Please hold all who suffer and all who work to alleviate the suffering in your prayers.

 

 

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• Bring cookies or bagels and cream cheese, or fruit , or any nibbles that you wish to share, and
• Prepare a table or serve from the counter.

Almost always, I have been there, leaving service early and making coffee and tea as well as buying milk or cream for coffee and juice or punch for the children.

Special thanks should go to those who have done this many times, especially Mary Kincaid, Bill Dennis, Anne Phillips, Pat Flores, Ellie Nonn, and Jean Saastamoinen. They are all most generous.

All Saints will once again host a neighborhood picnic as part of this national effort focused on neighborhood safety.  It's a wonderful opportunity to get to know our neighbors and say thanks for their support of All Saints programs.  The evening will feature:

See you there!

This is a reminder that The Neighborhood Center is open this summer for meeting space for non-profits and neighborhood activities.

The parts of the All Saints Parish building available for use are the Fireside Room, the Stage Area, the Worship Space, the Fellowship Hall, and the kitchen. Parishioners have first choice for building use. We encourage our neighbors to try out our space at low cost for parties and get-togethers.

Contact Maxine Sitts, Facilitator, at sittsbreck@att.net for more information, or go to The Neighborhood Center tree on the saintsalive.net website.

The next phase of upgrading will be the front deck and entrance ramp. This will make our church entrance more attractive and much easier for all of us to enter -- no more stairs.

There will be a plastic/wood deck -- same material as the rear ramp -- level with the Narthex floor, from the Fireside Room entrance to the west wall of the Sanctuary (40 feet) extending out as far as the end of the Fireside Room porch (22 feet). The 10-foot-wide entrance ramp will slope gently to almost the city sidewalk so that everyone will have an easy walk to the front doors.

This will really move the entrance of the church out toward the neighborhood and give us a wonderful gathering area for outdoor socializing and assembling. Some folks are already seeing Cafe tables and umbrellas for meetings and coffee hour. Someone suggested that there would be room for a roll-out labyrinth, and another could see dancing and partying on warm summer evenings. It should be easy to roll those BBQ grills up the ramp. What a great place this will be to assemble for Palm Sunday, Good Friday, etc.
 
Many thanks to Conway Pendleton and his Landscape Team -- Pendletons, Wrights, and Churchills -- for arranging to have the area cleared for construction. Some other trees and shubs that could conceal attackers were removed as well. Conway says that the new "easy- care" plantings will be really beautiful. Thanks to you all!
 
The following phases will be the ADA bathroom upgrades, then the kitchen renewal. It would be wonderful to have them all done by the September Cenennial Birthday Party if sufficient donations arrive in time.
 
Thank you all for your generous pledge support that is making this possible.
 
Jack Kincaid, Team Leader
2010 ADA Upgrade Team

Many folks have expressed their concern over the BP oil spill and have asked what they can do. Some have expressed interest in going down to work as volunteers. I have been talking with my contacts in New Orleans and expressed our community's willingness to help with clean-up or relief and, if possible, send a contingency of volunteers. Below is a response from program director Pete Nunnally.
 
If you would like to send a letter or donation, as he speaks of in his note, you can get it to the church office and let Janet know what it is for. I will gather them and mail them to the Urban Ministry in New Orleans, or you can mail directly to the address at the end of Pete's message. 

If you send a check, please make certain to include "For BP relief" in the notes on your check to ensure the dollars go where you want them to. In addition, please do not send gift cards from our local supermarkets (Safeway, Lucky, etc.) as those chains are not in New Orleans. If you have any questions, please feel free to call me at 510-537-0931. Thanks for your help, and blessings to you all.

Robin

My dear parishioners,
 
I am sending this email to you to clarify what I will be doing over the next year.
 
Although I will be working at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Oakland starting August 1st, this does not mean that I will be permanently leaving All Saints. I will take my diaconal training there for the next year as part of my seminary training.
 
