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, August 19, 2018

~Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 15-Year B.

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

~9:30 AM – Adult Forum in Guild Room.

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

Your Sunday’s Weekly Reflection

A Note on Today’s Readings Proper 15—Year B

Welcome to our All Saints’ Parish! Jesus’ discourse on the bread of life continues to be the center of our liturgy, as it has been now for several weeks. Jesus has met physical hunger by providing material bread (a primary Old Testament sign of salvation); he has said that a spiritual (or mystical) relationship with him constitutes the bread of eternal life; now he says that nourishment with his life is given by actually eating his flesh and drinking his blood. If we eat his body and drink his blood, we will have eternal life.

In the first reading, God’s Wisdom is personified as a hostess inviting us to eat her food and drink her wine, thereby receiving her into our lives. Early Christians understood Jesus as the incarnation of God’s Wisdom. This is, therefore, a passage that has been seen by Christians as an Old Testament prefiguring of our Savior who calling us into new life by becoming one with him sacramentally.

The second reading is once again from the letter to the Ephesians. We are exhorted to let God’s Spirit inebriate us and speak through us in thanksgiving and song.

“People with a story to tell and a song to sing” is a way Christians have been described. It is preeminently in liturgy that we carry out that role. We gather here to be fed physically, spiritually, and sacramentally. Our response is to give thanks (the word “eucharist” means “thanksgiving”) and, having told our story and sung our song here, to take it out to our brothers and sisters in the world.