churches for fellowship with their residents on Sunday evenings starting at 6:30 pm. Our church is on their schedule 6-7 times in a year. All Bible Study groups participate by taking a turn leading an evening which includes Bible reading, prayer, a message and singing

Chinook Regional Hospital
The Evangelism Committee organizes fellowship meetings at the Chinook Regional Hospital in Lethbridge six times per year. Every other month, on the first Tuesday of the month from 10:00 – 10:30 am. They gather with patients of floor 5A (the Geriatrics and Rehabilitation Ward) for Bible reading, prayer, a message and singing.

Vacation Bible School
Helping to spread the gospel within the community, Vacation Bible School targets children ages 5-12, and provides a great opportunity to engage with their parents. This program, put on during the Christmas break and summer holidays, is a great way for children to learn about the word of God though bible lessons and fun filled activities. Event leader, group leaders, and kitchen help are just some of the ways one can participate.

Meals on Wheels
This service, provided by the community of Coaldale, requires volunteers to drop off a hot meal to individuals during times when meal preparation is unmanageable. This volunteer initiative is coordinated through Ladies Aid and takes place 2 months a year.

Rehoboth Christian Ministries
Serving people with disabilities, Rehoboth helps the disable flourish in life by providing some 50 group homes across Alberta, with a location right here in Coaldale! rehoboth.ab.ca

Coaldale Food Bank
The Coaldale Food Bank is committed to recognizing the human dignity of those in need and providing food and access to services and resources generated from within the community. coaldale.foodbank

Streets Alive Mission
Streets Alive Mission in Lethbridge, is dedicated to bringing hope to those who have none, by building relationships with the disenfranchised, through a variety of volunteer driven programs. Street Alive helps to provide for the physical, emotional, social and spiritual needs of the poor; to empower them to change their lives through the Gospel of Jesus Christ. streetsalive.ca

Lethbridge Pregnancy Care Centre
Offering support for women and men facing unplanned pregnancies and counselling for pregnancy related losses. lethbridgepregancycentre.com

Elim Village (British Columbia)
As Canada’s premier seniors’ living community, their mission is to provide seniors, living in a Christian community, an enriched quality of life. They value living out their faith, acting with integrity, while providing superior service. elimvillage.com

Coaldale Christian School
Educating students from K-12, Coaldale Christian School operates as an independent school. Its society is made up of parents who are primarily of the Reformed faith. CCS follows the Alberta Education curriculum and is able to educate, and also integrate students of all abilities. coaldalechristianschool.com

National

Anchor Home
The Anchor Association serve adults with developmental disability physical, social emotional and mental impairment. They are currently assisting 34 residents who reside in 5 group homes across southern Ontario. anchor-association.com

Canadian Reformed Theological Seminary
The first role of The Canadian Reformed Theological Seminary, operated by the Canadian Reformed Churches, is training of ministers of God’s Word. Faculty and students are committed to the authority of Holy Scripture and seek to interpret the Scriptures in accordance with the Reformed confessions. Academic excellence and practical relevance for the ministry are of paramount importance. canadianreformedseminary.ca

Men who want to attend the CRTS should know that there is finical support available the Committee to Aid Needy Students as well as a Pastoral Training Fund. The Theological Seminary library also receives finical assistance through the fundraising efforts of the Women’s Saving Action.

Streetlight Ministries
Streetlight is both a Christian ministry and a church, bringing glory to God through the gospel in downtown Hamilton. Streetlight exists to share God’s word with adults and youth in the Beasley neighbourhood, to connect them with other Christians and the worshipping community, to help them grow in their faith, and to encourage them to serve others in order that God is praised. streetlightministries.ca

Eglise Reformee du Quebec (ERQ)
The ERQ (Reformed Church of Quebec) is a collection of reformed churches in Quebec that focuses on proclaiming the good news of Jesus Christ and planting new churches in the area of Quebec. erq.qc.ca

Association for Reformed Political Action (ARPA Canada)
The mission of ARPA Canada is to educate, equip, and encourage Reformed Christians to political action and to bring a biblical perspective to our civil authorities. arpacanada.ca

Urban Mission
Urban Mission is engaged in the work of mission among the Chinese people in the Greater Vancouver area. Reverend Frank Dong is leading a Chinese Christian Fellowship every Sunday and an ESL class has also been started. langleycanrc.org

Voice of the Church
Voice of the Church presents weekly 15 minute radio broadcasts on God’s Word so that listeners may become more familiar with the scriptures and with God’s plan of salvation. Audio copies of the radio broadcasts may also be downloaded from sermonaudio.com. 

