Greenfield, Alecia

Rev. Alecia Greenfield, Vicar
Holy Cross Andglican (Japanese) Church

Alecia Greenfield is Vicar of Holy Cross Anglican (Japanese) Church, Regional Dean for the Kingsway Deanery and works one day a week at the Diocese of New Westminster. She is Chair of the Diocese of New Westminster’s Climate Response Committee and Past Chair of the Ecclesial Province of British Columbia and Yukon’s Social and Ecojustice Working Group.She (virtually) attended COP26 in 2021 with the Canadian ecclesial delegation for the Love of Creation. Last year 2022, she led a series of local pilgrimages with a focus on environmental awareness.

Alecia lives with her husband, Jeff Calvert in Lynn Valley. She has two children, who are in various stages of moving out. In her spare time, she is a textile artist.

 

Alecia Greenfield spoke to us in January 2023

Midsummer Festival

Each June we have a booth at the Midsummer Festival on the grounds of the Scandinavian Community Centre. In addition to handing out information about our club, we also sign up new members. Everyone is invited to come out to enjoy this fun annual event. If you have time available, why not consider volunteering to help with our booth?

Christmas Party

 

In December, instead of our usual monthly dinner meeting, we have our annual Christmas party. Our guests are welcomed into the hall by the cheerful sounds of the Runeberg Choir. We have a fabulous Scandinavian Christmas dinner, followed by dancing to live music.

Monthly Dinners

Our dinner schedule for 2024 will be: Feb 14th, Apr 10th, TBD. Social hour starts at 6:00pm, dinner at 7:00pm and the dinner speaker starts at about 8:00pm. The dinner is Scandinavian and usually starts with herring and salmon open-faced sandwich appetizers and ends with coffee/tea and delicious Scandinavian desserts. The theme for the after dinner talk is usually business related and hopefully with a Scandinavian connection but we also schedule other speakers of interest. Two meetings of the year we have no speaker. Instead, in February we have our Annual General meeting where we discuss business for the upcoming year and elect our new board of directors. In June, we have our annual joke-telling contest and discover who, among us, is the best teller of jokes.