For more information, contact Nancy Lischer at buildingsandgrounds@allsaintschicago.org

Merci and thank you All Saints' for your ongoing support to help rebuild New Orleans and the Gulf Coastal wetlands.  Here are acknowledgements from Episcopal Community Services and Bayou Grace for our support for their work and news about our 10th rebuild trip. 

Episcopal Community Services of Louisiana (ECSLA)

Please accept our gratitude for your recent generous gift totaling $6,000 for the Rebuild Program. You have been such faithful and enthusiastic partners in this ministry, and integral to its ability to serve hundreds of vulnerable residents of our area. More than anything, your continued expressions of solidarity inspire and motivate us!  We are looking forward to seeing you in October.  We appreciate your generosity and kindness in helping us turn devastation into God's beloved community. 

ln gratitude, 

Nell Bolton, Executive Director

Bayou Grace

Thank you for the generous contribution of $4000.  Your generosity helps to sustain our programs that create partnerships with residents of Bayous Pointe aux Chenes, Terrebonne, Petit Cailou, Grand Cailou and Dularge in Terrebonne Parish and concerned individuals from across the country to address Louisiana's most critical issues:  the effects of unnatural coastal erosion and the imperative for holistic restoration and protection.  It was a privilege and pleasure to be a small part of planning for GS3.  

Warmest regards, 

Rebecca Templeton, Executive Director

Rebuild Trip September 30-October 8, 2011

We will meet on July 20th at 7:00 pm in the Parish Hall to make plans for our 10th rebuild trip. Please contact Joey Sylvester or Rob Book at neworleans@allsaintschicago.org if you are interested.  

A lot has been happening at Santa María Virgen, Xalapa, and we need to bring you up-to-date.

Padre César, who visited All Saints' last year has left Santa María, and Padre Bayron Chanchavac has taken his place. Padre Byron is a Roman Catholic priest, who is being received into the Anglican Church on August 14 and will be ordained an Anglican priest in about six months.  Padre Byron is from southern Mexico and is of indigenous heritage.  We have heard that Padre Bayron is a fine person, who is working hard to grow and develop the church in Xalapa.

We are going to Mexico on vacation in the middle of July and will attend Padre Bayron's reception service on August 14.  We also want work to develop new and stronger ties to the lay people of Santa María Virgen while we are there....

Read more here.

Growing Relationship with Cristo Rey, Chicago

For about a year now, several of us have been working to develop a relationship with the people of Iglesia Cristo Rey, a Hispanic Episcopal congregation at 5101 W. Devon.  Some of us have visited Cristo Rey for a Sunday service (11:00) and have attended various special events - they really know how to have fun!  Their Sunday Eucharist is bilingual, and we have been warmly welcomed.  In addition, Karen has begun teaching a class for members who want to learn or improve their English...

Read more here.

For more information about our ministries with Cristo Rey and Santa María Virgen, contact Dave and Karen Howe at mexico@allsaintschicago.org.

The Rev. C.J. Hawking

The next meeting of the Justice Circle will

be Monday, July 11th at 7:00pm in the area outside Bonnie and Beau's office. The Rev. CJ Hawking, Executive Director of ARISE

Chicago, will be with us to discuss how we can stand with workers experiencing wage theft in Chicago Check out their website at http://arisechicago.org/. We will also be talking about the Sudan, Labor Day, the LGBT Immigration Coalition, and whatever other actions and issues you bring. Please join us! For more information, contact Jack at jack@allsaintschicago.org.

Looking for an evening of gossip and art?  ECW is off to the Art Institute on Thursday July 21, for a guided tour of collection highlights given by parishioner Lydia Carr.  Lydia has years of museum experience, a fabulously decorative collection of advanced degrees, AND she's funny.  When she tells you the hot goss about Van Gogh or Saint Joan, you know it's 110% reliable.  We will meet at the Art Institute at 5:45, tour until 7-ish, and then repair to a local hostelry for dinner.  RSVP by Monday July 18 to Elizabeth Shapiro at care@allsaintschicago.org.

Important Note: If you have an AI membership card, you can bring in up to 4 guests free - so please let the ECW organizers know if that's the case when you sign up, and hopefully we'll all get in for nothing! 

A very special thank you to Liz Embler, our Julian Intern who just completed her first year as the intern for Ravenswood Community Services.  Liz serves as our Volunteer Coordinator and has done

a remarkable job.  We are very happy that she will return for another year with RCS beginning in mid- August.   Currently she has returned home to Knoxville Tennessee for a well deserved break. Liz lived in community with 8 other Julian Interns who

5 of whom will also be returning to Chicago for another year working with Episcopal Charities Agencies.

THE WHITE HOUSE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

June 22, 2011

Statement from the President on Sudan

On Monday, the Government of Sudan and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) signed an agreement in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to reduce tensions in Abyei and allow UN peacekeepers from Ethiopia into the region.   I commend the parties for taking this step forward toward peace, and I urge them now to build on that progress and agree to an immediate cease fire in Southern Kordofan.  Under the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, both parties committed to resolve their differences peacefully, and both parties have a responsibility to end the current violence and allow immediate humanitarian access to desperate people who have been driven from their homes and are now cut off from outside help.

The situation in Southern Kordofan is dire, with deeply disturbing reports of attacks based on ethnicity.  The United States condemns all acts of violence, in particular the Sudanese Armed Forces aerial bombardment  of civilians and harassment and intimidation of UN peacekeepers.  With a ceasefire in Southern Kordofan, alongside the agreement to deploy peacekeepers to Abyei, we can get the peace process back on track.  But without these actions, the roadmap for better relations with the Government of Sudan cannot be carried forward, which will only deepen Sudan's isolation in the international community. Without a cease-fire and political negotiations, the people of Southern Kordofan cannot enjoy the right to have their political grievances addressed. The negotiations now under way in Addis Ababa demand the urgent commitment from both sides to peace and to the agreement for immediate help to those civilians caught up in this conflict.

Pat Lester, John Ford, Jerry LaTuillippe, Ms. Camille, Lynne Fischer, 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, 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, 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., Anna

Elizabeth Stanley, Judy, Antonio, Jesse Torrence, Joan Zaradich, Dana Zaradich, Lisa Zaradich, Aluma Alex, Joyce Mauro, Richard Ruby, Nina Davis, Brenda Richardson, Chris, Ron, Helen LoRusso, Stephen Walk, Ann Robson Walk, Brian Meyer, Meredith's Brother, Carol Smith, Randy Davis, Pat Ford, Clyde Propst, 

Suzanne, Madeline, Andrew and Owen

Birthdays

7/12-      Amy Healey 

7/13-      Elizabeth Arenas 

7/14-      Annie Brady, Elijah Libretti, Martha Palmentera-Reid, Susan Palmentera-Reid 

7/15-      Jim Hanna 

7/16-      Carly Grumet, Beth Lee, Erica Olson

Anniversaries

7/12-      Andy and Emma Zone

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