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Greetings!
Don't forget to spring forward Saturday evening!
Daylight Savings Time is this Sunday. Set your clocks AHEAD one hour Saturday before bed to be on time for church in the morning. (Does Daylight Savings Time leave you groggy? Click here are some tips for putting some spring in your step this time of year.)
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Call for Lenten & Easter Dedications!
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Dedications are available for the succulents that are part of our beautiful desert-themed Lent altar. Please sign up on the flower board on the patio to reserve a Sunday during Lent to dedicate the succulents in thanksgiving, memory, or in honor of someone or a special occasion. Your dedication will appear on the cover of the bulletin for your specified Sunday. The cost is $35. You may also contact Anne at the office (969-4771).
Easter Flowers & Music: There is also an opportunity to do the same for Easter music and flowers. These dedications help make it possible for us to enhance our worship through floral displays and music.
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As you may have noticed, our sanctuary and altar look different this season. The flowers have been replaced with succulents and river rocks to remind us of an arid desert. This is because the season of Lent offers us a gracious opportunity to examine our lives in order to identify where we fall short so that we can turn our wills back toward God, whose nature is always to have mercy. Lent is an occasion to consider our spiritual health and deepen our spiritual lives. We do this by choosing well our Lenten disciplines that lead us more deeply into a relationship with God and one another. This Lent, All Saints offers many opportunities to deepen your walk with Christ. Through seasonal opportunities for worship, devotion, and study, we hope you will find yourself not only willing but able to please God and participate more fully in the work of God's kingdom.
Calendar of Lenten Activities at All Saints
Worship
Tuesday Morning Eucharist at 8:00 a.m.
Wednesday Evening Eventide and Suppers, 6:00 p.m.
Formation & Prayer
Sunday Mornings Healing Prayer & Centering Prayer, 9:15 a.m.
Monday Mornings Bible & Babble, 9:00 a.m.
Wednesday Mornings Men's Bible Study, 8:00 a.m.
Wednesday Evenings Lenten Series: Called to Life, 7:15 - 9:00 p.m.
Thursday Mornings Lenten Series: Called to Life, 10:00-11:45 a.m.
Thursday Mornings Christ-Centered Prayer, 12:00 p.m.- 1:30 p.m.
Saturday Quiet Day, February 28, 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Click here to learn more about Lent at All Saints.
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Please mark your calendars for services throughout Holy Week: Palm Sunday (March 29) Maundy Thursday (April 2); Good Friday (April 3); Easter Vigil (Saturday, April 4 at Sunset); and Easter Sunday (April 5).
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Photo of the Week
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Pallet by Hannah Stevens Allen
Hannah is the daughter of Fred & Suzie Allen.
Her art is displayed in the church office.
Scroll down to read more about Hannah and her artwork!
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Call for Easter Choir Singers
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Voices are needed to join a most glorious All Saints Easter Choir. No experience is needed, as the Spirit moves all voices in chorus! Many of our Westmont Choral Scholars will be out of town for Easter, so please help lift our choir. Rehearsal times will be convenient and everyone is invited to join. Please let Steve know if you're interested or if you have any questions: [email protected]. |
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Eventide During Lent
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Sunday School St. Patty's Pizza Party:
Su nday, March 15 after Church
Sunday School children, parents, and teachers are invited to a pizza party in the Parish Hall after the 10 a.m. service. Come for pizza; stay for fellowship, games and fun! Hint: this is also a perfect day to bring friends to church who may be curious about youth ministry at All Saints!
St. Patrick's Day Potluck with Irish Entertainment: 
Tuesday, March 17 at 6:00 p.m.
Come let's celebrate St. Patrick with good food, entertainment, and awesome fellowship! Connie Lindberg will be preparing Irish Stew and Vegetarian Stew and all those attending will provide the rest. You may also bring beer, wine, waters, and other beverages to share. A sign-up sheet for all dishes and attendance will be on the patio. The Claddagh Dance Company of Santa Barbara will again bring a student team to perform Irish Step Dancing and we will again enjoy Celtic music and song performed by our dear friends, Robert Brown and Patrick Hackney. This will be a wonderful fun-filled evening for our parish - young and old, families and friends - join us! Contact the Rev. Vicki with any questions: [email protected].
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This Sunday - Transition House
An Invitation to Serve Those in Need
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This Sunday, March 8, is All Saints' night at Transition House. All are welcome and many hands are needed. We will serve dinner at 6:30 p.m. and are in need of volunteers. If you can help prepare the meal, please arrive at 5:30 p.m. Transition House is located at 425 E. Ortega Street. Please visit the Information Table on the patio after service today for more information or contact: Pat Murdy or David Boyd.
Transition House is dedicated to the solution of family homelessness in the Santa Barbara community. All Saints has been blessed to be able to support this vital community organization for more than 20 years and you are invited to join in this tradition. Each month, parishioners from All Saints prepare and serve dinner to approximately 58 homeless family members.
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All Saints Google Virtual Tour
Courtesy of Brittany Myles
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Photographer Brittany Myles stopped by All Saints last month to shoot a virtual tour of our sanctuary and campus. Brittany works with Google to upload these to Google Maps and offers this service free of charge to one church a month. All Saints is honored to have been chosen by Brittany, thank you! Check out the tour for yourself by clicking here.You can also scroll through the other fabulous shots she took of the Parish Hall and our Sunday School rooms in the Parish House and nursery (Bubble Bee room).
