All Saints' Episcopal Church
"A church without walls"
Second Sunday after the Epiphany - 1/15/2017
Annual Parish Meeting

All Saints' Annual Parish Meeting will be held at  12:00 noon , between the  11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m.  worship services on  Sunday, January 22 .  

At the meeting we will elect four new Vestry members and delegates and alternates to the Diocesan Convention in February.   

Please make every effort to attend. 
UTO Grant Money is Available

The focus for UTO grants this year - This is the Jesus Movement! 

Here is the Application Submission Process. You need to complete the application along with a budget by February 17, 2017.

Need some helpful hints? 

Check out a sample budget.

Here is the 2017 Application form.


Please let us know what your ideas are for All Saints' are and we can help!
Theology Pub
Monday, January 16 at 6:00 p.m.

Our first meeting of Theology Pub for 2017 will be Monday, Jan. 16, at  6:00 p.m. at Boneheads Grill (1403 SE Moberly Lane).   Note the early 6:00 p.m. start since Boneheads is closing at 8:00 during the winter months.  We'll be focusing on A. J. Jacobs, The Year of Living Biblically, pages 205-279 (March, April, May). 

Since this is our next to last session on this book, we need to select our next book.  Wayne Stewart has suggested Tom Bissell's,  Apostle: Travels Among the Tombs of the Twelve  (2016), which is a well written historical study of Jesus' 12 disciples.  Information is online including a review by the New York Times.

Here are three other diverse possibilities with no preference:

If you have a preference but can't be at Mondays, meeting please email or call  Sandy Wylie, 918-916-0407.
Request for Prayers

 

Shout out to all the writers and pray-ers in the All Saints'/Todos Los Santos congregations! Every three years, the United Thank Offering (UTO) gathers original prayers from around the Episcopal Church to create a pocket book of prayers available throughout General Convention. For General Convention 2018, UTO is collecting original prayers in nine categories: 

  • gratitude, 
  • guidance, 
  • fear/danger, 
  • forgiveness, 
  • healing, 
  • loneliness, 
  • crisis/dealing with disappointment or crisis, 
  • love of God, and 
  • other. 

All are welcome to submit prayers for this collection!  Children, women, men, clergy, seminarians, or groups may write prayers for this edition of the booklet. Prayers can be submitted in any language and in any format - collect, litany, free form, or prose. Please submit all prayers by July 1, 2017 using this link:

https://dfms.formstack.com/forms/uto_book_of_prayers
Live Your Faith
January 15, 22, 29, &  February 5

The Great Courses:  The History of the Bible, The Making of the New Testament Canon

Join parishioner Ralph Kunz as he presents sessions 4-8 of this twelve part course.  Each class will begin with a video course and end with lively discussion!  No worries if you missed the first three sessions that were presented in November, you will be able step right in without feeling lost.  

The New Testament stands unchallenged, in the words of Professor Bart D. Ehrman, not only as the "'bestseller' of all time," but also as the most important "book-or collection of books-in the history of Western civilization."

Yet how many of us, Christian or otherwise, are as knowledgeable about the New Testament as we would like to be? Even many who consider themselves Christian find themselves asking some-perhaps even all-of the questions so often posed by those who are not.

What different kinds of books are in the New Testament? When, how, and why were they written? What do they teach? Who actually wrote them? How were they passed forward through history? And, perhaps most important of all, why and how did some books, and not others, come to be collected into what Christians came to consider the canon of scripture that would define their belief for all time?

In The History of the Bible: The Making of the New Testament Canon, Professor Ehrman offers a fast-moving yet thorough introduction to these and other key issues in the development of Christianity.

Drawing on the award-winning teaching skills and style that have made him one of our most popular lecturers-respectful yet provocative, scholarly without sacrificing wit-Professor Ehrman has crafted a course designed to deepen the understanding of both Christians and non-Christians alike.
Detour - Construction

Please approach church from NW 2nd St. while construction is underway on West Central.  A Water Dept. project is progressing thru the new year.  West Central Ave is closed to traffic starting at A St thru F St going in both directions.  Traffic will be detoured to NW 2nd St.  Thanks for your patience and understanding during this process. 
Readings, Lay Ministers and Hospitality for January 15

Readings
Isaiah 49:1-7
1 Corinthians 1:1-9
John 1:29-42
Psalm 40:1-12

Lay Ministers for Saturday
Chalice: Karen
Lector: Marj

Lay Ministers for Sunday
Chalice: 
Lector: 
Intercessor: 

Hospitality Guild Schedule
January 15 - St. Drogo
January 22 - Saints of Today
January 29 -- St. Bernard
February 5 - All Saints' Emerging (church-wide potluck)
February 12 - St. Francis
February 19 - St. Jude
Quick Links

Bishop's Letter
Regularly Scheduled Events

ECW (St. Tabitha's Guild) - 3rd Thursday monthly from September through May, 12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m. 

Feast of Grace Community Meal - Wednesdays, 5:30 - 6:30 p.m.

Food Pantry - Wednesdays, 2:00  3:30 p.m.

Theology Pub - every other Monday, 6:30 p.m.

Tri-Faith Book Club - 1st and 3rd Tuesday monthly, 6:00 p.m.

Vestry Meeting - 3rd Tuesday monthly, 6:30 p.m.
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