Alberta Conference Event Registration

2026 Church Ministries Convention
2026-04-10 18:30 - 2026-04-12 12:00 (America/Edmonton) | Chinook Winds Adventist Academy, 10101 – 2nd Avenue SW, Calgary, AB, T3B 5T2, Canada
ONLINE REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED
Date: April 10-12, 2026
In-person Registration/Check-in starts at 6:30 pm
Venue: Chinook Winds Adventist Academy
Plenary Speaker: Dr Leslie Pollard (NAD)
Sabbath Morning Seminar: Dr Bill Payne (NAD)
Tracks:
1. Discipleship Track
2. Children’s Ministries Track
3. Youth and Young Adult’s Ministries Track
4. Communications Track
5. Stewardship Track
6. Natural Church Development Track
7. Leadership Track
8. Prayer Ministries Track
9. Worship Track
10. Church Clerk Track
11. Health Ministries
All participating churches will be charged a flat registration fee of $50.00. If you have 1 person attending the convention or you have 100. This fee is to help with covering the cost of the meals over the weekend.
Meals will be provided for all registered attendees over the weekend (Friday – Light Supper, Saturday Lunch and Supper, Sunday Lunch)

Health Leadership Training Workshop
2026-06-26 18:30 - 2026-06-28 12:30 | Parkview Adventist Academy, 5102 College Ave., Lacombe, Alberta, T4L 1Z2, Canada
Transform your community!
Connect, learn, and grow with health leaders from across the AB Conference.

Network with Health Leaders
Practical Skills
Community Impact
Holistic Health

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You must RSVP by June 24, 2026, in order to attend this free event. RSVP form is near the bottom of this page
Workshop Tracks

Hydrotherapy: Basic Home Remedies for Healing – DonnaLee Lehmann
Community Gardens with Purpose – Paul Pineo
Health Expos: From Planning to Impact – Dr. Darlene Blaney, PhD, NCP, CFT
Mastering the Plant-Based Cooking School: From Planning to Production – Nina Chernipeski & Sheila Beaudoin

See below for more details on each workshop track.
Important Details
A Potluck Haystack Lunch for Sabbath is planned: Please bring a contribution of any of the following items: Non Dairy sour cream & mayo, Non Dairy cheese/sauce, Salsa, Chili/beans, chopped lettuce, chopped tomatoes, sliced olives, chopped onion/green onion, chopped cucumbers, chopped peppers, kernel corn, Corn Chips, Rice, Buns, Dessert, etc. Plates, cutlery, etc., will be provided. The kitchen will be open Friday evening to bring ahead of time and put things in the refrigerator if needed.
Lodging: Each person is responsible for their lodging and meals outside of the scheduled workshop (Sabbath potluck haystack lunch & Sabbath evening Dinner will be provided). Burman Lakeview Hall has rooms available at a reasonable cost of $50/night for 1 person or $60/night for 2 people. Bedding is supplied. Each room has its own personal bathroom. To reserve a room, email deans@burmanu.ca. Each person is responsible for paying Lakeview Hall directly at time of check-in.
Workshop Track Details

💧 Hydrotherapy: Basic Home Remedies for Healing
Friday 7-9pm: Part 1, Sabbath 2-5pm: Part 2, & Sunday 9am-12pm
NOTE: Anyone who chooses this track must stay with it for all 3 sessions and cannot choose from the other tracks.
This practical, educational, hands-on course is designed to take full value of learning to gain confidence to conduct workshops/seminars for your church and community. It is a positive way to learn and practice basic health care treatments as well as learn the details of how to organize such events. For example, what is important in advertising, what equipment/supplies are needed, and why is risk management important.
You will have an opportunity in this workshop, with partners, to demonstrate a treatment for class member participation. Come prepared to have fun and to be involved! Wear casual, comfortable clothes that can get damp or wet.
Instructor: DonnaLee Lehmann is passionate about living life to the fullest and helping others do the same through experiential learning. Her university degrees are in Public Health and Occupational Therapy, and she has years of experience teaching university courses in wellness, international development, emergency and disaster relief management, and leadership. Though officially retired, she remains active in presenting workshops and seminars on natural remedies, hydrotherapy, and stress management as well as serving on various committees and boards. DonnaLee and her husband Paul have three adult children and three grandchildren. They work together and have presented at countless conferences, young adult meetings, camp meetings, churches, evangelistic events, and private gatherings across North America and internationally. Their presentations are geared to be educationally interactive and focused on personal and group growth.
Requirement: You will receive a list of items you will need to bring to this course.
Textbook: “Hydrotherapy, Simple Treatments for Common Ailments”; Clarence Dail, M.D. and Charles Thomas, Ph.D. – includes definitions, purpose and effects, indications/contraindications, important considerations, equipment, and procedures along with graphics, for each treatment. Available to purchase for $26.00 (cash only) at the workshop. *If you already have one of these hydrotherapy books, please bring it to this course.

Important Note: this course is not intended to certify you as a hydrotherapy practitioner.

