Children’s Church Begins September 18

September 15, 2011

Children’s Church will resume this coming Sunday, Sept 18th at the 11:15 service.
The kids will start off in the main chapel with their parents and then depart for Children’s Church directly after the Children’s sermon (except for Family Sunday on the 1st Sunday of each month).

Please be sure to fill out a new Registration Form for your child(ren) next Sunday.
What is your area of skill/interest–crafts, music, drama? We are looking for teens and adults who would be interested in helping as teacher’s aides on and off throughout the year–please let us know if you would like to us join in this rewarding ministry!

Important Change: Children’s Church will now be limited to children ages 4 yrs through 3rd grade*. All older children will join their parents in worship.
Important Note: this change in age groups will NOT affect Sunday School; which will continue be at 10:30 and will available for ALL groups as follows:

Grades/Ages, Class Location, Teacher:

PreK (ages 4-6), back Sunday School building first classroom, Miss Robyn

Grade School (ages 7-12), back Sunday School building  second classroom, Miss Melanie

Junior/High School (ages 13-18), Elisha House, TBA

Adults, Ballard Hall, Alternating

*For questions/details regarding Children’s Church age groups/special needs, please see Mrs Christie Harper or Miss Robyn Tate or email sundayschool@allsaintsanglican.net.

“Train up a child in the way they should go: and when they are old, they will not depart from it.” – Prov 22:6 (KJV)

All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name

September 15, 2011

Liturgy Lesson for the Twelfth Sunday after Trinity: Love and Serve Him.

September 12, 2011

Our entrance to the parish is called the “narthex,” derived from a Greek word for “fennel”—a hollow-stalked herb, a word also meaning “small case,” but literally referring to its function as the “north exit.” Through its culinary roots, this symbolizes the movement of the Gospel’s flavor—via God’s people who Jesus called “the Salt of the Earth”—to the heathen north in ancient times. This aromatic and medicinal herb name derivation speaks to our own mission of entering and leaving God’s house in the “aroma of Christ,” as St. Paul wrote (by the Holy Ghost) in 2 Corinthians 2:15 (NKJV) “For we are to God the fragrance of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing.” Like the first century Gospel migration, we pass through Christ’s fragrance to worship Him, then again as we leave, energized to carry His Gospel out the north exit—to the World! All Saints’ narthex is the entry hall or lobby connecting the nave (seating area), and the cloister (breezeway) and entered by passing through two red doors, which signify our passing through the Blood of Christ to enter the Kingdom. What a wonderful devotion as enter, to thank our wonderful Lord for His cleansing Blood, then ask Him to fill and surround with His own fragrance as we enter His courts, afterwards taking that same Heavenly aroma forth to love and serve Him!!

Faith

September 12, 2011

Believers, living by faith, can rest confidently that God’s promises will be fulfilled—that their fulfillment is in fact a reality in their lives before it becomes manifest to the believer’s senses. ~ Halley’s Bible Handbook

All Saints Food Pantry Outreach

September 7, 2011

See what All Saints is doing in our Food Pantry ministry thanks to the grace of God, Daily Bread Ministries, and dedicated volunteers. To become a part of this outreach to help those in need through food for the body and food for the spirit, contact Bill Wimp, outreach@allsaintsanglican.net.

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God Works through the Gift of a Book

September 6, 2011

Father Chip sent the book The Sword of the Spirit, The Word of God to Senior Pastor Thomas Oscar, Co-Founder of the New Life Gospel Fellowship in Faisalabad, Pakistan.

Pastor Oscar wrote to Father Chip:

I really thank you in God for this book. For me this is not just a good book but this is a great blessing for me, my family and my Christian community where I am performing my pastoral activities. I have started reading the book and read the passages quoted in the book. I keep the Holy Bible with me to read same passages in the Bible too. I meditate on the passages. I found this book very useful to make life holy, for healing and fight with the demons, devil and all its powers. This is a unique book it covers almost all aspects of our spiritual life.

My loving Father as I am reading the Book I got a revelation from God to translate this book into my local language (Urdu) and distribute in my local community here so that my local community will be benefited from it. First I will read it and meditate on it deeply and ask help from God. Then I will start translate it. I am sure this book will be very much fruitful for the people who can not read English they will get this book in their local language.

How awesome that God takes the simple gift of a book and uses it to reach a whole community of Christians in a non-Christian nation more than eight thousand miles away.

Liturgy Lesson for the Eleventh Sunday after Trinity; God who triumphs!

September 4, 2011

Anglican Christian practice includes seven Sacraments, to build us up and empower our Christian Faith. Among these, Holy Unction, in Scripture in St. James 5:13-16 and St. Mark 6:13, is specifically intended to focus God’s healing power on our illnesses and infirmities. The prayer book permits this to be done at the minister’s discretion and calls on parishioners to give him notice that someone is sick. Accomplished in obedience to divine command as found in St. James 5:14-15, it’s also a Christian duty as described in St. Matthew 25:34-36. Plainly, any Christian has the authority to lay hands on the sick and expect their recovery, but application of the Unction (anointing) for the sick is specifically tasked to the presbyters (priests) of the Church, according to St. James. This begs the question, then, does everyone we anoint become well on the spot, by God’s power? Clearly not. God, after all, is God and He chooses where and when to heal. However, we are to be faithful to what Scripture tasks us—if there are sick among us, we are to call for the priests of the Church to anoint and pray for the sick. Scripture promises us, then, the prayer of the faithful saves the sick, and the Lord raises them up. How God responds is up to Him. However, since God is sovereign and Scripture tells us to pray for the sick and they will recover, then, there’s no reason not to expect God to heal miraculously by Holy Unction or simply laying on of hands in prayer. We serve a caring, sovereign God who triumphs over our problems!

 

Fall Festival October 29th

September 2, 2011

Although the weather may not feel like fall, All Saints’ annual Fall Festival will be here soon. The festival will take place on Saturday, October 29, 10 AM – 5 PM.

The day will be filled with fun, food, and fellowship.

  • Listen to some great music by talented artists at the band festival beginning at 10 AM. Father Chip has assembled an impressive array of musical talent from across the city to entertain festival goers.
  • Eat, eat, eat. As always, there will be plenty of delicious food.
  • Shop for great bargains at the garage sale—you’re bound to find treasures in what someone else considered trash.
  • Kids will enjoy face painting, a moon bounce, and other fun children’s activities.
  • Vendors will offer an enticing variety of arts and crafts, books, and other things you can’t live without.
  • Fellowship as you spend a delightful day on the grounds with the All Saints family.

For the first time, we will be offering sponsorships for any of the activities. The names of sponsors will be listed on the activities they sponsor. You can choose one of three levels of sponsorship:

  • Silver level: $25.00
  • Gold level: $75.00
  • Platinum level: $150.00

The Fall Festival is only a few weeks away, so start getting ready.

  • If you have any artistic ability, volunteer to do face painting.
  • If you or someone you know does arts or crafts or has something to sell, sign up for a vendor booth (or spread the word). The cost of a booth/table is only $25.00.
  • Do a little fall housecleaning and gather items to donate for the garage sale.
  • Volunteer to help—the festival is a huge endeavor, and it will take a lot of folks participating to make it a success.

To volunteer or for more information, contact Carter Dreesman or Barry Kowald at events@allsaintsanglican.net.

See photos of last year’s Fall Festival.

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