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Don't Forget Your Pledge Cards This Sunday, Nov. 1!
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Don't forget to bring your pledge cards to church on All Saints Day, Nov. 1.
This Sunday, November 1, we will celebrate All Saints' Day with the culmination of our exploration of God the Giver, when pledges will be completed and offered as an act of worship and in response to all that God has provided. If you are not able to attend worship on All Saints' Day, please send your Ministry Pledge card to the church office. |
Annual All Saints Giving Tree
Tags Available Starting November 1
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The Annual Christmas Giving Tree will be available for your gifting pleasure starting on Sunday, November 1 - All Saints Day! This may seem a bit early to some, however our desire is to have these gifts blessed on December 6 - St. Nicholas Day; thus our gifting needs to begin sooner this year.
This year, we are working with four agencies:
- Victoria Hotel serving partially disabled or low income single adults
- Noah's Anchorage serving youths in crisis either at the shelter or on the street
- Mental Wellness Center Garden Street Apartment residents & the Friendship Club
- Angels Bearing Gifts - developmentally disabled adults who have out-lived their families
After you select a tag, note the color and number on the tag. Step to the table and ask for the entry book for your color tag. Sign your name after the corresponding number. It is very important that you keep your tag and return the tag with your gift. This will facilitate tracking which gift goes to which agency and client.
Please prayerfully consider selecting a tag or two from the tree, and make your gift to others less fortunate this holiday season.
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Calling All Artists - OF ALL AGES!
Xmas Card Deadline Extended!
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The deadline to submit your entries for this year's Christmas Card Contest has been extended until November 8, so be sure to submit your artwork for either the Adult Category or the Children Category! We will have one week of voting for each category starting November 9th to allow time for the cards to be printed. Cards will be for sale at the St. Nicholas Christmas Market on December 6.
All media (paint, photography, sketch, etc.) are accepted, and all parishioners are invited to enter. Titles and/or brief descriptions are optional, but please no greetings.
Email a scan of your artwork to: ChristmasCard@asbts.org
Inspired by the national Episcopal Church's Christmas Card contest, All Saints launched the First Annual Christmas Card Contest last year to much fanfare and we are thrilled to bring it back again this year!
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SAVE THE DATES: Shabbat Dinner & M4 Ecumenical Thanksgiving Service
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 Friday, November 13th at 6 p.m. - Shabbat Dinner: Please join us in the Parish House for a Shabbat Dinner. This family friendly interfaith Shabbat Dinner will be a chance for people to learn the history, order, symbolism, and Jewish traditions of Kabbalat Shabbat (the Friday evening service taht welcomes/receives the Sabbath), which precedes the dinner.
 Wednesday, November 18th at 6 p.m. - M4 Ecumenical Service of Thanksgiving at All Saints: Each year, during the week before Thanksgiving, the congregations of the four Churches of Montecito - the M4 - gather in a service of Thanksgiving worship. This year, All Saints will host the service again. We'll have a full choir, to which all are welcome! We'll rehearse at 6:00 p.m. in the church. The service will last approximately an hour. This is a definite "must not miss", to kick off the holiday season. |
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Furnishings Needed for a Family in Need
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Help Needed: One of the families that recently moved into the newly-opened Casas de las Flores apartments owned and managed in Carpinteria by Peoples' Self-Help Housing is in need of furnishings! The family consists of a single mother and four children (two preteens/teens and two younger children). The mother works as a nigh-shift taxi cab driver. The family was previously living in shared housing and has very little furniture and furnishings for their new home in the unfurnished apartment. The following donated items are great needed:
- Three dressers (not wide)
- Small dining table and five chairs
- Two bar stools
- Small tables and table lamps
- Two floor lamps
- Plastic tableware
Please prayerfully consider donating to this family in need. If you can help, please contact Parishioner David Boyd at dboydinc@aol.com |
Photos This Sunday For The 2016 All Saints Directory!
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If you would like to be included in the 2016 Photo Directory, please have your picture taken after either the 8AM or 10AM services this Sunday, November 1st.
 If you already have your photo in the current directory there is no need to have it taken again unless you want a new photo. The opportunity to update your mailing address, phone numbers, and email address(es) will also be available.
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Why is it important that All Saints hires a Children & Youth Minister? - Parishioner Michael Swift shares his thoughts...
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Book Group Meets on Monday, November 9
The Road to Character
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 The Book Group will be reading The Road to Character by David Brooks for our next meeting on Monday, November 9, at 6:00 p.m. We will gather in the Parish House for potluck dinner and discussion. All are welcome! For more information, please contact Rev. Vicki Mouradian at the church: vicki@asbts.org.
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Remember Items for All Saints' Food Wagon
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 All Saints' Food Wagon program is off to a great start thanks to your generosity. This program will continue each Sunday, as we collect food for the hungry along with essential hygiene products. Food and items that you bring for the hungry will be gathered each Sunday at the entrance in a green wagon and brought forward to the altar with our offerings and oblations to God. Your donations will be delivered to Cafe Picasso Food Pantry at St. Michael's University Church (St. Mike's) in Isla Vista to serve UCSB and SBCC students struggling with food insecurity.
