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All Saints' Episcopal Church
9601 Frankford Avenue Philadelphia, PA 19114
215.637.8787
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So many thanks you's! So many thank you's to everyone who had a hand in
making our Easter celebrations beautiful and meaningful: thank you to
our Altar Guild, to our Layreaders and Chalice Administrators, to our
LEM's, to our Acolytes and Ushers, to our Choir and Organist, to the 288
of you who joined us for Easter Day services. And to Linda Mullen for
wading through the task of creating all of the leaflets from Palm Sunday
through Easter Day! Thank you all. God Bless. Steve
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Easter Balladeers in the Belfry
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Jessica
McGraw and Mark Miskofsky
Congratulations and God Bless
to Jessica and Mark who will celebrate their marriage at All Saints' on
Saturday May 1st at 3:30 pm.
Sunday eight o'clock worshipers will recognize Jessica and Mark as among
our newest parishioners. Welcome, Jessica and Mark! We celebrate with
you on your wedding day. How pleased we are to welcome you to All
Saint's Church.
Patrick Ryan and Barbara McGeehan
Congratulations and God Bless to Patrick and
Barb who will celebrate their marriage at All
Saints' on Saturday May 29th at 1:00 pm. If you attended
our first of the Tuesday evening Lenten series you will recognize Pat
& Barb as two of our speakers that evening. Welcome to All Saints',
Pat and Barb! We are so pleased to have you with us.
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EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY SERVICES SUNDAY
May 2nd
Each
year the Diocese of Pennsylvania asks every parish to acknowledge and
support the ministry of Episcopal Community Services. Founded in 1870,
ECS is the oldest social services agency operating in Philadelphia. All
Saints' will welcome a guest speaker from ECS at the Sunday 8:00 &
10:00 Holy Eucharists on May 2nd. Brochures and special offering
envelopes will be provided for all services including the 5:30 Saturday
Holy Eucharist. Please join us to learn about ECS. Take home a brochure
and read the heart-warming 'success' stories from people whose lives
have benefited from ECS's help. And then make a contribution using the
envelope provided. Why? First, because of the agency's record of
success. Second, because Philadelphia has the highest rate of poverty
among the nation's 10 largest cities. In other words, there is more for
ECS and many other organizations to do. Thank you and God Bless. |
Northeast
Committee on Homelessness
and
All Saints' Volunteers
All Saints' held its first
meeting to coordinate parish volunteers for St. Mark's meal program
operating under the auspices of Northeast Committee on Homelessness.
Joining several of our parishioners at the April 6th meeting were women
representing Ladies' Ancient Order of Hibernians! How pleased we were to
welcome them to this outreach endeavor. A menu sufficient to feed 100
people was planned for All Saints' preparation of the meal scheduled for
Saturday June 5th at St. Mark's. Thanks to our parishioners who met
together for our organizational meeting: Myrna Weinstein, Nora Perry,
Deane Gordon, Nancy Umfer, Nancy Foster, Adge Martin, Alan Martin,
Michele Haberle, Joan Kelly, Dolores Ryan, and Rita Smith. We're off and
running!
Apologies for an
omission: When All Saints' assisted with the Pennypack Deanery Lenten
meal at St. Mark's two of our parishioners were unintentionally omitted
from the acknowledgment. Our apologies to Deane and Ruth Gordon who were present with
shirtsleeves rolled up.
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Palm
Sunday Cantata
The combined choirs of All Saints'
Episcopal Church and St. John's Lutheran Church in Mayfair shown here
performing "Come Touch the Robe" on Palm Sunday afternoon at All Saints'
Church. The choirs performed to a full church. The reviews? "They were
splendid!" Thank you to our Organist/Choir Director, Dr. Joe Kulkosky for the idea and
organization, to Eleanore Hersch
& Joan Kelly for publicity
and ticket sales, to Nancy Edwards
for help with musical direction, to Brian
Moeller for copying and distributing rehearsal CDs, to Cary Rush for the
photos. And thanks
so much to both choirs for
making this a wonderful performance!
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Our Annual Women and Men, Girls and
Boys
Corporate Communion & Breakfast Save the date! Saturday May 8th
for our corporate communion and breakfast. It all begins at 9:00 am.
Holy Eucharist celebrated by the Rev. Leslie Evans, breakfast served by
the Women and Men of All Saints', and Leslie again as our speaker!
Tickets: $3 for girls and boys under 12 and $5 for everybody else!
Purchase deadline is May 2nd. Questions or RSVP's? Email
starfollower@verizon.net or call 215-637-8787. Hope to see you there.
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United
Thank Offering (UTO) focuses on, "A time to say daily prayers for God's
blessings and give a tangible offering of thanks." On Saturday evening May 15th and Sunday morning May 16th
our worship leaflets will include a blue UTO offering envelope.
