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Listening Around Children & Family Ministry
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As we continue to grow in Christ's ministry together, All Saints has a wonderful opportunity to develop our vision for children & family ministry. This month, Rev. Aimée invites all parishioners, parents, grandparents, teachers - everyone interested in this vital formational ministry is invited to share their thoughts and hopes as we come together in community to listen and begin to discern God's call for the future of this growing ministry at All Saints. In our recent parish profile, we articulated our heartfelt desire to grow ministry to children and families; now we can begin to act on that vision.
If you believe that ministry to children and their families is an important missional goal for our parish ministry, please attend one of the following listening sessions. Sign-up sheets are available on the Information Table after church on Sunday, or email info@asbts.org. If you are not able to attend any of the planned sessions, but desire to be a part of the conversation, please indicate this in the area provided on the sign-up sheets and we will provide more listening sessions.
Sunday, May 17, 11:30, with lunch and childcare, Parish Hall (limited to 30 people. More Sunday sessions will be scheduled as need is indicated.)
Thursday, May 21, 10-11:30 a.m. Parish House
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Mother's Day at Transition House - Food & Financial Donations Needed
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 Thank you to all who have donated & signed up to volunteer to help make this Mother's Day special for the moms who are living at the Transition House emergency shelter. Financial donations will go toward giving each mom a nice gift bag filled with little items to brighten her day. We will be accepting financial donations again today (the final day) after the 8:00 and 10:00 services. Look for us on the patio. You can still drop off financial contributions at the Church Office during the week. Additionally, we are in need of food donations for the dinner. Please visit the Information Table on the patio today to learn what's needed and to sign up for an item or two. Thank you to all who have signed up to volunteer to serve dinner - all of the volunteer spots have been filled, which is wonderful! 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.
Contact Patrice Mueller (themuellerfamily@cox.net), Leslie Huber (h.leslie@cox.net) for financial donations; contact David Boyd (dboydinc@aol.com) for food donations.
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New Adult Formation Class Starting May 6:
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. Sign up on the patio after church or email Rev. Vicki at vicki@asbts.org
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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Brain Fitness for Successful Aging
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Family Feast This Sunday, May 3
in Parish Hall (10AM)
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This 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. Come explore Family Feast! Questions: Rev. Vicki vicki@asbts.org
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Preschool Staff Gets CPR-First Aid Certified; Parent Council Purchases Child Pads for
Defibrillator
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The students weren't the only ones who learned something new during the most recent community unit - "First Aid/Rescue". Parish school
staff underwent a recertification/certification for CPR and First Aid for adults-children-infants. After learning that defibrilators are even more successful in saving lives than CPR, the Parent Council purchased child pads for the school's defibrillator and each staff member is now trained on the defibrillator - ready and prepared to save a life.
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Best of Luck, Golfers; Bidders!
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 The Annual Jim Bower Outreach Golf Tournament is this Monday, May 4 (10 a.m.) at La Cumbre Golf & Country Club! Best of luck to everyone teeing off and placing bids to boost Christ's ministry in the world through the All Saints Outreach Committee! Remember, this is Outreach's main fundraiser so friendly bidding wars are always invited!
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Join The ASBTS BOOK CLUB On Monday, May 11
For Fellowship, Books, & Potluck!
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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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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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Education for Ministry (EfM) Updates:
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The current Education for Ministry seminar group is on Week 30 out of 36 weeks. David Telleen-Lawton will be finishing his Year Four work and will graduate in June. Congratulations, David! The theme for this year is "Living Faithfully in a Multicultural World," and the group is currently focusing on hearing the call to ministry, vocation, and the effect of globalization on the mission of the church.
The group decided to donate as a group to Direct Relief International for aid to the earthquake victims and responders in Nepal. Each member contributed $20, and $180 was sent to DRI.
Each year the Diocese of Los Angeles has a Graduation Liturgy for EfM graduates, with family and guests from the diocese. The service, held at the Cathedral Center, is constructed by EfM groups from around the diocese, contributing to all aspects of the service, including musical selections, readings, homily, ushering and altar party. Santa Barbara EfM group mentor Robert Brown is involved in music leadership for this liturgy.
For information regarding EfM, please contact Robert Brown at
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Photo of the Week
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A group of All Saint's supporters at the Wilding Museum benefit at the Alisol Ranch, owned by the Jackson family (also ASBTS folks). Pete and Becky Adams (Pete's the former president of the Wilding Board), Karen and David Teleen-Lawton, Kathie Deviny and Paul Collins, and Franci and Ken Jewesson.
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Chapel Flowers Available for Dedication May 17
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The flowers in the chapel are available for dedication (in thanksgiving, loving memory, honor) on Sunday, May 17th. The cost is $35 and goes towards the flowers, helping to support our Flower Guild ministry. Please sign up on the Flower Board on the patio today and you will be contacted regarding your desired dedication. Questions: 969-4771
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All Saints Choir will start summer vacation after today's worship services. Thank you to all our volunteer and student choir members for helping to lift up our worship at All Saints.
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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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No Bible & Babble Monday, May 4
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Looking Ahead...
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- May 2 - Sunday School Family Field Trip to Long Beach
- May 3 - Family Feast & Youth Group
- May 4 - Jim Bower Outreach Golf Tournament
- May 4 - No Bible & Babble
- May 6 - Spiritual Writing Practices
- May 10 - Mother's Day Dinner at Transition House
- May 11 - ASBTS Book Club in Parish House
- May 13 - Sanctuary Tour at 4:45 p.m.
- May 13 - Spiritual Writing Practices
- May 17 - Listening Around Children & Family Ministry
- May 20 - Spiritual Writing Practices
- May 21 - Listening Around Children & Family Ministry
- May 27 - Listening Around Children & Family Ministry
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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!
Four Nominated for Presiding Bishop - The Joint Nominating Committee for the Election of the Presiding Bishop May 1 announced the names of the bishops it will nominate this summer to succeed Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori.
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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