All Saints' Food Wagon provides us all with an opportunity to give out of our abundance. One way to do so is to try spending 10% (the biblical tithe) of your grocery bill on food that you will give away. Parents, you might invite your children weekly to choose the food that your family will bring to church to give to those who don't have enough to eat. This makes them aware of the blessings of their life and forms them at a young age to make a difference in the hurts of their world. Through this simple but loving service, both young and old can extend Christ's grace from the meal we share at the altar to our hungry neighbors' tables.
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All Saints is Off to Ireland!
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October 16 - 25, 2016
Discover St. Patrick's Ireland with a Faith Tour designed by Collette.
Join parishioners, families, and friends for inspirational travel and fellowship while exploring world-famous spiritual sites in Ireland. Highlights of this trip will include Dublin, St. Patrick's Cathedral, Clonmacnoise, Westport, Knock Shrine, Galway, Croagh Patrick, Kylemore Abbey, Tobernalt Holy Well, Belleek, Belfast, Downpatirick, Armagh, and more. Our tour includes roundtrip air-fare from Los Angeles, complimentary transportation to the airport, hotel accommodations, daily breakfasts, four dinners, and gratuities for tour manager and bus driver.
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All Saints Goes to the Getty Center!
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A fall trip to the Getty Center is being planned for Saturday, November 21st. Please join us for a wonderful day experiencing art, architecture, gardens, food, and fellowship. Click here for more details. |
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Gobble, Gobble! The M-4 Frozen Turkey Drive is Around the Corner!
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All Saints is pleased to share that we will participate in the M-4 Turkey Drive again this Thanksgiving season to help feed our hungry brothers and sisters. Please look for more details in your Sunday bulletin.
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November 5th - Theology on Tap!
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 We invited everyone to join us for our first Theology on Tap! We will gather for a time of relaxed, informal discussion and fellowship starting at 6:00 pm on Thursday, November 5 at Yellow Belly (2611 De La Vina St). This might be a great opportunity to invite friends who are interested in issues of faith, but who might be uncomfortable in a formal church setting. Inspired by All Saints and All Soul's days, the focus of our discussion this time will be on the "cloud of witnesses": the ways in which our faith journey is shaped by those who have gone before. All are welcome! |
Swing Your Partner, Do Si Do!
November 6 at 5pm
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 Join us for a country Bar-B-Que dinner, square dancing and lots of fellowship. This is a family event, so bring grandma, grandpa and all the kids! We'll have a live band and a professional square dance caller who will give those of us with 2 left feet all the help we'll need to square dance. Wear your favorite country attire and BRING A LARGE SIDE DISH TO SHARE. Here's the schedule:
5:00 p.m. - gathering in the yard behind the church. Bring your potluck dish to the Parish Hall Kitchen.
5:30 p.m. - dinner is serve. We'll eat on the lawn, family style.
6:15 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. - Square Dancing in the Parish Hall
The Bar-B-Que entree will be provided by All Saints and a $10 donation per family is suggested. Side dishes are also needed and you can sign up at the Information Table.
(TRIVIA - Do you know where the term "hoe-down" comes from? It originated in rural America, and was a regular gathering of the community - mostly farmers - who literally put their hoes down, stopped working in their fields and enjoyed some fun, food and fellowship with their neighbors. These gatherings were the birth places of many musical styles indigenous to America, including Old Time, Bluegrass and Country Swing.) |
Newcomers Class: Setting Our Hearts
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 Setting Our Hearts will meet Sundays, 5:00 p.m. - 6:15 p.m. November 1-22 in the Parish House. This 4-week course is a unique and contemporary small group experience for adults offered to newcomers to All Saints-by-the-Sea and open to all people interested in taking a deeper look at their faith. Led by Rev. Aimee, Setting Our Hearts will explore basic Christian themes and symbols such as belonging, baptism, and communion, as understood in this Episcopal community of faith. Sign up now at the Info Table on the patio. |
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 Do you ever wonder about the prayers and hymns that inform our liturgy? Do you feel inspired by something new, wanting for the familiar, or a bit of both? Come to a conversation about liturgy at All Saints. On Sunday, November 15, following both the 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. services, Rev. Aimee and Steve O'Connor will share with you insight about how liturgy is created, information about the liturgical resources available within the Episcopal Church, and answer your questions. Our conversation will take place in the Parish House. |
Eventide Dinner - Soup Needed
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 Once again, this winter, we will be serving soup and salad for Eventide dinner each week. Your homemade soup donations will enable us to provide a lovely, yet simple meal after service each Wednesday evening. Here's how it works: Large food storage containers are available from Anne Hopkinson and in the Parish Hall kitchen. Pick one of these up, fill it up with your favorite soup, then put it in the stand along freezer just inside the Parish House Kitchen.
We look forward to a wonderful menu of tummy warming soups this winter.
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Photo of the Week
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Tractors visited All Saints Parish School!
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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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Because we all deserve a chuckle now and then...
(And in case you missed the announcement above)
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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!
Activists to discuss Central American refugee crisis - As part of the ongoing response to the Central American refugee crisis, the diocesan Program Group on Global Partnership and Church of the Epiphany (Lincoln Heights) invite Episcopal clergy and laity to gather on Friday, Nov. 13
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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