OCTOBER 15 - ONGOING

Small Group Offerings for Fall 2009


See the catalog of all the exciting book and discussion groups currently being offered. 

 
NOVEMBER 15

Celebrating The Charter for Compassion
Rector Ed Bacon's sermon  will be "I pledge allegiance to compassion, and to the human family for which it stands."

Join our Sunday worship at 9:00 or 11:15 a.m. to celebrate this seminal event and All Saints' continued committment to turning the human race into the human family.

NOVEMBER 15

Foster Care Project Food Collection for Thanksgiving
The All Saints Foster Care Project (FCP) and its Adopt a Child Abuse Caseworker (ACAC) program will be collecting non-perishable food items to provide Thanksgiving dinners to local foster care families. We are requesting canned hams that do not require refrigeration and canned fruits and vegetables. Also needed are packaged desserts, juices, baby food, and diapers (newborn to size 5). You may also provide a $10 grocery store gift card and let one of the FCP volunteers do the shopping for you! Food items and gift cards may be dropped off to the FCP table on Sunday, Nov. 15. In addition, food items may be dropped off to Anne Riffenburgh’s front porch: 1910 Spruce Street, South Pasadena before November 16. Gift cards may be put through the mail slot. Please check expiration dates before donating and remember that only non-perishables can be accepted.

NOVEMBER 15

First Jazz Vespers of the Season!
Sunday, Nov. 15, 5 p.m. in the Church. Grammy nominated harpist, Carol Robbins offers music. One of the world’s few jazz harpists, Ms. Robbins has recorded and performed with an eclectic variety of artists including Billy Childs, Manhattan Transfer, Brian Wilson, Bjork, Dianne Reeves, Linda Ronstadt, Nina Simone, Teddy Edwards and Frank Sinatra. Her memorable television credits include Cheers, Frazier and The Tonight Show. Christina Honchell offers a meditation. For more information, contact Melissa Hayes at 626.583.2725 or mhayes@allsaints-pas.org. Child care provided.



NOVEMBER 15

NEW Vision Partners 10th ANNIVERSARY GALA – Honoring Lorna Miller
Founded out of All Saints Church, New Vision Partners is celebrating its 10th year of reaching out to at-risk communities with partnerships that promote peace and justice.  From supporting orphans going to college in Rwanda, to teaching Pasadena teenagers filmmaking and radio production, to tutoring elementary students, to building interfaith peacemaking, to sending high schoolers to India - NVP is striving to help children, teens, and families here in Pasadena and internationally to become all that they were created to be.
     
We are honoring our founding Executive Director, Lorna Miller, for 10 years at the helm of NVP.  Lorna has been a tireless advocate for those with no voice and those on the margins of society.  Please come and join us as we salute Lorna with a fantastic evening at the Brookside Golf Course on November 15, at 6:00 PM.  For more information, and to reserve a spot, please call Joseph Yi at (626) 808-1770, or email him at jyi@newvisionpartners.org.  For more information about New Vision Partners, please visit our website at www.newvisionpartners.org.  We would love to have you as a part of our NVP family as we seek to establish NVP as a potent force for good in these days!

NOVEMBER 20

Fiction Fun! for November
On Friday, Nov. 20, at 7:30 p.m. in the Guild Room, we will discuss Marilynne Robinson’s Home. A.O. Scott of the New York Times writes that Home “is a book unsparing in its acknowledgment of sin and unstinting in its belief in the possibility of grace. It is at once hard and forgiving, bitter and joyful, fanatical and serene. It is a wild, eccentric, radical work of literature that grows out of the broadest, most fertile, most familiar native literary tradition.” The book is available for Fiction Fun! members at Vromans with a 20% discount. For further information, please contact Amanda McCormick at amccormick@allsaints-pas.org or 626.583.2765.




NOVEMBER 21

Bible 101
Ready for a fresh look at the Bible? Welcome to Bible 101! This three-hour workshop on Saturday, Nov. 21, 9 a.m. to noon in the Guild Room, will open the door for Bible study with an All Saints' small group or on your own. You will find out what’s actually in the Bible; understand how—and why—it was written and compiled; learn new ways of making sense of scripture; understand how our personal histories shape our interpretations, and even get tips on how to select a Bible you'll enjoy reading. Led by Sarah S. Forth, Ph.D., author of Eve's Bible. For more information, contact Sarah Forth at 323.664.5026 or sforth@igc.org.



NOVEMBER 22

20/30 Sunday Series for Young Adults
Engaging Evangelicalism: What, if anything, can we learn from Evangelicalism? continues on Sunday, Nov 22 at 1:00 p.m. in the Guild Room. Whether or not you have personal experience with Evangelical Christianity, you probably have an opinion about it. But what do we really know? Meet others in their 20s and 30s as we look behind the stereotypes and the politics to ask: what do all faith-seekers want from church? For more information email siya.allsaints@gmail.com or contact Isabel Leus at 626.583.2733 or ileus@allsaints-pas.org.



NOVEMBER 24

J-Street and Advances in Middle East Peacemaking
Please join us at this exciting and important event on Tuesday, November 24. Print out the flyer here.



















NOVEMBER 25

Thanksgiving Eve Service
Join us for a Thanksgiving Eve Service, Wednesday, Nov. 25 at 7:30 p.m.  Members of Canterbury and Coventry choirs sing Anthem for Thanksgiving by William Billings; Zelda Kennedy offers a meditation.  Child care provided.



NOVEMBER 26

Thanksgiving Dinner-In-The-Park
For over 30 years, Union Station Homeless Services has sponsored the annual Dinner-in-the-Park on Thanksgiving Day in Pasadena's Central Park. These events bring together thousands of volunteers to serve a hearty meal and holiday cheer to our less fortunate community members. Last year 8,500 meals were served on Thanksgiving and Christmas to people who were homeless, and to senior citizens who were alone or unable to afford a holiday meal.
     
