11135-65 Avenue Edmonton, Alberta T6H 1W3 · Traditional Lands of Treaty 6 First Nations and the homelands of the Métis Nation of Alberta Region 4
Our Organization
Our Organization
The Our Organization area of our website has resources helpful to those actively participating and working within the congregation.
Organization Chart
The Organizational Guide contains the policies and organizational guidelines under which we govern our congregation.
Becoming a Member
Interested in making yourself at home with Westwood? There is a simple and lovely process to become a member, which carries certain privileges and expectations. Contact Membership for information.
Shared Ministry
Westwood is deeply committed to ‘Shared Ministry’ – where the work of the congregation is balanced between members, friends, staff and professional leadership.
Ministry at Westwood is more verb than noun – with the emphasis on how we live out our beliefs and commitments.
Shared ministry is not just how we conduct Sunday morning services. Ministry means service, and we serve each other in many ways at Westwood.
Learning from the insights, skills and gifts of all who participate, we aim to honour diverse perspectives and strengthen our understanding of a meaning-filled life.
Read the Covenant of Right Relations for Westwood.
Learn about our Shared Ministry Team.
Lay Leadership
Westwood is currently lay lead by the Board and Team Leaders providing services and events for members, friends and the larger community. We collaborate with the larger Unitarian Universalist community though guest ministers for some services and events as well as participation in the Canadian Unitarian Council.
Lay Chaplins
In Canada, Unitarian Universalist Lay Chaplains serve the community by performing weddings, memorial services and other ceremonies. They are licensed to perform weddings in Alberta or the province/territory of their residence.
Member's & Friend's
What does it mean to be a member or friend of Westwood? Read more.
Our Board
Our board of trustees works together with staff and Westwood members to provide direction and stewardship.
Volunteers & Committees
Westwood is only possible through the help of many volunteers and the work of several committees.
Our Administor
Looking for the office administrator? Right here!
Ministry is that quality of being in community that affirms human dignity –
beckons forth hidden possibilities, invites us into deeper, more constant,
reverent relationships, and carries forward our heritage of hope and liberation.
Ministry is what we do together as we celebrate
triumphs of our human spirit
Miracles of birth and life
Wonders of devotion and sacrifice.
Ministry is what we do together – with one another –
in terror and torment – in grief, in misery and pain,
enabling us in the presence of death to say yes to life.
We who minister speak and live the best we know
with full knowledge
that it is never quite enough
And yet are reassured
by lostness found
fragments reunited, wounds healed
and joy shared.
Ministry is what we all do – together.