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Don't Spend a Boring Friday Night In...Grab Your Partner & Do Si Do!
Parish Hall Tonight, November 6 at 5pm
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 This evening, 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.
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Book Group Meets Next 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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Support All Saints' Children & Youth Ministries!
Inaugural St. Nicholas Market Coming December 6
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The inaugural St. Nicholas Marketplace is coming to the All Saints patio  on December 6 after the 10 a.m. service. The Marketplace is a perfect way to help support All Saints ministries to children and youth - and do some holiday shopping along the way!
Donations are needed! Parishioners are invited to help by donating beautiful and desirable items from your home:
- Books
- Fine paintings, drawings, photographs, and sculpture for silent auction personal works of art you not longer have space to display
- Crafts of all kinds - handmade jewelry, knitwear, holiday decor
- Greens - wreaths, orchids, and holiday plants
- Baked good and holiday confections
The St. Nicholas Marketplace organizing committee also welcomes volunteers to help organize the event in advance and to work on the day of the event. Please sign up at the Information Table if you are willing. Click here for more information. |
Annual All Saints Giving Tree
Tags Available Starting November 1
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The Annual Christmas Giving Tree is available for your gifting pleasure! Please look for it on the patio after worship services. 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!
2 More Days to Submit Your Artwork!
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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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Sanctuary Tour Next Sunday, November 15
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 Have you had a behind-the-scenes tour of the church?
Ever wondered what is behind the Rerados?
Now is your chance to learn about All Saints Church building! Just meet at the Bell Tower at either 9:15 a.m. or 11:15 a.m. on Sunday, November 15th
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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 |
Santa Barbara Food Bank Needs Volunteers
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November is Foodbank's busiest time of the year! Please sign up below for anything you can commit to helping with:
Click here to see all of the one-time events coming up that need volunteers.
Click here to see all of the volunteer opportunities appropriate for kids or families.
In order to make our warehouse most efficient, we still need lots of help. Click here to see all of our warehouse jobs and sign up. The most urgent warehouse jobs to fill are:
Volunteer leaders (commitment: 1 four hour shift per week, long-term)
Grocery Rescue Co-Pilot (commitment: 1 four hour shift per week, long-term)
Volunteer Shopper (commitment: 1 four hour shift per week, long-term)
Various warehouse shifts (no commitment required for these shifts)
We also have lots of Backyard Bounty shifts available for sign-up so you can help harvest produce too! Click here to sign up for our Backyard Bounty program. Note, Backyard Bounty uses a different volunteer management system than the rest of our positions, so please register with the Backyard Bounty program via the link above if you'd like to harvest produce.
Please sign up online for any shift you can commit to and contact Melissa Howard at 805-403-8471 with any questions.
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Authentic Christmas: Family Advent Workshop
It's upon us once again - the most magical, stressful, pressure-filled time of the year. No other holiday comes with the activity, expectations and potential quite like the Christmas season. The bittersweet truth is we will never have this Christmas again; so it's a worthwhile investment to build a strategy that doesn't leave you face down in a plate of sugar cookies and tears by Christmas Eve.
Please join us for an Advent Family Workshop: Authentic Christmas to help inspire and give you the tools for a meaningful, fun and real Christmas.
Topics covered will include:
- Why Christmas and Advent matter and why it doesn't need to be perfect.
- Taming the Christmas Machine of excess and materialism
- Making memories with your family by doing less and making it mean more.
- Prepping your heart, mind and schedule to make good choices as a family
When: Sunday, November 15th from 5:00 - 6:00 p.m. (with a family pizza dinner after)
Where: All Saints-by-the-Sea, Parish Hall Led by Parishioners Mark and Leah Watson All are invited, please feel free to invite friends. Email leahelizabethwatson@gmail.com with any questions. Childcare will be available and there will be a family pizza dinner following the workshop. This is a free event, but we do ask you to RSVP so we can plan for materials, childcare and dinner.
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Thanksgiving Day Service & Lunch
Thursday, November 26th
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The service begins at 10:30 a.m. and the lunch follows. All are welcome! Sign up to bring a side dish at the Information Table; All Saints provides the main dish.
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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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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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So far we have received 150 pledge cards. 59 of these have made an increase over last year and 17 of these pledges are from brand new pledgers. The dollar total so far is $605,639. If you haven't turned in your pledge card yet, please feel free to drop it in the offering plate or mail/bring it to the church office.
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 The nominating committee invites you to make recommendations of people to serve on vestry. The vestry is a body of non- ordained people in the Episcopal Church, duly elected by the members of the church to provide oversight with the rector of the spiritual and material concerns of the parish. Vestry members should have been active in the life and ministry of All Saints-by-the-Sea for one year. The nominating committee will enter into a period of discernment once names are received. Please submit names for vestry recommendations to David Telleen-Lawton at DTL@TMP.ucsb.edu by November 22nd. Also - updated language for pledge total - So far we have received 150 Pledge Cards. 59 of these have made an increase over last year and 17 of these pledges are from brand new pledgers. The dollar total so far is $605,639 toward our preliminary 2016 pledge budget of $1,070,000.00. If you haven't turned in your pledge card yet, please feel free to drop it in the offering plate or mail/bring it to the church office. |
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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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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All Saints Altar 2015 (Thanks for sharing your photo, Michael Ditmore!)
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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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Looking Ahead...
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- November 6 - Family Dinner & Hoe-Down at 5pm
- November 11 - NO EVENTIDE
- November 13 - Shabbat Dinner at 6pm in Parish House
- November 15 - Family Advent Workshop & Pizza at 5pm
- November 21 - All Saints Trip to the Getty
- December 6 - St. Nick Day & Christmas Market at 10am
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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!
Video: Jefferts Schori reflects on nine-year term as Presiding Bishop
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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