All Saints’ 2013 Fine Arts and Craft Faire has already begun receiving registrations from local artisans. As in the past, the event features over thirty vendors who bring handmade crafts, jewelry, and original pieces of art to sell–just in time for Christmas.
The Craft Fair began back in 1999 and raises funds for All Saints’ ministries, missions, and operating budget.
Eucharistic Visitor training for the Monterey Deanery will take place at All Saints’ on October 1, 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. in the church. Please contact your congregational clergy if you are interested in becoming a Lay Eucharistic Visitor, then register with Ann Wright at annwright6@comcast.net.
A Lay Eucharistic Visitor is an individual licensed by the diocese to distribute the communion host and wine that has already been blessed by the clergy. Lay Eucharistic Visitors are then assigned to take communion to persons who are unable to attend our regular worship services, such as shut-ins or people recovering from illness in hospitals. The bread and wine they carry act as a symbol of the unity of Christ’s Body, which transcends boundaries of time and space, providing a sense of connection to persons who might otherwise feel isolated.
Priest/Deacon: I send you forth bearing these gifts for (name of person), that s/he may share with us in this Sacrament of Holy Communion.
People: We who are many are one body, for we all share one bread, one cup.
For more information, click here.
An Episcopal Marriage Encounter weekend can help you strengthen your marriage.
Each Encounter is a forty-four-hour experience where married couples can get away from jobs, kids, chores, and phones – and focus on each other. If you’d like greater depth, growth, and enrichment in your relationship, you’ll like the difference an Episcopal Marriage Encounter weekend can make! The next local weekend is October 18-20. You may register for the weekend online at www.episcopalme.com, and select “Bay Area”. For more information, please contact Curt & Arlene McClelland, 408-371-5581 or curt@sbcglobal.net.
Registration is limited, so a quick response is encouraged.
Exclusion and Embrace—Living in Community
The Festival of Christian Spirituality offers a weekend of joyful renewal and spiritual refreshment. We will undertake various spiritual exercises, such as Christian yoga, prayer walks, praying with icons, meditating on Holy Scripture, and using poetry as prayer. Through the Benedictine practice of conversatio we will seek to discern Gospel responses to one of the most pressing issues of our time: exclusion and embrace. One of last year’s festival participants said that conversatio is “life-giving.”
We pray that you will return home from the festival weekend refreshed by God’s grace and
inspired to live out the Gospel in new ways. We encourage you to explore our website for
further information. You may register through the church (831-624-3883) or on our website.
Please see the flyer for more details.
Building on eight seasons of talent and tradition, All Saints’ will offer Bach to the Future in the summer of 2013. The two one-week sessions offer music and fun for children in kindergarten through the sixth grade. Each session will include plenty of singing and music-making, drawing, and dancing. The children will also explore history and languages, and interact with singers and instrumentalists from the Carmel Bach Festival!
For more information, see the All Saints’, Carmel, website.
Come and enjoy the Santa Lucia Campground with the Big Sur River running through it! We are located next door to the River Inn. Meet new spiritual friends and learn new ways to grow deeper into your Christian journey. Enjoy our outdoor chapel, the smell of breakfast in the outdoors, and evening barbecue with singing around the fire. Tent camping is available on site. You can also commute (a 35-minute drive south) from the Monterey Peninsula. Some housing is available for out-of-town guests. The Festival begins at 1:00 p.m. on Friday, June 7, and ends after a Communion Service and lunch on Saturday, June 9. The $245 fee includes all meals, the program and its presenters, camping, quiet time to hear the water running off the rocks, and laughter to raise your spirits. Stay on Sunday afternoon for jazz, horseback riding at the beach, hiking, or a possible tour of Point Sur Lighthouse.
See here for more information on the Festivals of Christian Spirituality.
One in five Monterey County residents needs food assistance. To help answer this need, the All Saints’, Carmel, Outreach Commission will conduct the second annual Small Bites for Big Hunger on Friday, May 3, 2013, from 5:30 to 8:00 p.m. in Seccombe Hall. Click here for more information.
Orchestra in the Schools Spring Concert
Monday, May 6, 2013
5:30pm
All Saints’ Church
Music at All Saints’ presents: Balázs Szokolay on May 17, 2013. For more information, click here.