All Welcome

~ Every week at All Saints ~

Sundays

10:00am Choral Eucharist
Preacher: The Rev. Steven Yagerman

Christian Education: Coming to Faith

Sundays at 9am before church we will study the lives of various Saints focusing on the path and decisions that led them to faith. All are welcome for any week or weeks they choose to join us.

Wednesdays

5:00pm Meditative Eucharist

Saturdays July and August

Summermeals have begun; see details below

September to June

5:00 - 6:30pm All Saints Community Meal
Saturday evening hot dinners (soup kitchen) in Levy Hall

SUMMERMEAL: feeding the hungry all year around

We are continuing our meals program year around for the second year.  The first picnic bag suppers will be distributed in the garden beginning on July 10. As always, we need your help in setting up, serving, and clean-up.

Many people find volunteering at our community meals is the spiritual medicine that makes their life and their faith work. Won't you join us in serving the needy?

     

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Letter from the rector    added 5/7/10

What do you like about All Saints?

When I first visited All Saints last Easter, I was immediately impressed with the beauty of the liturgy (including the great music), the eloquence and authenticity of the rector's sermons, and most of all the friendliness, openness and salt-of-the-earth goodness of the people I met here. I feel fortunate to have found a church with such a perfect balance of the sacramental, the scriptural, and the social.  ~Chris T.     2/7/10

All Saints is easy to get to.

In the Middle Ages, stained glass windows were one way the biblical story was communicated to the people of God. For centuries this craft has enriched the worship and spiritual life of the church. All Saints parish has been blessed to inherit several windows of considerable beauty and spiritual import, many of them installed in the early years of our building around the end of the 19th century, when All Saints was known as St. Thomas Chapel. Now however, these treasured works of art are really showing their age.

The beautiful windows left and right are in our side chapel.

STAINED GLASS RESCUE

Although All Saints’ beautiful stained glass windows look stable and secure, they have only a mortal life. Annual expansion and contraction through the years have inexorably compromised the glass and damaged the frames. we can no longer defer repair and restoration of these historic artifacts in our care. The necessary maintenance and renewal are going to be a long and costly process we all must share. At this point, we have determined a triage strategy to fix the worst ones first, and then prioritize the rest as funds come to match needs.

More stained glass window photos and history     updated 3/6/10

Our Ministries: Feed the Hungry

All Saints Community Meals are in full swing. Join Our Team!

This has been our fifth year providing free weekly meals to some sixty guests as part of our Christian testimony and ministry to the needy, and our second year continuing through the summer. We welcome volunteers.

Sponsoring a meal for $125 is a beautiful way to memorialize someone. Your names and  the reason for your contribution (appreciation, a special commemoration, a living memorial, a birthday, etc.) will be listed in the Sunday bulletin. If you like, a letter will be sent to those you wish to honor in this way.

From September through June, our hot meals are served at 5:00 on Saturday afternoons. It takes many hands to pour drinks, put out serving pieces, set tables, fold napkins--there is a job to utilize everyone's abilities. Usually the volunteer work gets done between 4:30 and 6:15. Our community meals are lovingly served to seated guests, rather than asking them to file through a serving line with plate outstretched. We are told often how welcome this makes the guests feel. It also means we need your help even more, though.

The summer of 2009 was first time we offered bag suppers for our friends to eat in the church garden, or to take away. Feedback from the guests encouraged us to do it again through the summer of 2010.

If you happen to have spare kitchen gadgets, pot lifters, serving pieces, etc., consider donating them to the community meal operations.

Decide how you'd like to help, and then let us know. You can call the church office at 212-758-0447, or email us at info@allsaints-nyc.org. Lay co-ordinators Robin and Denise receive emails sent directly to communitymeal@yahoo.com.