Covenant, Canadian Reformed Teachers College
Prepares men and women for careers in teaching and professional development in faithful submission to the Word of God as summarized in our confessions. covenantteacherscollege.com

Global

Canadian Reformed World Relief Fund (CRWRF)
The Canadian Reformed World Relief Fund serves as a bridge for our church members and churches to provide resources that address material needs of people suffering the effects of poverty through Christian motivated partners. CRWRF facilitates immediate aid to emergency and disaster situations providing food, water, clothing, shelter, and medical care after civil wars or natural disasters. crwrf.ca

Manna, Canadian Reformed Society for World Relief
Manna’s main objective is the long-term support and maintenance of the Mufu Children’s Home in Kenya. The Mufu home supports children who have been orphaned or half-orphaned because any surviving parent or any other relative could no longer care for them. The Mufu home is located near a small village on the lower slopes of Mount Kenya, approximately 25 km north of Embu and around a 3 hour drive from Nairobi.

Manna, Canadian Reformed Society for World Relief, was formed in 1983 in response to a request from Red Een Kind, the Netherlands, to sponsor the Mufu Children’s Home. Besides its main objective, Manna also provides relief in cases of emergencies that arise through disasters such as floods, earthquakes, famine and the like.

Come Over and Help (COAH)
An organization committed to spreading the Gospel across the vast population of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. People living in these areas have been deprived of this Good News for generations. COAH provides aid to Churches and Christians living in these areas. coah.org

City of Refuge
City of Refuge sponsorship program puts faith into action by helping foreign citizens displaced from their homes for a variety of reasons. To goal of the City of Refuge is provide financial assistance and help facilitate refugees as they build a new home in Canada.

Free Reformed Church of South Africa (FRCSA)
The FRCSA conduct extensive missionary work in South Africa, which is done primarily by three churches: the FRC Cape Town, FRC Mamelodi and FRC Pretoria-Maranata. This work is coordinated by the Mission Deputies South Africa. General Synod Chatham deemed these churches worthy of financial assistance to aid them in their missionary work.

The Free Reformed Churches of South Africa is a bond of churches with whom Canadian Reformed Churches have a sister church relation. These churches are Afrikaans-speaking. The first church was established in Pretoria on October 8, 1950. Since then many more churches have been established and the FRCSA operate their own theological college.

The mission work done by the Free Reformed Churches of South Africa is driven to “establish a network of living churches across the Republic that will instill the unity of the Kingdom of God amongst a multi-cultural and multi-lingual nation”. This goal is primarily achieved through the work of planting churches. frc.org.za

Indonesian Reformed Theological Seminary (Timor)
A reformed seminary that aims to prepare students to serve God and His church through the teaching of His Word. Their hope is that through this seminary the students can be trained to be servants of God and live in accordance with the Scriptures as it is summarized in the Reformed creeds. indonesianrts.blogspot.ca

Middle East Reformed Fellowship (MERF)
Middle East Reformed Fellowship (MERF) is an evangelical Christian missionary organization which serves in the Middle East, North Africa and Asia on behalf of Reformed and Presbyterian Family of Churches and believers worldwide. Thier work is bearing fruit for the Kingdom of Christ among the twenty-two nations of the Arab League and other Muslim areas in Africa and Asia. MERF strengthens national churches with ministries of evangelism, church extension, biblical training, and diaconal aid. merf.org

Mission Aid in Brazil
Mission Aid Brazil aims to provide Christian relief and development aid to needy people in Brazil by coordinating with the Aldergrove Canadian Reformed Church, the local Brazilian Reformed Churches and the Canadian Reformed missionaries in Brazil. missionbrazil.ca

Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF)
MAF is a worldwide team of specialists, meeting the aviation and communications needs of overseas missions and relief and development organizations serving those living in the poorest and most remote parts of the world. It was formed in 1945 under the name Christian Airmen’s Missionary Fellowship (CAMF).

