A funeral service for Alden was held on April 29, 2022 at 1:00 PM at Centre Street Church Central Campus, 3900 - 2nd Street, NE, Calgary, Alberta.
Alden Aikens was born and raised in Trenton, Nova Scotia. Sometime after finishing High School, he went to Red Deer, Alberta, where he graduated in 1957 with a Bachelor of Theology from Canadian Nazarene College. At that time, he was designated as the pastor for the Church of the Nazarene in a village called Mantario, Saskatchewan. It was here that he met his wife to be, Esther Wiebe, and they were married in 1958.
In 1960, he was asked to take charge of the Nazarene Church in Moose Jaw Saskatchewan. Continuing to study became a burning desire for him and so he moved with his wife and two small daughters to Kansas City to attend the Nazarene Theological Seminary and graduated in 1965 with a Bachelor of Divinity Degree. While attending Seminary, he pastored a Community church in the country. From here, Alden and his family moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba to pastor Fort Gary Church of the Nazarene.
After about eight years, the Brantford Church of the Nazarene Board invited him to come to pastor their church. While there, he took graduate work in Theology at the University of Toronto. Once again, he felt the need to do further studies and applied to McGill University where he did his graduate work for the Ph.D. in Church History and was granted the degree in 1989.
He lived near the US border and so accepted the call to pastor several United Methodist churches in New York State. Canadian Nazarene College, which was located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, then invited him to be a full-time Professor. In 1995, the college moved to Calgary where he continued to be a professor until 1997.
In his retirement, he became an Adjunct professor at Rocky Mountain College as well as Alberta Bible College. He left this earth to his eternal reward, with much of his family around him.
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