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Mother's Day at Transition House - Donations Needed
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 Please help make this Mother's Day special for the moms who are living at the Transition House emergency shelter. We would like to give each mom a nice gift bag filled with items such as jewelry, cosmetics, shower gels and a gift card. We will be accepting donations of money after the 8:00 and 10:00 services this week and next. Look for us at the Information Table. You can also drop off your donations at the Church Office during the week. Living with your family in a homeless shelter on Mother's Day is a grim experience for mothers. The small gifts All Saints will give these mothers at dinner on Sunday, May 10 (also All Saints' night to serve) will provide a brief respite from this reality. Thanks so much for supporting this gift of love.
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New Adult Formation Offering:
Spiritual Writing Practices
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 Explore the life of the spirit through journaling, memoir, poetry, and other forms. The class, based on the text What's in a Phrase?: Pausing Where Scripture Gives You Pause by Marilyn Chandler McEntire, will include writing exercises and practice. Class will meet in the Parish House Wednesday evenings after Eventide and supper, 7:15 - 8:45 p.m., May 6, 13, and 20.
The Rev. Vicki Mouradian and parishioner Kathie Deviny will co-facilitate this enlightening course. Kathie joined All Saints in 2012 after relocating from Seattle with her husband, The Rev. Paul Collins. After a career in social work she studied creative writing and her personal essays have appeared in religious and health publications. Her first mystery was published in 2012 and a second is in the works.
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Still Time to Make a Difference!
11th Annual Jim Bower Community Outreach Golf Tournament Is Monday, May 4
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Sign up to play in the 11th Annual Jim Bower Community Outreach Golf Tournament on Monday, May 4, 2015. Players are still welcome to register and volunteers, donations, and auction items for the day are also sought. Contact Sally Messerlian at themesserls@gmail.com Click here to learn more.
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Family Feast & Youth Group Next Sunday, May 3 in Parish Hall (10AM)
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Next Sunday (May 3) is the first Sunday of the month which means it's time for Family Feast! Individual Sunday School classrooms do not meet on Family Feast Sundays. Instead, all children and parents (and grandparents) are invited to gather together in the Parish Hall for a special service with Holy Eucharist designed specifically for children preschool and elementary aged. Children in grades 6 and up are invited to meet in the Youth Room in the Parish House for Youth Group. Come explore Family Feast next Sunday! Questions: Rev. Vicki vicki@asbts.org
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Walk-of-Fame Tiles
April 6th-April 30th, "walk-of-fame tiles" will be sold for $600 per tile for the school entrance. Each tile holds up to 5 family names. Tiles will be engraved by graduation in June. Please take a look at the walkway for ideas for your tile. Contact Padric by April 30th for more information: school@asbts.org.
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Thank You To All Who Helped Make Our 50th Anniversary So Special!
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Thank you to all who helped All Saints-by-the-Sea Episcopal Parish Preschool mark 50 years of service to the Santa Barbara community! The 10am service grew out of preschool chapel and we gathered in fellowship for a carnival-style picnic with $1 hot dogs, lemonade & popcorn, games, face painting and 60s DJ! Click here to view the wonderful photos by Fred Allen!
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Sunday School Teachers: Teacher visioning meeting scheduled for THIS Sunday, April 26 after the 10am service with lunch provided. Meet in the Parish Hall.
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Mount Calvary Retreat & Workshop:
"There's a Wideness in God's Mercy"
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June 19 - 21, 2015
Mount Calvary Monastery and Retreat House
Santa Barbara, CA
Many of us were raised with an image of God as the just judge who would throw the book at us if we didn't behave. In this retreat, Br. Bob Pierson will share his reflections on the hymn text "There's a Wideness in God's Mercy," and will show through the parables of Jesus and several events in Jesus' life that he shared a
much different image of God with his followers.
 Br. Bob Pierson is a monk in The Order of the Holy Cross at Mount
Calvary Monastery and Retreat House in Santa Barbara, CA.
www.mount-calvary.org
To register call: 805-682-4117 or email mtcalvary1@aol.com
$275 per person includes room and meals. All major credit cards are accepted.
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All Saints-by-the-Sea now offers online giving.
Convenient. Easy. Secure.
Give out of God's love and gifts in your life that others may feel Christ's love and grace.
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Have You Signed Up for the Trip to the Aquarium of the Pacific, Long Beach Saturday, May 2nd? Don't Delay!
A few tickets remain for the All Saints trip to Long Beach Aquarium, May 2nd. All Saints will provide the bus, the only cost to you is the admission ticket. 
Behind the Scenes Tour: We have 40 reservations for the Behind the Scenes Tour. The tours are for groups of 10 each at 1:00, 1:30, 2:30, and 3:00 p.m. We will divide into groups.The tours are about 30 minutes.
Adults - $42.95; Children (7-11) - $28.95; Seniors (62+) - $39.95
Tickets for Adults and Children under 7 not taking the tour:
Adults - $28.95, Children (3-6) - $14.95, Children (under 3) - free,
Senior (62+) - $25.95
Please sign-up ASAP, so we can help the aquarium make the proper arrangements for our group.
