Hunger Rock 5 and More News from All Saints'

All Saints' Episcopal Church

News for the Week of October 23, 2011

Hunger Rock 5: Patty Elvis in the house!
Saturday, October 22, 7-11:30pm

Inspired by comedian Andy Kaufman, Patty started impersonating Elvis many years ago. The Patty Elvis show incorporates Elvis, comedy and hits from various artists of the 70's. The audience is captured by her sound-alike Elvis voice, stage presence and quick wit. Make no mistake, Patty Elvis is not just a female Elvis impersonator but a professional entertainer who borrows from Elvis' legend.

This Saturday night, October 22
7 p.m. - 11:30 p.m.
All Saints' Parish Hall
1757 W. Wilson Avenue, Chicago

Tickets:    $25 Hunger Rock 5 (and HR5 After-Party)
                 $10 HR5 (After-Party Only)

7 p.m.        Early evening features specialty cocktails, savory appetizers, celebrity photo ops, Patty Elvis and a few other All Saints'-style surprises. You won't want to miss the carefully-curated silent auction (spoiler alert: auction items include a mixologist class for eight, dinner hosted by Captain O'Keefe and his team of firefighters in the station house at Foster and Western, ever-gorgeous jewelry by Patricia Locke, and lots more fabulous goodies). Your $25 ticket also puts you on the hipster-heavy A-list and past the line for the HR5 after-party and DJ requests. Come celebrate and support RCS.

Purchase your $25 Hunger Rock 5 ticket here.

9 p.m. Just want to dance 'til you drop? You got it: the HR5 after-party and DJ dance. There'll still be plenty of celebrity photo ops and fun for the fashionably late. Come celebrate and support RCS.

Purchase your $10 HR5 After-Party ticket here.

Last year RCS volunteers hosted more than 18,000 food pantry visits and served almost 6,500 meals to hungry people in our community, and the need is growing. HUNGER ROCK! helps raise funds to support RCS' local hunger relief programs. Join us for the fun, and help feed your hungry neighbors.

For more information about Hunger Rock 5 call RCS at 773-769-0282 or email at

info@ravenswoodcommunityservices.org

Learn more about Bonnie's trip to South Africa
Thursday, October 27 at 7:30

Bonnie and her friend and colleague, Mote Momgoba from Tanzania.

Below is Bonnie's description of the conference that she, Bishop Lee and Ruth Frey are attending in South Africa. All are invited to join them on October 27 as they share their thoughts and experiences on their time in South Africa.

The Chicago Consultation: the group of international theologians and church leaders that Ruth Meyers and I founded in 2006 to move forward inclusion of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people in the Anglican Communion will be partnering with the the Ujamaa Centre of the University of KwaZulu-Natal to convene a gathering of Anglicans who are interested in the theology of human sexuality and justice. I'm delighted to be one of the North American representatives who will be presenting in the course of the consultation. In addition, one our parishioners, Ruth Frey, will be attending along with our bishop Jeff Lee.

The co-conveners of the consultation are Professor Gerald West, director of the Ujamaa Centre, and Professor Esther Mombo of St. Paul's University in Limuru, Kenya. The consultation, which will involve about 55 people, will be grounded in prayer and Bible study. Participants will include theologians, bishops, church leaders, grassroots advocates for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and other people willing to engage in intensive conversations across cultural boundaries.

Help Needed for All Saints' Day/Day of the Dead Setup
Friday, October 28th at 5pm

You are invited to lend a hand on Friday night, Oct 28th, beginning at 5 pm, to ready the sanctuary for All Saints Day on Sunday. We will hang your powerful and colorful prayer flags and our new papel picado. One plus is that you will be actually able to read more prayer flags than you ever imagined. Please contact Joey Sylvester at jlsylvester@rcn.com if you can join us. Pizza to be provided.

Our special memorial this year will be dedicated to the lives of Chicago children killed by violence. Beginning November 1 through November 6, the Hyde Park Union Church is coordinating Urban Dolorosa, a city-wide anti-violence effort in partnership with community groups and faith communities from across Chicago. Please consider going to 1 or all of these multi-cultural events calling on the city to notice this crisis of violence and to respond by supporting peace-making efforts in our neighborhoods. For more information, visit http://www.urbandolorosa.com or contact Joey Sylvester at jlsylvester@rcn.com.

Young Adult Prayer & Potluck
Monday, October 24 at 7pm

youngadults

Come and enjoy the relaxation and peace of God's presence and new friendships at our first Prayer & Potluck on Monday October 24, 2011 at 7:00pm. We will be gathering for silent reflection, prayer, and community building as we share a communal meal and talk about what we want to come out of All Saints' newest Young Adults Group. Please come with open hearts, open minds, your many ideas for what you're looking for in this group, and hungry tummies! Bring your favorite dish to share and we'll provide the drinks & the fun!

Where: Becky Gould's home. For the address, directions or if anyone wants a ride, email Brittany Barton at bebarton42@gmail.com or call her at 225.938.5861. We can set up a time to meet at the church and leave with one another at 6:45pm.

