The next opportunity for Baptism is on the Feast of Pentecost, June 12, at the 9 and 11am Services. The Baptismal preparation class for this Baptism date is on Saturday, June 4 at 9am.

If you or your child would like to be baptized at All Saints', you'll need to plan on attending one of the pre-baptismal counseling sessions in advance of your baptism date. To sign up for a particular date, please contact Beau Surratt (beau@allsaintschicago.org) in the Parish Office. To find out more information about baptism, please contact one our clergy, either Bonnie Perry (bonnie@allsaintschicago.org) or Fran Holliday (fran@allsaintschicago.org) call the church office at (773) 561-0111.

• $5,500 for the salaries of Dr. Paul and the mid-wife at the Renk Town Clinic;
• $5,000 for tuition for students at Nile High School in Arua, Uganda;
• $3,000 for fencing of the garden that supports the restaurant in N. Geiger run by St. Peter Parish/St. Barnaba (companion parish with All Saints');
• $1,000 for bricks for the building of the new high school in Renk Town;
• and $4,689 for the support and feeding of displaced peoples returning home after the South voted for independence from the North in January (this was the youth group's idea!). 

Do we have time to reduce/reuse or recycle? Do we not have time?  Does it take more effort to recycle than just to throw it out?  When a recycling plan is started - will we use it? Can our collective actions lead to reducing the volume of "trash"?

Let's get together on June 5 between the 9 and 11 services to discuss about how we can make care for the environment more a part of our community life here at All Saints'. 

Katie Nolan 773.589.2157    ktnolan@sbcglobal.net 

If you're interested in helping with this ministry, please contact Nina Chinn at ninachinn@comcast.net or 773-561-2407 and she can give you all the information you need to get started.

The Right Reverend Jeffrey D. Lee, Twelfth Bishop of the Diocese of Chicago

will ordain

Karen Alicia King

Katherine C. Spelman

Lora Walsh

To the Sacred Order of Deacons in Christ's One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church

Saturday, June 4, 2011 at eleven o ̉clock in the morning

St. James Cathedral, Wabash at Huron, Chicago, Illinois

Your prayers and presence are requested.

Reception to follow ∞ Festival colors are white and gold.

Spring is the perfect time to try singing with the choir. With about 7 weeks left in the choir season, you can get a little taste of the fun you can have.  Our 9 o'clock choir rehearses at 8am and sings for the 9am service each Sunday and our 11 o'clock choir rehearses on Wednesday evenings from 7:30-9pm (with a 10:15am warmup on Sunday morning) and sings for the 11am service each Sunday. 

Additionally, the All Saints' All Ages Choir sings once a month at 9:00 service and rehearses from 9:30 to 10:15 a.m. on the Saturday before, and at 8:30 a.m. in the Parish Hall on Sundays the group is singing. The All Ages Choir is open to children ages 5 and up, their parents or other accompanying adults, unaccompanied young people ages 12 and up and anyone who likes the idea of a one-month-at-a-time commitment. The 9:00 service Adult Choir joins with the All Ages Choir when they sing. The next All Ages choir rehearsal will be on Saturday, May 21, singing on Youth Sunday, May 22. 

Finally, on Pentecost, June 12, the last regular choir Sunday for the season, we'll have a combined choirs Sunday. At the 9am service, the All Ages choir, 9 o'clock choir and 11 o'clock choir will sing, and at the 11am service, the 9 o'clock and 11 o'clock choirs will join together. If you're looking for a one-time opportunity to try out singing, June 12 is the day. 

For more information about any of these opportunities, give Beau Surratt a call at 773-561-0111 or send him an email at beau@allsaintschicago.org.

Pat Lester, John Ford, Jerry LaTuillippe, Ms. Camille, Lynne Fischer, Carmen Julian, Michael Cullen, Violet, and the Repchic family, Andrew Mauro, Ms. Holliday, William J. Goins, and his sisters Jean, Becky, and Glada, Debbie and Carl, Dominic Lester, Rev. Joan McPherson, Rhys Nicholas Burke, Mickey Grossman, Bob Donovan, Stan Strickland, Jeanne Knepper & Marcia Hauer, Rae and  Melanie, Nikki Seger, Gene Boese, John Wojciechowski, Art Mannon, Julie Ann Villa, Debbie Smart, Carolyn Cooney, Charles Simokaitis, Sr., Connie Wilson, Margaret McHugh, Tom Pope, Shawn, Susan and Finneus Wicks, Marissa Heirich, Cynthia Reynolds, Sean Wicks and his son John Massan, Amy Orr, Bonnie Owens, Donald, James and Randy, Michael Krause, Lori T., Myra, Larry, Joseph Libretti, Jr., Ed Stasik, Anna Elizabeth Stanley, Judy, Antonio, Kevin Hunt, Jesse Torrence, Joan Zaradich, Dana Zaradich, Lisa Zaradich, Arnold Markley, Aluma Alex, Joyce Mauro, Richard Ruby

5/22-      Michael Black, Margaret Ferguson

5/23-      Richard Bredsen

5/24-      Ann McKenzie 

5/26-      Jori Reigle

5/27-      Michael Mattson

5/28-      Molly Hanly

5/29-      Jennifer Snow

Annversaries

5/22-      Katie Nolan & Therese Stasik

             Tom Edstrom and Jennifer Reft

5/23-      Rob Koehler and Sheri Reda

5/26-      Frank Basso and John Sattelmaier

We remember Jon Ruby, father of Brad Ruby, who died on Tuesday.

We remember all of the people killed in Southern Sudan this week.