"United
Thank Offering supports projects that address poverty of women
and children, make a significant impact, demonstrate new and innovative
work, and are a part of a planned diocesan/provincial strategy."
We
hope you will return a donation in a blue envelope to the offering
plate on the 15th/16th and help UTO in its world-wide pastoral and
outreach ministry. Thank you!
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Health & Well-Being Notes
Borden
Hoffman is home and recovering - he's back driving again -
following a respiratory illness; George
Hall is on the road again following stint surgery and wound
healing; long-time parishioner Trudy
Rooney is recovering from a recent heart attack; Mike Ryan is home from Angela Jane
Rehab; Ann Terry remains at
River's Edge Rehab recovering from her fall. Our prayers are said and
our hopes held high for these friends of ours.
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Baptisms of Dylan DeLia & Jordyn
Lee
Baptisms coming in May
May 15th at 5:30 - Kaylee Golden,
daughter of Robert & Jessica Golden
May 16th at 10:00 - Rocco
Gregory, son of Joseph Gregory & April Susko; and Michael Lyons, son of Michael &
Melissa Lyons.
May 23rd at 8:00-
Francesca Welty, daughter of
Jeff & Linda Welty.
May 23rd
at 10:00- Kyle Canamucio,
son of Matt & Colleen Canamucio; and Brady Smith, son of John & Laurie Smith.
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Interim Rector and Hot Air
Steve and Irene will be in San Francisco and
San Diego May 10th through the 18th spending time with their sons. The
'hot air' thing? Son Matt, in San Diego, gave his dad a glider ride for
Christmas and he's going out to collect. Son Steve, in San Francisco,
gave his dad cool camera equipment. If dad can take his hand off the
flight controls long enough he should be able to get some great photos
in the thermal updraft! In the mean time, Leslie Evans will cover all
services on the weekend of May 15-16. Thank you, Leslie! Steve will be
back in the church office on Wednesday May 19th in time for the 9:30
Holy Eucharist.
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Our
Annual Church Picnic!Sunday
June 13th
Immediately
following the 10:00 am Holy Eucharist on June 13th meet us out in the churchyard!
Bring your own lawn chair, find a sunny or shady spot and enjoy the day.
Catering will be provided by Sweet Lucy's BBQ. Games for young and,
well, older-than-young. Softball game, egg toss, peanut
scramble, a pinata and lots more! See you there.
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We're
going to the Ballgame!
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May Birthdays
5-01 Thomas Hall, Ruth Sarkis, Jessica Schell
5-02 Michelle Glessner, Edward Smith
5-03 Vera Hilt, Doreen Young
5-04 Michael Thornton
5-06 Matthew Lupoli
5-07 Vivien Emberger
5-09 Sam Pirrone, Carol Rifkin, Shawn Smith, Jr.
5-10 Ryan Turner
5/12 Rosalie Rush
5/15 Nancy Ryan, Georgiann Teater
5-18 Bernice Dixey, Gladys Dixie
5-19 Rob Haberle, Matthew Heller
5-20 Elizabeth Adams
5-21 Emmett Davis, Jr., Frank Humphries, Earl Kligge, Jr.
5-22 Doris DeRitis, Dorothy Thornton
5-23 David VanHorn
5-24 Robert Emberger
5-26 Amanda Taylor-Martin, Walter Woern
5-27 Sabrina Policino, June Tittelmayer
5-28 Amy Rodgers
5-29 Jennifer Rassier
5-30 William Schoen
5-31 Virginia Anderson, Robert Haberle
May Anniversaries
5-02 Vivien & John Emberger, their 46th
5-03 Joan & Jeff Hearn, their 30th
5-08 Kathleen & Paul Sullivan, their 17th
5-10 Colleen & Matthew Canamucio, their 2nd
5-15 Cynthia & Matthew Schell, their 17th
5-17 Mr. & Mrs. Kohn, their 25th
5-21 Jeanette & Gary Fluck, their 22nd
5-23 Elizabeth & William Chamberlin, their 35th
5-24 Mr. Mrs. Stephen Wiercinski, their 68th
5-25 Carolyn & Jason Devlin, their 2nd
5-25 Mr. & Mrs. Martin, their 9th
5-26 Mr. & Mrs. Levenbach, their 25th
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Ongoing Parish Events
Healing &
Holy Eucharist - Every Wednesday, 9:30 am
Review of the Scriptures- Every
Wednesday, 10:30 am
ECW - Every 2nd Wednesday, 11:30 am
Young at Heart- 1st and 3rd
Thursdays, 12:00 pm
Quilters-1st
and 3rd Tuesdays, 9:30 am
Breakfast
Club - Every 2nd Saturday, 9 am
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