All Saints' Day/Day of the Dead
Sunday, October 30 at 9 and 11am

On Sunday, October 30, All Saints' will celebrate both All Saints' and All Souls' days with festivity, New Orleans-style music, and reverence. We invite you to invoke the spirits of and pray for departed loved ones by writing their names, your prayers, or whatever you desire on the colored paper available at the back of the church or by submitting your offerings electronically

here. Your offerings will be incorporated into colorful strings of Mexican paper banners that will be arrayed throughout the sanctuary.

We also invite you to create an ofrenda- an offering or altar-in honor of a loved one. It can be as simple as a framed photo or a more elaborate tableau that includes the favorite food, drink, and other worldly icons that evoke the departed. If you own a glue gun, you can make an ofrenda! (And if you don't own a glue gun, it's high time you did!) See the samples arrayed at the back of the sanctuary for inspiration. Or check out these websites:

http://www.azcentral.com/ent/dead/altar/

http://www.inside-mexico.com/ofrenda.htm

http://www.squidoo.com/ofrenda

Items from a Day of the Dead altar

The dollar store is a great source of colorful fake flowers, pillar candles encased in glass, and other shiny things (note that all lit candles have to be in glass, as All Saints' is a highly flammable church). Check out the scrap booking section at Target or Michael's. Old photos can be scanned and sized on your printer, or simply reduced on a photocopy machine.

Drop off ofrendas on Friday evening, October 28, between 6 and 8 or on Saturday, October 29, between 10 and 1. It's nice to include a card or statement that indicates who the loved one is, and who you, the creative and loving parishioner, are.

About Day of the Dead

In Mexico, November 1, All Saints' Day, and November 2, All Souls' Day, are a joyful time of remembrance known as Los Dias de los Muertos, the Days of the Dead. During this time, the souls of the dead return to earth-the spirits of los angelitos (children) on All Saints' Day and the spirits of adults on All Souls' Day. On October 31, families go to the graveyard to clean tombs and gravestones and to construct altars that honor their loved ones. These altars are bedecked with candles, gifts, flowers, photographs, the favorite food and drink of the departed, and candies and toys in the shapes of skulls and skeletons symbolizing the promise of resurrection, rather than decay and death. Profuse displays of marigolds and chrysanthemums are common.

Tuesday Night Meal Cooks and Kitchen Team Members Needed!
Help feed our neighbors in need!!!

Ravenswood Community Services (RCS), the food pantry and community kitchen here at All Saints', is seeking a new cook for the 4th Tuesday of every month. Our meal each Tuesday night for approximately 125 of our neighbors is planned and prepared by a different cooking team each week. Starting in November we will no longer have a cook or team in place for the 4th Tuesday of the month meal. If you are interested in helping to plan and prepare a meal on the 4th Tuesday of the month please contact our volunteer coordinator Liz Embler at liz@ravenswoodcommunityservices.org.

We are happy to have a couple different teams take turns and share the cooking for the 4th Tuesday if we have enough volunteer cooks. RCS pays for all the ingredients needed for the meal.

An Inspirational Week of Restoration
in New Orleans and the Wetlands

At the rebuild site.

Merci, merci for your

At the wetlands.

continued support and commitment to the All Saints' ministry in New Orleans and the Louisiana Wetlands. We bring greetings from St. Luke's, our partner parish in New Orleans. On Sunday we worshiped with our brothers and sister. It was wonderful to catch up on their current realities. On Monday and Tuesday, we worked on two houses with the Rebuild Program of Episco p al Community Services of LA. We primed and painted seven roo

ms in Ms. Mitchell's house in the 7th Ward; removed construction debris at her house and Ms. Taylor's house; and scrubbed newly laid floors in Ms. Taylor's house so she can move in the next two weeks. Our work has come full circle. During our first several trips, we used wheelbarrows to remove moldy and waterlogged debris. Now we use wheelbarrows to remove construction debris. The phoenix rises! Check out this website which references our visit http://ecsla.org/2011/09/19/rebuild-and-volunteer-update/

We bring you greetings from Bayou Grace, our partner organization in Terrebonne Parish, an area that has the largest land lost in the world. Check out their web site at http://bayougrace.wordpress.com/

We slept on Red Cross cots at the Rec Center in the bayou community of Chauvin, planted 3500 native species plants on the Fourchon Ridge, painted 15 planters for native species, and hung out at the incredible Voice of the Wetlands Festival in Houma, featuring Tad Benoit, a musician and activist on behalf of the bayou communities and the bayou way of life. Stay tuned for how we can advocate for restoration of the wetlands via SB1400 Restore Act.

Joey Sylvester, Facilitator,

Katrina Task Force

Episcopal Charities Ball
Friday, November 4th at the Palmer House

Join hundreds of friends from across our Diocese for dinner, dancing, and fun at the 52nd Annual Episcopal Charities Ball on Friday, November 4th, at the Palmer House Hilton, Chicago. The black-tie-optional gala will raise more than $60,000 for the Diocese's social outreach through Episcopal Charities and Community Services. Tickets are $250 per person. Silent & Live Auctions, and new this year, a Wine Auction! For more information, please contact Beau Surratt: beau@allsaintschicago.org or 773-561-0111, or Anne Sawkiw at ECCS: (312) 751-6721 or sawkiw@eccsonline.net or www.eccsonline.net.