That day, please bring a picnic lunch for your family. We will eat together at a designated picnic area with tables upon our arrival. We will depart All Saints at 8:45 a.m. and return at 6:30 p.m. (departing the aquarium at 3:45 p.m.) Sign-ups are on the Information Table on the patio. Contact The Rev. Vicki for more information: vicki@asbts.org or 969-4771. Friends are welcome!
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Photo of the Week
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A darling duo: Sam (father) and Samuel (son) Young at the 50th Anniversary worship service. The pews were decorated with preschool art. Samuel is also a Parish School Alum.
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Nametags are in! If you ordered a nametag, please visit the board on the patio this Sunday to claim yours. If you need a nametag (or replacement), please contact the Anne Hopkinson in the office at 969-4771.
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Summers Were Made for Camp!
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Looking for more than a vacation? Our diocesan camp and retreat center, Camp Stevens does much more than summer camp. Join one of their adult trips this summer or fall. The Adult & Family Basecamp Backpacking Trip (July 10-18) takes beginning and more experienced backpackers on a breathtaking trip in the Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains, with mules to carry the gear. And their Fall Baja Trek in October is a relaxing camping trip on the shore of the Sea of Cortez. Contact ashley@campstevens.org for more information.
Family Camps with Camp Stevens The whole family can get in on the fun at Camp Stevens. Their community-focused family camps include two weekend Family Camps: Sprout: Spring Family Weekend and Memorial Day Family Camp. Both are great for grandparents and grandkids, or extended families. Find out more at
www.campstevens.org/family
It's summer camp season! Camp Stevens, our diocesan summer camp in the mountains of San Diego, offers 6-day summer camp sessions for 8-16 year olds (plus one 2-week session just for 12-15 year olds), and wilderness adventure trips for teens. Send a child in your life on an empowering, faith-based, and fun adventure this summer. Find out more at www. campstevens.org/summer
Did you know that 1/3 of the campers who attend Camp Stevens do so with the assistance of a campership? Contribute to the campership fund at www.campstevens.org/donate
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Opportunity for Cooking Demonstration
|  Lenore Hughes, wife of Gethin Hughes, retired Bishop of San Diego and former Priest at ASBTS and author of Cups of Fortune, is writing a cookbook featuring her favorite Armenian recipes. Those of us who are fortunate enough to have tasted a few of her recipes are eagerly awaiting its publication.
Lenore has been giving cooking demonstrations to small classes at her home in Los Olivos and has offered to plan a special cooking demonstration for a group from ASBTS. If you are interested, please contact Judy Mack at jcsmsb@gmail.com. Please include some dates you would be free to drive to Los Olivos in the morning, returning after the lunch we will have watched Lenore prepare.
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Sanctuary Tour Program Update;
Lots of Interest as Tours Continue
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"Why do I need to take a tour of the Sanctuary? I sit in Church every Sunday!" If this thought has crossed your mind, well, please think again. More than 120 parishioners have taken a Sanctuary tour to receive an update on the plans to preserve our beautiful and historic Sanctuary and to ready it for its next 100 years of worship. The tour provides an update since the Town Hall meeting held last May: a lot has happened since then and you'll get all the details.
Rest assured that this is not a fundraising activity, just a chance to get an update on the Sanctuary readiness plans. You can sign up in advance by clicking this link - or you may just stay after service to join any tour. You do not need to sign up in advance! The next tour dates are:
Sunday, April 26 - after both the 8 and 10 a.m. services
Wednesday, May 13 - 4:45 p.m.
Sunday, May 17 - after both the 8 and 10 a.m. service
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A Continued Sign of Our Baptism
The filled font in the westward baptistry stands as a continual sign of our baptism. We enter church through the waters of baptism, and we enter back into the world through the waters of baptism. Wherever we go, we are the Body of Christ, called to carry out the promises we make at our baptism.
Feel free to touch the water and mark your head as you enter the church, and enter back into the world.
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All Saints Book Club Meets May 11
Come for Fellowship, Potluck, Oh and the Book!
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 All Saints Book Club will meet on Monday, May 11 at 6pm in the Parish House for a potluck dinner to discuss the May selection Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters at the End by Atul Gawande. In Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending. Full of eye-opening research and riveting storytelling, Being Mortal asserts that medicine can comfort and enhance our experience even to the end, providing not only a good life but also a good end. Everyone is invited. Contact Rev. Vicki at vicki@asbts.org with any questions.
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Looking Ahead...
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- April 26 - Sunday School Teacher Meeting in Parish House
- April 26 - Sanctuary Tour after both services
- May 2 - Sunday School Family Field Trip to Long Beach
- May 3 - Family Feast & Youth Group
- May 4 - Jim Bower Outreach Golf Tournament
- May 11 - ASBTS Book Club in Parish House
- May 13 - Sanctuary Tour at 4:45 p.m.
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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!
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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