A devastating 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck southeast Turkey and northern Syria Monday. The reported death toll is over 11,000 and climbing after thousands of buildings crumbled, burying civilians beneath the rubble. At least 78 massive aftershocks have already been reported, and more are expected in the coming days.

You can help! You can donate to the Episcopal Relief and Development Fund. Make a check out to All Saints this Sunday and put in the memo line "Earthquake or you can donate by clicking here." Any donation, no matter the amount, is a blessing.

Do you love to sew? Do you love to fellowship? Come join the All Saints Quilt Ministry this Saturday 9am to 11am. No experience is needed! A light breakfast will be served. Please join this amazing ministry this Saturday morning!

This Monday evening, February 13th, the Men of All Saints will meet in the Parish Hall, beginning at 6:30PM. Bring an item for grilling (filet, fish or fowl) and a beverage of your choosing, and come join in the conversation and in the fellowship. Side dishes are provided. Join the Men of All Saints this Monday evening in the Parish Hall!

The 2023 All Saints Seafood Fest and Oyster Roast, along with the Good Stuff Auction, has been set for Saturday evening, February 18th at 6:00pm! You can purchase tickets ($35) THIS SUNDAY by speaking with Rick Alexander or via email at rick@alexanderlawpractice.com or come by the church office, Monday-Thursday, 9am-3pm. The guys from MOAS will once again serve fried fish, shrimp, oysters, etouffee, shrimp-n-grits, low country boil, Menorcan clam chowder, and hotdogs, along with all the fixin's you can sink your teeth into and some sweets, too! We are often asked if checks are accepted, and actually, checks are PREFERRED. Volunteers are also very much needed to help make this a special night. If you are able to assist, please contact Rick Alexander at the email above.

It's also time to think about donations in the form of vacations at summer homes, beach condos, or day trips that All Saints communicants can donate, as well as "good stuff" for the "Good Stuff" auction. If there are nice items in your home you haven't used in a year, perhaps they need a new home! Please remember that we do not take clothes unless you have real minks or designer handbags, and please remember, no broken or "ready for the curb" items. Call Toastie Hardy with any questions or to speak about donating at 904-636-8646 (text: 904-234-6047), and call Rick Alexander for vacation/rental donations at 904-627-4950. And don't forget, YOUR GENEROSITY IS TAX DEDUCTIBLE!

All Saints will enter into the Lenten Season again with three Ash Wednesday services on Wednesday, February 22nd. The Ash Wednesday liturgy will include the Imposition of Ashes at 9:30am, and the Imposition of Ashes and Holy Eucharist at 12:10pm, and 6pm, with special music and hymns offered by the Parish Choir during the 6pm Ash Wednesday liturgy.

Following the Ash Wednesday service, Mother Teresa will begin her Lenten study series "The Crucified Life: Seven Words from the Cross" created by our very own bishop coadjutor elect, The Rev Charlie Holt. Available in the church office are the combined devotional book and the study guide for $25.00 if you are able. After Ash Wednesday, the Lenten soup series will be Wednesday evenings at 6:00pm in the Parish Hall. We are also in need of parishioners to sign up for hosting the soup dinner that will begin on March 1st. There will be no soup on Ash Wednesday as this is a day of fasting. The youth will be hosting the 1st but we are in need of other people or groups to host the rest of the Wednesday nights in Lent. A sign-up sheet will be in the Parish Hall!

Bring the whole family to our next Music Thru the Ages on March 6th, Monday, at 7pm, when the Berea College Bluegrass Ensemble performs as part of their 2023 Winter Tour. Visit www.berea.edu/music for more details. A reception will follow in the Parish Hall. Volunteers are needed! Contact Michael to help!

So John's 1st letter begins. Fellow clergy in the Diocese of Florida, I invite you to prayerfully share the upcoming Ministry Exploration Day information widely in your parishes, networks, and relational circles. We, as vessels of clay, are witnesses to the Word Made Flesh, the only hope in life and death for a world longing to know. I minister on a massive university campus and am finding more and more that people are searching for meaning, purpose, and hope in every facet of our world. But largely they are not coming to our churches to encounter the Love which their hearts desperately crave. Would you pray with me that the Lord of the harvest would raise up among us a passionate, faithful, dynamic, and diverse clergy class who will hold out the Word of Life to our fellow human beings? 

The event is Saturday, March 4 at Christ Church Ponte Vedra. COM will hold another one at Camp Weed in August. Surely each of us knows a handful of lay persons who are demonstrating leadership qualities, who love the Lord Jesus, and are open to the Spirit's leading in their lives! 

The All Saints Vestry is a vital, energetic body that is helping our congregation move forward. We need the benefit of YOUR constructive input and wisdom!

Please offer to constructively contribute and make a positive difference by submitting your name via email to mpina@asejax.com.

At a meeting on February 26 during the Christian Formation hour, 3 new members will be selected by a blind drawing from the names submitted to replace outgoing Vestry members, usually to serve a three-year term. Former Vestry members who have been out of office for at least one year are eligible to be considered again for a position on the Vestry.

In many times and places, daybreak has been a time of prayer. Jews prayed in their synagogues at sunrise as well as at other times each day. This Jewish pattern of prayer formed the basis of the Christian monastic Daily Office, with its prayers or “hours” at seven times in each day. Thomas Cranmer’s revision of the Daily Office for the first English Prayer Book (1549) reduced the number of services to two - one for morning (Matins) and one for evening (Evensong or vespers). In the Second English Prayer Book (1552), the morning service was given its present name, Morning Prayer.

All Saints would love for you to join us on Monday mornings at 8 AM via Zoom to pray the service of Morning Prayer from the Daily Office. What better way to start your week than a sweet reminder that your days belong to God and that you are never alone? Just open up your computer or smart phone, and click HERE to join. The meeting ID is 845 0325 3205 and the passcode to enter the Zoom meeting is 244071 Or just email Julia Suddath HERE for the Zoom invitation. You can also use Forward Movement's Daily Prayer resource HERE to see the liturgy and to read the assigned Bible readings for Morning Prayer.

Want to hear or listen again to one of Fr. Donavan's sermons from the past year? Did you miss a sermon from Mtr. Teresa? If so, ALL of our All Saints sermons are available online! Check them out here now, and subscribe to 'Sunday Sermons at All Saints' on your favorite Podcast app! Right on!