Christian Formation

The purpose of All Saints Church is to celebrate God’s love, to seek and to serve Christ in all persons, and to go forth into the world rejoicing in the power of the Spirit. Your presence is a blessing regardless of your background, sexual orientation, gender identity, race or ethnicity, age or family structure, abilities or limitations or wherever you are in life’s journey.

Christian Formation Committee

Christian Formation in the Episcopal Church is lifelong growth in the knowledge, service and love of God as followers of Christ and is informed by Scripture, Tradition and Reason. Through the year All Saints schedules classes, workshops, and youth events that provide a deepening of Christian faith and fellowship. For additional information about Christian Formation please contact Miriam Lain through the Church Office at 503-777-3829.

Baptism & Confirmation Preparation

Through the guidance and direction of the Rector, Baptism and Confirmation Preparation classes are held during the year as needed for those wishing to be baptized into our congregation and those wishing to be confirmed into the full membership of All Saints Episcopal Church. If you are interested in Baptism for yourself or others, please …

Bible Day Camp

Every summer, All Saints Episcopal Church together with several other SE Portland churches, jointly hosts Bible Day Camp giving young people the opportunity to come together for a week of fun, worship, and activities. For more information on Bible Day Camp, please contact our Church Office at 503-777-3829.

Children’s Ministry – Church Sunday School

Children’s Ministry- Church Sunday School Children are an integral part of the life and community at All Saints Episcopal Church. Children are always welcome to participate in the services at All Saints. Christ welcomed children who wiggle and giggle and so do we. All Saints has two Church School classes, one for Preschool-aged children to …

Parish Library

Visitors to our library will find a cozy little spot to read, to research, and a quiet place to just hang out and meditate. It is also a place to meet for quiet conversation. The bookcases are full of so many books to feed the soul and answers questions about Church History, the Bible, the …

Pastoral Care

Pastoral Care and Healing Ministry involves specially trained parishioners that take food to those having to be confined to their home and includes illness, hospital and long-term care visits, bringing Holy Eucharist to those not able to join the parishioners at church and providing support in times of need. Should there be a need …

Tuesday Morning Bible Study

Tuesday Morning Bible Study meets together for the study of God’s word. As we finish one book of the Bible, members make suggestions about which one to take up next. Each member brings her own Bible, and we do not specify a certain version. Instead, we have found it helpful that we can compare translations, which …

Youth Ministry

All Saints Youth Ministries: Growing through Worship, Service, Fellowship and Formation All Saints Youth ministries serve the members of our congregation in grades 6-12. Using the Episcopal Journey to Adulthood program, we gather weekly for fellowship and faith formation. We gather all together to serve in our various ministries to the church and the world- serving …

This Sunday, October 21, 2018

~Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 24-Year B.

~8:00 AM – Holy Eucharist, Rite I in the Chapel.

~9:30 AM – Chancel Choir Rehearsal in the Chancel.

~9:30 AM – Informal Adult Forum in the Guild Room.

~10:15 AM – Holy Eucharist, Rite II in the Main Sanctuary.

~11:45 AM – Family Choir Rehearsal in the Chancel.

~4:00 PM – Youth Group.

Your Sunday’s Weekly Reflection

A Note on Today’s Readings Proper 24—Year B

Welcome to our All Saints’ Parish! The liturgy today centers on two themes of the Christian message about Jesus. Both are found in today’s Gospel: Jesus’ messiahship is revealed not in his power but in his life of serving others and his suffering and death, and he calls us to a like ministry of self-giving love.

The Old Testament reading is one of Isaiah’s poems of the suffering servant of God. In this passage, from about the sixth century B.C., the growing understanding of suffering as redemptive—implied by the Hebrew Scriptures in the stories of Moses and David, among others—is given its fullest expression. God is intimately involved in the suffering of his faithful servants and gives that suffering redemptive value when it is offered in obedience for the redemption of God’s people. This passage, of course, was understood by the earliest Christians as foretelling Jesus’ death and resurrection.

Today’s passage from the Epistle to the Hebrews expresses the redemptive suffering of Christ as his eternal priestly sacrifice, which replaces the sacrifices of the temple. We are assured that our own suffering and our own self-giving ministry receive redemptive value by virtue of our baptismal union with Jesus’ own sacrifice.

We, the people of God, gather to celebrate the Eucharist, which is one aspect of our work. In song, story, Word, and Sacrament, the dying and rising of Jesus and his ministry to us are revealed and made present. We become sharers in his life by our participation, and are prepared and enabled to carry out the other aspect of our work in sacrificial, servant ministry to others.