Vision: “That all people have access to the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the resources to meet their needs.”

Mission: “We exist to demonstrate God’s love through aviation, communication, and logistics to meet spiritual and physical needs.”

Missionary staff families perform specialized tasks that aid the ministries of local churches and relief and development agencies through aviation and radio/internet based communications. Perhaps best known for aviation, MAF pilots and mechanics operate a large fleet that hauls food, seed, and livestock, transport sick and injured people, and deliver other supplies. maf.ca

Papua, New Guinea (PNG)
We support mission work that is overseen by the Bethel Canadian Reformed Church in Toronto. Bethel is engaged in spreading the good news of Jesus Christ in Papua, New Guinea along with the Free Reformed Churches of Australia and the Reformed Churches of New Zealand. reformedchurches.org.pg

Word and Deed
Word and Deed strive to address the spiritual and physical needs of people in the developing world in accordance with biblical principles. They partner with other Christian organizations on a wide variety of project including child sponsorship, Christian Education, orphan care, disaster relief and vocational training. Word and Deed also emphasize self-sufficiently under Christ, and works to enable people to provide for themselves by relying on personal skills and assets within the context of their community and country. wordanddeed.org

Children of Light
Children of light is just one of many projects supported through Word and Deed. In this project, underprivileged children from Indonesia are given access to Christian education.  wordanddeed.org

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The Athanasian Creed

This creed is named after Athanasius (A.D. 293-373), the champion of orthodoxy over against Arian attacks on the doctrine of the Trinity. Although Athanasius did not write this creed and it is improperly called after him, the name persists because until the seventeenth century it was commonly ascribed to him. It is also called the Quicunque, this being its opening word in the Latin original. Apart from the opening and closing sentences, it consists of two sections, the first setting forth the orthodox doctrine of the Trinity (3-28), and the second dealing with the doctrine of Christ, especially concerning the two natures (29-41). The teachings of Augustine (A.D. 354-430) in particular form the background to the section on the Trinity, and the decision of the Council of Chalcedon (A.D. 451) forms the background to the Christological section. The creed itself appears for the first time in the first half of the sixth century, but the author is unknown. It is of Western origin, and is not recognized by the Eastern Orthodox Churches.

(1) Whoever desires to be saved must above all things hold to the catholic faith.

(2) Unless a man keeps it in its entirety inviolate, he will assuredly perish eternally.

(3) Now this is the catholic faith, that we worship one God in trinity and trinity in unity, (4) without either confusing the persons, or dividing the substance. (5) For the Father’s person is one, the Son’s another, the Holy Spirit’s another; (6) but the Godhead of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit is one, their glory is equal, their majesty is co-eternal.

(7) Such as the Father is, such is the Son, such is also the Holy Spirit. (8) The Father is uncreate, the Son uncreate, the Holy Spirit uncreate. (9) The Father is infinite, the Son infinite, the Holy Spirit infinite. (10) The Father is eternal, the Son eternal, the Holy Spirit eternal. (11) Yet there are not three eternals, but one eternal; (12) just as there are not three uncreates or three infinites, but one uncreate and one infinite. (13) In the same way the Father is almighty, the Son almighty, the Holy Spirit almighty; (14) yet there are not three almighties, but one almighty.

(15) Thus the Father is God, the Son God, the Holy Spirit God; (16) and yet there are not three Gods, but there is one God. (17) Thus the Father is Lord, the Son Lord, the Holy Spirit Lord; (18) and yet there are not three Lords, but there is one Lord. (19) Because just as we are compelled by Christian truth to acknowledge each person separately to be both God and Lord, (20) so we are forbidden by the catholic religion to speak of three Gods or Lords.

(21) The Father is from none, not made nor created nor begotten. (22) The Son is from the Father alone, not made nor created but begotten. (23) The Holy Spirit is from the Father and the Son, not made nor created nor begotten but proceeding.

(24) So there is one Father, not three Fathers; one Son, not three Sons; one Holy Spirit, not three Holy Spirits. (25) And in this trinity there is nothing before or after, nothing greater or less, (26) but all three persons are co-eternal with each other and co-equal. (27) Thus in all things, as has been stated above, both trinity in unity and unity in trinity must be worshipped. (28) So he who desires to be saved should think thus of the Trinity.

