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Sacred Assembly Schedule

Schedule for 30th Anniversary Commemoration of the 1995 Sacred Assembly of Elijah Harper

Canad Inns Destination Centre Polo Park, 1405 St. Matthews Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba

January 23, 2026 -Friday

January 24, 2026 -Saturday

9:00 a.m. Registration Begins

 

1:30 p.m.  Roll Call of the Nations

We want to encourage the delegates from all nations that are gathered to come wearing traditional dress and if possible displaying musical instruments from their nation to enter the Convention Centre in procession during Gathering Songs by Broken Walls Band.

 

2:00 p.m. Welcome - Mayor Scott Gillingham, City of Winnipeg

 

2:15 p.m. Remarks - National Chief Cindy Woodhouse-Mepinak, Assembly of First Nations

2:45 p.m. Chief Samuel Knott, Red Sucker Lake First Nation, Fred Harper & Elijah's Family

3:15 p.m. 1995 Commemoration - Wallace McKay

3:30 p.m. Indigenous Biblical Spirituality:  Adrian Jacobs (Six Nations) Senior Leader for Indigenous Justice and Reconciliation, Christian Reformed Church in North America

4:15 p.m. Indigenous Spirituality Perspectives:  Chief Derek Nepinak -Minegoziibe (Pine Creek First Nation), former Grand Chief, Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs

5:00 p.m. Closing Remarks and Break for Supper (on your own)

 

7:00 p.m.  Broken Walls Worship Concert (Open to the Public)

At the December, 1995 Sacred Assembly, Elijah Harper requested Jonathan Maracle to sing Amazing Grace with a Native Drum.  It turned out that he used his Native Drum to release a new song that was given to him just before he was to sing, a song entitled Broken Walls, which literally resulted in a breaking down of walls among the people who were present.  His ministry has been about breaking dividing walls ever since, between young and old, between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous, between Jew and Gentile.  Jonathan Maracle with his band of Bill Pagaran and Josh Maus will do an evening concert along with First Nation's dancers Rita Bear Gray, Kelly and Mikayla Adkins, Gerard and Pita Roberts, Kenny Wallace and Yolanda Kikawa.

8:00 a.m. Breakfast served for registered delegates

 

9:00 a.m. Opening Prayer - Elder Dolly Wilson

9:15 a.m. Recap of Day 1 - Wallace McKay

 

9:30 a.m. 1) Evangelical Fellowship of Canada - Joel Gordon - Documentary 1995 Sacred Assembly Trailer

                     2) Canada Awakening Video - Roger Armbruster - Elijah Harper & Prime Minister Jean Chrétien - 1995 Sacred Assembly

 

10:00 a.m. Presentation by Rev. Daniel Kikawa, President of Aloha Ke Akua Ministries, PhD. (Intercultural Studies, Kalapana, Hawaii)

10:45 a.m. Break

 

11:00 a.m. Samoan Chief Vae Eli - From one of the Royal Families from the Island of Samoa

11:30 a.m. Ann-Nee-Moo-Chee-Kay-Winn (Time for Dialogue and Q&A)

 

12:15 p.m.  Lunch for registered delegates

1:00 p.m. Ann-Nee-Moo-Chee-Kay-Winn (Time for Dialogue and Q&A)

 

2:00 p.m.  Ooh-Nee-Kah-Nee-Tah-Mah-Kake (Panel Discussion)

3:15 p.m. Break

3:30 p.m. Ann-Nee-Moo-Chee-Kay-Winn (Time for Dialogue and Q&A)

5:00 p.m. Closing Remarks and Break for Supper (on your own)

 

7:00 p.m.  Keh-Weh-Kah-Winn - Time of sharing, networking, music, and storytelling (Open to the Public)

7:00 a.m. Breakfast for registered delegates

 

8:30 a.m. Time for Prayer, Songs, Message - Daniel Kikawa

9:30 a.m. Elijah Harper Memorial - Elder Ron Beardy

10:00 a.m. Reports by Monitors - What was said? - Recommendations & Directions

10:30 a.m. Break

10:45 a.m. Monitor Reports Continued....

10:45 a.m. Ann-Nee-Moo-Chee-Kay-Winn (Time for Dialogue and Q&A)

 

12:15 p.m. Closing Remarks & Acknowledgments - Wallace McKay with Planning Team

 

12:45 p.m. Closing Prayer 

 

1:00 p.m.  Departure to our homes with intention to carry Elijah Harper's Vision forward in our own communities and beyond...

January 25, 2026 -Sunday

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