Help make this holiday season special by volunteering or donating food or toys. To volunteer call 626.240.4550 x542 or go  directly to the volunteer registration table when you arrive. Registration opens at 9:00 a.m. Volunteers are also needed for the day before or day after (Nov. 25 and Nov. 27). To volunteer the day before or day after, please call 626.240.4550 x125 for more information.
     
You may also donate prepared food: Fully Cooked Turkeys and Hams (please visit the USDA website for safety instructions), Side Dishes (safely prepared in disposable aluminum containers): mashed potatoes without gravy, sweet potatoes, corn, gravy, and green beans; Desserts (please, no jello). If you plan to make side dishes or desserts that will serve more than 20 people, please see the current needs list at www.unionstationhs.org/dinners_in_the_park.html.
     
Food can be dropped off at Central Park on the corner of Fair Oaks Avenue and Del Mar Blvd, from 9:30 - 11:00 a.m. on Thanksgiving morning.



NOVEMBER 29

COLORS Field Trip to the Huntington Gardens
COLORS (Christians Offering Love to Overcome Racism in Society) invites everyone to join a trip to the museum at our local Huntington Gardens on Sunday Nov. 29. The exhibition Central Avenue and Beyond: the Harlem Renaissance in Los Angeles features materials relevant to our mission to educate ourselves and others about the far reaching effects of racism in American culture.  This exhibit is a celebration of Los Angeles’ contribution to the Harlem Renaissance which saw a flourishing of African American literature, art, music and social commentary in the early 1920’s and 30’s. During the same time period in Los Angeles a vibrant scene of jazz clubs and literary societies were developed around Central Avenue, now sadly, long gone. This exhibition, which chronicles just a few of the many remarkable accomplishments of black Angelinos, is a collaboration between The Huntington and the Mayme  A. Clayton Library which houses the extensive collection of African American materials gathered by the late Mayme Clayton, an academic librarian for over 40 years. We will meet on the lawn at 2:15 p.m. (after the 1 p.m. service) and carpool to Huntington Gardens. After the exhibits the group will meet at a nearby restaurant for an early dinner and a chance to discuss our experience.
     
For more informationt and to RSVP, please visit the COLORS table on the lawn on Sundays or call Sandra Lindsey at 213.793.1314.



NOVEMBER 29

Advent Potluck with Wreath Making
The Parish Council and Children Youth and Family (CYF) invite you to join them in their Advent potluck supper on Sunday, November 29. The program will start at 5:00 p.m. with an Advent evening service followed by a potluck supper and Advent wreath making. If you can join us for this wonderful celebration, please bring a dish that will serve 12 people. If your last name starts with A-L bring a main dish. If your last name starts with M-Z then bring a salad or vegetable. The Parish Council will provide drinks and dessert. The cost of the wreath making materials will be $10. Everyone is welcome!
     
For more information, please contact Norma Sigmund at 626.583.2734 or nsigmund@allsaints-pas.org.



DECEMBER 6

Alternative Christmas Market: Christmas Is Coming: Are You Ready?
By now you have resigned yourself to the fact that Christmas is coming, and coming fast. You know there aren’t enough hours to get ready for the onslaught of what you have to do: cooking, baking, and that’s not even including the family stuff. And on top of it all you need to go shopping!  Ah yes, Christmas shopping. Once upon a time you probably accomplished it with a Christmas carol on your lips and a full, loving heart. But those days have been gone for quite a while.  Tradition does hang heavily sometimes, and with that is the burden of what the heck do you get for everyone? Especially in times like these, when money is tight.  Worry not.  All Saints has the perfect remedy for you, where you can get all your shopping done in one –count it – ONE day!  Here’s how it works:
     
Come to the All Saints Alternative Christmas Market on Sunday, December 6th.  It’s held in Sweetland Hall and the Guild Room right at the church, so you won’t have to worry about parking, which is a blessing in and of itself.  Are you with me so far?  Good.
     
As you enter, you will be greeted by smiling volunteers who will answer any questions you might have. There are vendors selling items in Sweetland Hall, but these are quality items and anything you spend with these vendors goes to help their organization.  It’s all good.  
     
But there is something else that each of these vendors has at his/her table:  chits, with which you can donate money for certain non-material things offered by each organization.  These offerings are shown in the Alternative Christmas Market catalog, which is online at the All Saints website.  In it there are such offerings as The Women’s Room, right here in Pasadena, where you can donate some money to help women who have nowhere to go get shelter and a hot meal, or get their laundry done.  With Get on the Bus you can help kids visit their parents who are in jail.  Or, if you’d like to help someone in faraway Africa, you can get a herd of goats (or maybe just one) for a village there.  You can either buy the whole enchilada (e.g., a goat), or, if you can’t afford it, a “share” of a goat, which, when combined with other purchased “shares,” will send a goat to that village that needs it.  The value of giving your hard-earned money to someone who has less than you is sure to make you see the true meaning of Christmas: bringing joy to those who have so little. Simply decide which organization you’d like to help, fill out the applicable chit, and bring it to the Cashiers in the Guild Room.  But you’re not through yet.
     
Once you’ve paid, you can go to the “card table,” to obtain cards to give to people to let them know you’ve made a donation in their name to a certain organization.  See?  Even the Christmas cards are covered.  What could be more simple?  
     
There will be 23 vendors this year.  Please come and show your support for those who need it.  You are blessed; you just don’t know it. Visit our website for a sample catalogue www.allsaints-pas.org...