(29) It is necessary, however, to eternal salvation that he should also believe in the incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ. (30) Now the right faith is that we should believe and confess that our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is equally both God and man.

(31) He is God from the Father’s substance, begotten before time; and he is man from his mother’s substance, born in time. (32) Perfect God, perfect man composed of a human soul and human flesh, (33) equal to the Father in respect of his divinity, less than the Father in respect of his humanity.

(34) Who, although he is God and man, is nevertheless not two, but one Christ.

(35) He is one, however, not by the transformation of his divinity into flesh, but by the taking up of his humanity into God; (36) one certainly not by confusion of substance, but by oneness of person. (37) For just as soul and flesh are one man, so God and man are one Christ.

(38) Who suffered for our salvation, descended to hell, rose from the dead, (39) ascended to heaven, sat down at the Father’s right hand, from where he will come to judge the living and the dead; (40) at whose coming all men will rise again with their bodies, and will render an account of their deeds; (41) and those who have done good will go to eternal life, those who have done evil to eternal fire.

(42) This is the catholic faith. Unless a man believes it faithfully and steadfastly, he cannot be saved. Amen.

Apostles' Creed

This creed is called the Apostles’ Creed, not because it was written by the apostles themselves, but because it contains a brief summary of their teachings. It sets forth their doctrine, as has been said, “in sublime simplicity, in unsurpassable brevity, in beautiful order, and with liturgical solemnity.” The Apostles’ Creed is based on the creed used in Rome around A.D. 400, which in turn goes back another two hundred years. It is typical of the creeds used in the western part of the Roman empire.

I.     1.  I believe in God the Father almighty,
               Creator of heaven and earth.
II.   2.  I believe in Jesus Christ,
               his only-begotten Son, our Lord;
        3.  he was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
               born of the virgin Mary;
        4.  suffered under Pontius Pilate,
               was crucified, dead, and buried;
               he descended into hell.
        5.  On the third day he arose from the dead;
        6.  he ascended into heaven,
               and sits at the right hand
               of God the Father almighty;
        7.  from there he will come to judge
               the living and the dead.
III.  8.  I believe in the Holy Spirit;
        9.  I believe a holy catholic Christian church,
                the communion of saints;
      10.  the forgiveness of sins;
      11.  the resurrection of the body;
      12.  and the life everlasting. Amen.

The Nicene Creed

The Nicene Creed, also called the Nicaeno-Constantinopolitan Creed, is a statement of the orthodox faith of the early Christian church, in opposition to certain heresies, especially Arianism. These heresies concerned the doctrine of the Trinity and of the person of Christ and were refuted at the Council of Nicea (A.D. 325). Yet it was not this Council but the Council of Constantinople (A.D. 381) which adopted the Nicene Creed. This Council incorporated into its creed various formulations from the decisions of Nicea and expanded the confession concerning the Holy Spirit. The Nicene Creed is typical of the creeds used in the eastern part of the Roman empire. Both the Eastern and the Western church held it in honour, although with one important difference. The Western church included the phrase “and the Son” (known as the Filioque) in the article on the procession of the Holy Spirit, a phrase which to this day is repudiated by the Eastern church.

We believe in one God, the Father almighty,
        Maker of heaven and earth,
        of all things visible and invisible.
And in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God,
        begotten of the Father before all ages;
        God of God, Light of Light, true God of true God;
        begotten, not made,
        of one substance with the Father;
   through whom all things were made.
   Who, for us men and our salvation, came down from heaven
        and became incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the virgin Mary
        and was made man.
   He was crucified for us under Pontius Pilate;
   he suffered and was buried;
           and the third day he arose, according to the Scriptures,
           and ascended into heaven, and sits at the right hand of the Father,
           and he will come again with glory to judge the living and the dead;
   whose kingdom shall have no end.
And we believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and Giver of life,
        who proceeds from the Father and the Son;
        who with the Father and the Son is worshipped and glorified;
        who spoke through the prophets.
And we believe one holy catholic and apostolic church.
We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins;
and we look forward to the resurrection of the dead,
and the life of the world to come. Amen.