We are a family of believers from different generations, cultures, denominations and walks of life from all over Alberta who share an unquenchable longing to see the manifested glory of the Lord fill the province of Alberta. We are walking together in a journey with the Lord to see the unique purposes He destined for the church of Alberta released and fulfilled.
The Alberta Project is being facilitated by a core team of proven Gen X leaders and senior fathers/mothers from Alberta. To learn more about our team, click here.
The Dream of God’s Heart
Before the foundation of the world, God had a dream - of a family and a home. By His word, the earth was created and within it He laid a jewel of beauty, a garden, which would be a home for His family, a man and woman created in His own image and likeness. And in the garden God rested in intimate fellowship with those He loved best.
Until one day the enemy came and deceived Eve and then Adam and through their rebellion, sin was born. And with sin, came fear, death, exile from their rightful home and worst of all, separation from the Father.
Yet none of this changed the dream in God’s heart. Knowing the end from the beginning, He put into motion the plan for the restoration of His family so that He might once again dwell with them in His fullness. First came the Law with its prescriptions to cover sin and instructions for a tabernacle, then for a temple that at the very least would allow the Father to dwell closer to His family.
But these were only a shadow of the ultimate plan of redemption: the Father would send His only-begotten Son to earth. And Jesus, being in very nature God, would empty Himself of all strength and power and humble Himself in obedience to death on the cross. As the one died for the many, the power of sin and death was destroyed and mankind was restored to intimate fellowship with God. Through His sacrifice, Jesus became the Chief Cornerstone of a new temple, a holy habitation, a dwelling place for the Lord built not by human hands but fashioned by God Himself from living stones – His sons and daughters. And this family, supernaturally knit together in divine unity and filled with His glory would then become a great light, shining in the darkness, a beacon for all those who have lost their way home.
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Throughout the earth today God is preparing remnants of believers whose hearts are not to fulfill a vision or build a ministry but to see the dream of God's heart fulflled in the earth. They understand that this dream cannot be realized through human wisdom or initiative (good plans or programs) but only by submitting fully to the Headship of the Master Builder, so that He might have the freedom to build His Church, His way.
Just as He did with faithful men and women of old, today God is inviting these surrendered remnants into journeys of faith with Him to fulfill specific assignments in the earth, each of which are like puzzle pieces in His master plan to bring all things into conformity with His will. As He restores all things, His unshakeable kingdom is being established and He is being exalted to His rightful place as King over one united body.
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We are a family of believers from different generations, cultures, denominations and walks of life from all over Alberta who share an unquenchable longing to see the manifested glory of the Lord fill the province of Alberta. We are walking together in a journey with the Lord to see the unique purposes He destined for the church of Alberta released and fulfilled.
The Alberta Project journey is facilitated by a core team of proven leaders.
Jim Bredeson - Jim has pastored in the Lutheran Church in various locations in North America for 30 years. He has a passion for revival in the province of Alberta, our nation, and the nations. He has a desire to see the generations united and fulfilling their God-given destiny.Jim has been journeying with the Alberta Project since its inception.
Barbara Dodds - Barbara has a passionate zeal for the Father's house that is expressed through her teaching and intercession. She and her husband, Murray, founded The Gathering Church in Calgary in 1999 with Barbara assuming senior leadership of the church in 2003. A deep hunger for God's presence and unity in the body led them to connect with the national journey of Watchmen for the Nations in 1999 and more recently to the Alberta Project, joining with others longing to see Alberta become "a resting place for God's glory.
Karl and Siobhan Feltmate - Karl and Siobhan carry a long-standing passion for seeing unity in the Body with the generations walking together in wholeness. They began ministry together over 15 years ago at the University of Calgary reaching students and seeing them released into their calling and ministry. With a background in professional dance, Siobhan has a call to see dance used to honour and bring joy to the Father's heart. Together they own and manage the Arts Abbey, a Christian dance school as Karl continues working with churches and ministries in Alberta mentoring and discipling the next generation. They are the proud parents of four lively kids.
Stephanie Muzyka – Stephanie has a passion to see the restoration of righteous foundations in Alberta and the Church of Alberta released to its end-time mandate in Canada and the nations. As a a video producer, writer and music producer she has had the privilege over the past 12 years of chronicling the move of God in Canada and in other nations.
What We Believe
Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of His household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the Chief Cornerstone. In Him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. And in Him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by His Spirit. Ephesians 2:19-22
As you come to Him, the living Stone—rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to Him—you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. I Peter 2:4-5
For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything. Hebrews 3:4
And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it. Matthew 16:18
Unless the LORD builds the house, the builders labor in vain. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the guards stand watch in vain. Psalm 127:1
“The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands. And he is not served by human hands, as if He needed anything. Rather, He himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else. Acts 17:24-25
In Him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of Him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of His will... Ephesians 1:11
From one man He made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and He determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. Acts 17:26
And in Him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by His Spirit. Ephesians 2:22
I pray also for those who will believe in Me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as You are in Me and I am in You. May they also be in Us so that the world may believe that You have sent Me. I have given them the glory that You gave Me, that they may be one as We are one— I in them and You in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that You sent me and have loved them even as You have loved me. John 17:20-23
Now the whole world had one language and a common speech... Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”
But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. The LORD said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.” Genesis 10:1;4-7
Who, being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something to be used to His own advantage;
rather, He made Himself nothing
by taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
And being found in appearance as a man,
He humbled himself
by becoming obedient to death—
even death on a cross!
Therefore God exalted Him to the highest place
and gave Him the Name that is above every name,
that at the Name of Jesus every knee should bow,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.
When He had called the people to Himself, with His disciples also, He said to them, “Whoever desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. 35 For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel’s will save it. Mark 8:34-35
For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of Him who sent me. John 6:38
So Jesus said, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he and that I do nothing on my own but speak just what the Father has taught me. John 8:28
For I did not speak on my own, but the Father who sent me commanded me to say all that I have spoken. I know that his command leads to eternal life. So whatever I say is just what the Father has told me to say.” John 12:49-50
Yes, LORD, walking in the way of your laws, we wait for You; your Name and renown are the desire of our hearts. Isaiah 26:8
Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD. Psalm 27:14
Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation—but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it. For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live. For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. Romans 8:12-14
For by wise counsel you will wage your own war, and in a multitude of counsellors there is safety. Proverbs 24:6
For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. 2 Corinthians 10:3
Elisha said, “Get a bow and some arrows,” and he [Jehoash] did so. “Take the bow in your hands,” he said to the king of Israel. When he had taken it, Elisha put his hands on the king’s hands.
“Open the east window,” he said, and he opened it. “Shoot!” Elisha said, and he shot. “The LORD’s arrow of victory, the arrow of victory over Aram!” Elisha declared. “You will completely destroy the Arameans at Aphek.”
Then he said, “Take the arrows,” and the king took them. Elisha told him, “Strike the ground.” He struck it three times and stopped. 19 The man of God was angry with him and said, “You should have struck the ground five or six times; then you would have defeated Aram and completely destroyed it. But now you will defeat it only three times.” 2 Kings 13:15-19
To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven. Ecclesiastes 3:1
He [the enemy] will speak against the Most High and oppress his holy people and try to change the set times and the laws. Daniel 7:25
Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. Galatians 5:25
There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. There are differences of ministries, but the same Lord. And there are diversities of activities, but it is the same God who works all in all... For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ. 1 Corinthians 12:4-6;12
The One who sent me is with me; He has not left me alone, for I always do what pleases Him.” John 8:29
We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord. So we make it our goal to please Him, whether we are at home in the body or away from it. 2 Corinthians 5:8-10