Helping Others

Salisbury United Church has been part of our local community for over 100 years. Individually, our members have been involved in local organizations and programs at a variety of levels.  As a church we have also taken on small-scale projects to support those same organizations. These projects include food collection for the food bank, and sock, underwear and toiletry collection programs for the Bissell Centre's inner city drop-in program in Edmonton. We contribute to the annual Ecumenical Mission in Strathcona County which brings a variety of churches together for learning and inspiration. We also provide meeting space for a variety of community and education groups: Girl Guides, AA, TOPS, Art Classes, Music Classess, Martial Arts, Tai Chi, Grandmothers For Africa. As individuals and as a church, we value contributing to the well-being of the place where we live and worship.

​Raising Funds for Global Compassion 

In 2018 Salisbury United Church raised just over $17,000 for the Mission and Service Fund of The United Church of Canada.  Our support, pooled with the support of all the other United Church congregations across Canada, means that we assist 89 global partners, 74 Canadian community ministries, and a host of other programs and projects that help others close to home and far away. 
Engagement Committee

As of 2017, we have begun coordinating our engagement with our church, community and world through a Congregational Engagement Committee.  The first project of the Committee was in support of A Safe Place in Strathcona County.  The committee has begun to look at micro-loan programs to support self-sustainability projects through kiva.org and will be doing some discussion of spiritual gifts in the fall.

Exploring Our World 

From time-to-time we like to explore a variety of "big" issues which have a broad reach beyond our local community.  We have, for example, connected with a local water resource specialist and learned about water during a worship series one fall. As a result, we still continue to focus on our relationship with creation in the fall of each year. On other occasions we have explored special topics like Mental Health or Death and Dying over several weeks, usually during Lent in late winter. Two years ago, we participated in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission when it came to Edmonton and now celebrate Indigenous Sunday each June.  We continue to look at ways we can understand the world we live in and contribute to the well-being of others outside our immediate community.