Welcome! Thanks for checking us out. If you're looking to visit us, please see below for a quick-and-dirty overview, or our worship page that explains our three morning services. Hope to see you. Fred+
Summer Worship Schedule change: Our summer worship schedule will begin May 25th and NOT June 1st! Please note in your calendars.
Summer worship hours are: 8am Rite I, no music.
And 10:30 Rite II, a blend of traditional and more
contemporary music.
What About Us?
All Saints’ is a community that gathers, as our Mission statement says, as Disciples Making Disciples For Jesus. God has revealed himself in the Old and New Testaments as he draws each of us into a relationship with him. Jesus taught us to be disciples and has sent each of us out to continue to make disciples. That’s our Mission.
Our Vision, how we are to act as a community, is to Love Like God Loves. Because God is Love and God’s actions are always loving, we hold up a vision of growing in our likeness of Jesus, who modeled God’s love for us in His self-sacrificial death upon the cross. As a Christian community, we are positively challenged by our uniqueness, necessarily and proactively seek loving behavior towards one another and then come together to work as servants in God’s Kingdom.
We gather around two books, the Bible-God’s language- and the Book of Common Prayer-our Episcopal heritage. These two resources are imperative for us; the Bible as we speak God’s language to one another and the prayer book as we find our common inheritance in worship and sacrament. The foundation of our Sunday worship is upon these two books.
If you visit us, I hope you will notice that in everything we do at All Saints’, we place a high value on worship, prayer and teaching from the Bible. Please join us on this joyful journey of living God’s Kingdom.
Welcome!
Fred H. Hoffman
Rector
What about our services?
If you're visiting this website with the intention to come worship with us for the first time, here's what you should expect on Sunday morning. PLEASE NOTE THAT BEGINNING MAY 25TH AND THROUGHOUT THE SUMMER, WE WILL OFFER 8AM RITE I NO MUSIC, AND 10:30 RITE II WITH A BLEND OF TRADITIONAL AND CONTEMPORARY MUSIC.
The 8am service is a small service with no music and only about fifty minutes long. If you come for the 9 or 11:15 services, you should be greeted by someone who will help guide you to the Living Room (our main entrance) where we have coffee and cookies. Our welcome desk will have someone behind it who is more than willing to answer any questions you may have and to help you navigate around our building. Ushers stand just inside the church entrance (the red doors) and between the Living Room and side entrance to the church. Ushers can help you find a seat and will hand you a bulletin.
The 9am service is in our new parish hall. Go through the Living Room into the Parish Hall and through the movable partition doors. Don't be intimidated by walking through the parish hall; the service is held beyond the partition and is surrounded by a beautiful windowed-view outside. We use a projection system for the words of the songs we sing and to follow the particulars of the service. This service is more informal.
The 11:15 service is our traditional Rite II Episcopal service with choir, organ and traditional hymns. You can follow the service in the bulletin handed to you by an usher, or in the red Book of Common Prayer. This service is the larger attendance of the three.
I hope you will find a green card in the back of the pews and fill out the tear-off portion and put that in the offering plates. This will help us follow-up with you, to welcome you, and to answer any questions you may have. Please introduce yourself to our clergy. And don't forget, the welcome hosts and hostesses at the welcome desk are there to answer any questions. Hope to see you Sunday.
So, whether it's a quiet olde-English style, or a louder more contemporary style, or a traditional Episcopal, Choir and organ Rite II, you'll find it here. Hope to see you soon!
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