Indoor Worship and Holy Communion

Holy Communion will be available at both the 8:00 am and 10:00 service.
Seating is available on a first come first serve basis.

If you attend in-person, please note:
Masks are required indoors - please wear the mask over your mouth and nose. 
The service will be about 45 minutes.
After the service, feel free to stick around outside and welcome those you have not seen in a while.  

Drive-in Church - drive up, tune your radio to 107.5 FM
Walk-up Church - bring a chair/bike/beach blanket, stay six feet from your neighbor in our garden and grassy area, and listen to the service live.
Live-stream - go to AllAngelsLBK.org, click on the listen live button, and you will be routed to our YouTube channel. 
Zoom - go to https://zoom.us/j/5955701807 and watch and listen live. Be sure to stick around after the service for our coffee hour chat-with-your-neighbor time. 

All Angels' 10 am service will begin with the lighting of the altar candles. If you are participating at home, you are invited to light a candle with us to create a sacred space of worship at home. 

The bulletin can be found on the All Angels Website: AllAngelsLBK.org
or at the following link: Bulletin for Sunday, October 25
Flower Guild News

Announcing the return of live flowers for the Christmas season. Red poinsettia and live Christmas flowers will come again to All Angels.
As you know we had to suspend flower memorials before Easter, but for the Christmas holiday we will once again be asking you for your special offering which will be published as a special insert in the bulletin.
You will be receiving an email or letter shortly with an explanation about how you can give for flowers, music, or a special Christmas offering and to whom you wish to remember or give thanks. Look for a special edition of the Tidings as well. These special times require special ways to communicate as in person is now not always possible. So by letter, email, or electronically look for information so we can celebrate Christmas through flowers and music.
Veteran's Day Event

The Rotary of LBK is hosting a pandemic- sensitive “drive-by” veteran recognition on Veteran’s Day, November 11, at 1100 in front of Temple Beth Israel. And, the Rotary is conducting a fundraising campaign in support of these three local non-profits who help veterans: Turning Points Yellow Ribbon Project, the Fisher House Foundation, and SRQ Vets. There is a matching gift up to $10,000. To join the “Support those who Served” campaign visit the Rotary’s website, www.longboatkeyrotary.org, or send a check to Rotary LBK Charitable Fund, P.O. Box 8351, Longboat Key, FL 34228.  
Online Giving
All Angels now has an electronic offertory plate! You can find the online giving link on our All Angels website by clicking the link below:
Extra-Curricular Article

There are plenty of good articles that never see the light of day in our discussion groups. Here is one of them that caught my eye but didn't make it to the discussion table. It is from the Wall Street Journal about two neighbors with different political views that continue to be friends and are able to discuss politics. 
Discussion Group Readings

Hello! Thanks for an interesting week of discussions about altruism and effectiveness. Part of what makes people happy is giving and helping others. But, what about the other side - buying things to make ourselves feel happy. The article for this week says that we can't buy things to make us happy, nor can we elect someone to make us happy, nor can we create a governmental or free market society that will then create happiness. Nope. You'll have to read it to find out where happiness is. One line, however, that I really appreciated is this: 
"The world encourages us to love things and use people. But that’s backwards. Put this on your fridge and try to live by it: 
Love people; use things."

May God bless you and everyone that you love,
- Dave

Here is the website address for the discussion group: 
Book Study

On Wednesdays at 10 am, we will be studying the book

The weekly class will be available on Zoom:

The video of the fifth class can be found below:
Centering Prayer
Centering Prayer invites you to pray with them, every day,
at 8 am, wherever you are. When you enter into prayer at 8 am (Eastern), you will know that others are praying at the same time. 
Prayers for our People

Comfort and visit all who are sick and in need of your care, especially: Downs IV, Holden, Nikolai, Jean and Brian. Bring healing to all who are infected with the Corona Virus, especially Caitlin. Grant healing and recovery for all who have gone through surgery especially Jack, Brandon and Jim. Give peace and strength for those going through cancer treatments, especially John, Victoria, Andres, Ginny, Alex and Colleen. Visit and comfort all who are under the care of skilled nursing, especially Bob, Ruth, Timothy, Don, Barbara and Mike. Be near to all who are in hospice care.

On our prayer list, we pray for Jean Rushton as she is currently in Sarasota Memorial Hospital due to her heart. Please pray for the Holy Spirit to be with her and her husband Brian. 
Please pray for Jack, a member of Daphne Walker's, and her daughter Christina's, extended family as he is going through surgery for cancer. 
Please pray for Brandon, a member of Fan Oleson's extended family, for a blood clot in his heart. 
Gallery Artist

The artist for October is Linda Loen. Please stop by and enjoy the work of this talented artist.  

All checks should be written to "All Angels by the Sea."

All previous services, discussion group readings and Bible study classes may be found on our website:
Reflection
A Stole and a Hard Hat

I used to be an audio and video sales manager for a home electronics retail company that started with two stores and grew to more than 40 (before they were bought by BestBuy). I was a part of the team that opened our 7th location, it was the flagship store in a highly coveted retail area just south of Seattle. While the store was under construction, it was required that we wear hard hats.

The morning of our grand opening, our store manager held a meeting with the entire 80-person staff. He walked into the meeting wearing his hard hat. He said, “Before most of you got here, the leadership team had to wear these helmets to protect our heads from falling objects; it’s like we expected something to fall. Now that we have this brand new, shiny retail store, it would be a surprise if something fell. Although we are structurally sound, I want you to wear your hard hats, not on your heads but in your mind. I want you to be ready, and to expect, something to break or fail. I want you to expect that something will go wrong so that we can quickly come up with a work-around. This is my fifth new store and I can tell you from experience something always, always goes wrong.” Sure enough, the following week, on a very busy Saturday afternoon, we lost power to the entire point-of-sale system. We quickly pulled out the paper forms; the ones we used to say, “Can I write this up for you?”; and got back to work.

When you look at All Angels, you wouldn’t expect it to be a hard hat area; but it is. Starting the Sunday after Easter, the complexity of delivering our Sunday morning worship service has increased 5-fold. We now publish three weekly bulletins – one in print and two on-line bulletins, regular and large print. We went from having one way to worship – in person, to having these five ways to worship: drive up church on the radio, walk up church in the garden area, live-streamed church on YouTube, Zoom-in’ church, and in person. This means we should be wearing hard hats in our mind every Sunday because something might go wrong. The last two Sundays in a row, our audio cable got kicked which disabled Zoom, the outdoor speakers, and the radio. The last time, however, we got it back up and running within a minute because we were ready and expecting something not to work. In the 21st century Church, it’s like Jesus is saying, “Pick up your cross, put on your hard hat, and follow me.” 

-Fr. Dave