🌱 Community Gardens with Purpose
Sabbath 2-5pm: Cultivating Well-Being – Smart Gardening for Alberta Minds and Spaces
Paul will discuss the physical and psychological benefits of gardening. The huge potential for growing a large variety of vegetables in central Alberta. The benefits of microclimate modification. Ways to grow perennial veggies not normally suited to our climate. Gardening for apartment dwellers & small fruit production. Bring your Questions for Answers on gardening!
Instructor: Paul Pineo lives on an acreage north of Crestomere with his wife on a property that used to be the Sylvan Heights School which later became the Mamawi Ataskotan Native School. Now it has turned into a large garden with a number of greenhouses. Paul has always preferred to be in the great outdoors. He feels the need to be continuously learning. Gardening satisfies both of these needs.

📋 Health Expos: From Planning to Impact
Friday 7-9pm: Part 1: Health Expos: Strategies for Community Transformation
Learn how to design and run a highly effective health expo that inspires lasting community wellness. This practical workshop covers everything from event logistics and volunteer coordination to engaging public communication and reliable screening techniques. Discover how to turn simple health tests into meaningful lifestyle conversations, and learn the exact follow-up strategies needed to transition one-time attendees into ongoing health programs. Perfect for health educators, ministry leaders, and volunteers looking to make a measurable local impact.
Sabbath 2-5pm: Part 2: Health Expo Hands-On Practice & Setup
Put your knowledge into immediate action in this interactive, hands-on experience. Participants will step behind the health expo booths to practice setting up testing equipment, running screening stations, and managing crowd flow. You will role-play common visitor scenarios, fine-tune your communication skills, and practice delivering health data with clarity and empathy. This live practice ensures your team leaves with the physical skills, technical confidence, and operational teamwork required to run a flawless, professional community event.
Sunday 9am-12pm: Children’s Health Ministries & Expo
Learn to launch dynamic children’s health expos that connect physical wellness with spiritual growth. This workshop covers kid-friendly station design, volunteer logistics, and interactive health games. Discover how to engage the whole family and inspire kids to make healthy choices that build a strong foundation for a lifetime of discipleship.
Instructor: Dr. Darlene Blaney, PhD, NCP, CFT, is a nutritional consulting practitioner, certified fitness trainer, and author with over 30 years of experience in health education and ministry. She is the Alberta Seventh-day Adventist Conference Volunteer health ministries coordinator as well as the Canadian Union Health Director. As the owner of the Total Health School of Nutrition, Natural Food store & nutrition practice along with her husband Ron, in Eckville, Alberta, she is passionate about teaching that vibrant health can be simple. Dr. Blaney specializes in using evidence-based nutrition and lifestyle medicine to prevent and reverse chronic diseases. She has authored four plant-based cookbooks (including the CHIP cookbook with Dr. Hans Diehl) and regularly conducts community seminars aimed at making sustainable, healthy eating choices accessible to everyone.

🍲 Mastering the Plant-Based Cooking School: From Planning to Production
Sunday 9am-12pm
You’ll receive ideas on planning and conducting a cooking class for a community and or a church. Information provided by power point, interactive discussions and practice demonstrations. Come join us in discovering how you can introduce healthy eating and impact your community.
Instructors:
Nina Chernipeski has enjoyed helping conduct cooking classes periodically for many years. First started when in high school. Since retiring from nursing and moving to Alberta from Ontario, the passion for health ministry continued. This lead to encouraging the formation of a health team, “Eat Rite” cooking classes at Ponoka SDA church. Now, as a team, we encourage young people to participate, and practice their talents.
Sheila Beaudoin

2026 Women’s Retreat
2026-09-25 - 2026-09-27 | Holiday Inn & Suites Red Deer South, 33 Petrolia Drive - Gasoline Alley, Red Deer County, Alberta, T4E 1B3, Canada
Get ready for a weekend of spiritual renewal, engaging conversations, soul-connecting fellowship and a reset.
We can’t wait to see you.
Theme
Grow Where You Are Planted
Keynote Speaker
Tammy Martins is the author of Designing Your Second Act and founder of Next Chapter Life Design. She helps women navigate life transitions with clarity and faith, and equips women to embrace each season with purpose, trust God’s direction, and live surrendered, meaningful lives.
Location
Holiday Inn & Suites Red Deer South, 33 Petrolia Drive, Gasoline Alley E, Red Deer County, AB T4E 1B3
Important Information

$250 Registration Fee, which includes 5 meals.
Early Bird Discount: Save $25 and pay only $225 if you register by August 6, 2026. Registration is closed August 31, 2026.
The retreat is opened to ladies 16 and over. Please note, no children, except nursing infants under a year.
Registration fee does not include hotel accommodations. All participants are responsible for making and paying for their own accommodation arrangements. Please reserve your guest room as soon as possible, as room availability is limited. $100 each if there are 4 in a room.
To reserve your hotel room, go to this link: Book My Room or call the Holiday Inn at 403-348-8485 and then press 0 to be directed appropriately (indicate our group name – Seventh-day Adventists).
For more information, contact: womensretreat@albertaadventist.ca.

Sabbath drop-ins are not permitted. All attendees must register in advance to attend.

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Registration Rates

Early Bird (tickets purchased June 22 to August 6, 2026) – $225
Regular (tickets purchased August 7 to 31, 2026) – $250

2026 Black Tie Affair
2026-11-28 18:30 - 23:30 | Alberta
Age 16+

$60 Early Bird
$75 after September 15