Ryan will continue to attend Sunday school at All Saints, and while I may not be at Sunday liturgy, I will attend most All Saints functions, i.e., the Crab Feed, benefits, and prayer services along with any other services when feasible.
 
I will continue to have contact with you, my parish, through the Congregational Vocations Committee; they represent all the members of this parish as they walk with me in my journey to the diaconate. I will continue to meet with Fr. Rob monthly. I will report on my progress to the Vestry and to the parish through monthly updates in our newsletter. I will still be part of the Cursillo group and will help where I can with fundraisers.
 
I will not disappear, as this is and will continue to be my home parish, the church family that is raising me up to serve our neighbors.
 
If you have any questions, please give me a call or send email.
 
In Christ's Service,
John Trubina
510-568-9896
JTrubina@comcast.net

Celebrations: September 9-12
Committee Planning Meeting: Sunday, July 11, 9 to10 A.M.
 
Planning has been going on for a real huge celebration, with something (or two) for everyone! We hope this will be a fun filled family weekend to celebrate our 100th year. We started this celebration with our calendar and now the events are coming together.
 
Thursday, September 9, we will have a golf tournament and barbecue. This will include an adults tournament headed by Jim Halligan and Dennis Knights, and a BBQ for everyone (organizer needed).
 
Friday, September 10, we will have an evening concert and service recognizing gifts, both large and small that have been made to the parish. Dylan is organizing the concert. Cynthia Eaton is spearheading gathering the history of gifts given over the years and will develop a special booklet listing named gifts that have been given. Also a special recognition of the gift of our Yamaha piano.
 
Saturday, September 11, will be our dinner dance and auction. Our theme will be "through the decades" and will feature music sets from the various decades, along with a costume competition for the best look of the thirties, forties, etc. A potluck dinner is being organized by Mary Kincaid and Kathleen Waters. Pat Maus will chair decorations but will be having surgery so really needs someone to co chair. Jeanne Saastamoinen will organize clean up, the auction will be organized by Brandon Maus and Clyde Fralick, the Silent Auction will be organized by Robin Niderost, Accounting by Nancy Churchill and ticket sales by Nancy Churchill and Robin Niderost.
 
We still need people to work with set up, DJ, auctioneer, and to help each of the various committees.
 
Sunday, September 12, will be a celebration worship and the place of the time capsule. This will be set up by the worship team, altar guild, altar server team, Fr. Rob, Dylan, and others. We will be placing our prayers and messages to the future of All Saints in a time capsule.
 
Please seriously consider where your talents can best be used to make this an exciting, full-filled weekend.
 
We will meet on Sunday, July 11, between services, from 9-10 am. Please come join the fun and planning!
 
If you have questions or want to volunteer, call Liz Berg at 510-881-1763 or email lizberg@sbcglobal.net.

"No wonder the hills and groves were God's first temples," exclaimed John Muir in his writing on Cathedral Peak. Have you ever longed for an active, yet reflective, Christian outdoor worship experience? If so, have you ever heard of "liturgical hiking"?

Worship in the Wilderness is a ministry in Santa Fe founded by the Rev. Jon Anderson to worship God in the beauty of the outdoors. His liturgical hikes include the Holy Eucharist in the context of a wilderness hike. A sister branch of Worship in the Wilderness is now launching in the San Francisco Bay Area (both East and West Bay). If you are interested in participating in this emerging ministry as a celebrant, lector, intercessor, or fellow hiker, please email Justin Cannon at toseekjustice@gmail.com.

Hi, all.
 
I hope the spring is finding you well out in San Leandro. I wanted to update you on the status of TGF, and our plans for the future. We are still attempting to get fiscal sponsorship, and are in the process of incorporating as a 501(c)3. Because the process is going slower than hoped, we've adjusted our plans. Our hopeful first "guild" of farms will be planted in the spring of 2011, not this year.
 
Of course I will be keeping all of you informed of our progress (and when you can sign up!). Please plant a few tomato plants and enjoy the weather.
 
Thanks, and eat well,
Kelly
kelly@thegivingfarm.org