Please take a moment to learn more about Brittany, including other business views, by visiting her website.
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Have You Taken a Behind-the-Scenes Sanctuary Tour?
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Behind-the-scenes sanctuary tours have been a great success. You can ask anyone who has participated, or you can see for yourself! The next tours are scheduled for the following dates and times:
- Wednesday, March 18 at 4:45 p.m.
- Sunday, March 22 at 9:10 a.m. or 11:15 a.m.
- Sunday, April 12 at 9:10 a.m. or 11:15 a.m.
- Wednesday, April 22 at 4:45 p.m.
- Sunday, April 26 at 9:10 a.m. or 11:15 a.m.
Everyone is invited, but RSVPs are required due to limited group size. Sign up for your preferred date and time at the Information Table or click here to RSVP by email ([email protected]). Once you sign up, you will receive an email confirmation.
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From the All Saints Archives
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Our church families from the 1975 All Saints Directory.
The current directory will be updated again this summer, so please look out for photo opportunities starting in May!
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Psalm Written by 2015 Confirmands
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During her visit, Bishop Jardine Bruce invited everyone to pray the psalm written by this year's confirmands as part of our Lenten discipline.
As the deer longs for the water-brooks
so longs my soul for you, O God.
I long to have your guidance,
all my working hours.
Help me O Lord,
to be loving and helpful to all.
My soul is uplifted,
in the warmth of your love, O Lord.
Lift my soul to the light, dear Lord.
As the deer longs for the water-brooks
so longs my soul for you, O God.
As a dog longs for his master,
I long for direction from Christ.
Help me, my God, to be your servant in our time.
As the deer longs for the water-brooks
so longs my soul for you, O God.
The Lord is my shepherd,
and I will do his will.
The trees of the forest reach toward heaven.
Love blooms in the warmth of the sun
And the cool of the rain, O God.
My heart sings the song of your truth and love,
mindfulness and gratitude are imperative.
For I am your own beloved heir of salvation
I thirst for you O Lord, parched is my heart.
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Outreach Golf Tournament: Are You Game?
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The golf tournament is just around the  corner! Monday, May 4th.
Sign up on the patio or email Sally Messerlian. Donations for auction are also needed. Don't know a thing about golf? Why not volunteer! No golf knowledge is required, only a generous spirit of service.
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New Exhibit in Church Office:
Hannah Stevens Allen
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Born in Santa Barbara, Hannah studied in Norton, Massachusetts and Ireland. While in Ireland, she discovered her love for oils and chose to explore the medium in her Senior Arts Exhibit at Weaton. After graduation, Hannah moved to Boston where she continued her exploration of the oil medium. The brisk and vibrant colors that she discovered in the changing seasons of New England quickly influenced her pallet. She utilized her exploration of color to display her whimsical youthful sense of humor, hoping to assist viewers to reconnect with her inner child. Hannah has recently returned to Santa Barbara and is currently undergoing a change in her process and content stylistically, and she is thrilled to be given the opportunity to assemble and display some of her older work of cityscapes and bright animal personalities for All Saints.
Please come see the gorgeous paintings of the most talented Hannah! (Those Allens are a gifted bunch!) |
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Looking Ahead...
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- March 7 - David Williams Memorial
- March 8 - Transition House
- March 8 - Sanctuary Tours after each service (rsvp required)
- March 10 - Finance Meeting
- March 10 - Vestry Meeting
- March 15 - Sunday School Families St. Patrick Pizza Party
- March 17 - St. Patrick's Day Potluck Dinner
Save the Dates for Holy Week!
Palm Sunday - March 29
Maundy Thursday - April 2
Good Friday - April 3
Easter Vigil - Saturday, April 4
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Because we all deserve a chuckle now and then...
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There are many more items for your attention than we can comfortably fit in the email each week. Please click on the headlines below to view some of the stories from the All Saints website and from around the country and the world!
Bishop Bruno asks for 'water tithe' in Lent to support world water projects - With the approach of Lent and World Mission Sunday (Feb. 15), Bishop Jon Bruno invites congregations to join a year-long diocesan "water-tithing" program designed to address the challenges of extreme water insecurity that the Diocese of Los Angeles shares with regions and nations around the world.
#ShareTheJourney pilgrimage begins in Kenya - On March 4, Anglican Bishop Joel Waweru of the Diocese of Nairobi welcomed the #ShareTheJourney pilgrims to Kenya, and offered a brief overview of the Anglican Church of Kenya.
Refugee women, children rebuild lives in Arizona - Peace and security that let them close their eyes and sleep at night; the ability to work and provide for their families: These are the things that female refugees - most of them single mothers - say changed most dramatically in their lives after they were resettled in Tucson.
'Future50 cohort' nurtures emerging faith leaders - Fifty young people ages 24 to 35 living and working in the greater Los Angeles area make up the Future50, a cohort of rising young religious leaders, lay and ordained, who are engaged in social justice issues and committed to religious pluralism.
Panorama: Blogs of the Episcopal Church - Various opinions and viewpoints of Episcopalians, as well as discussions of personal faith journeys, and conversations about the mission and ministry of the Episcopal Church.
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