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A reminder that All Saints’ Annual Parish Meeting is this Sunday, February 27th during the 10:00 service. We will review the momentous past year and the financial budget for this coming year.
And we have a special guest: The Rev. Canon Roy Hoffman will be visiting us from the Diocesan Office to share about the Rector Search Process.

If you have not accessed 2021’s Annual Reports, click on the link below and make plans to join your fellow parishioners on the 27th .
For many of us, the “wilderness” may seem a foreboding place – strange, inhospitable, uncomfortable, even dangerous – and the idea of intentionally seeking out the wilderness none too attractive. And while the wilderness can be foreboding, it is also a place teaming with life and the potential for learning and growth. Many spiritual giants deliberately sought out the wilderness – Moses, Elijah, John the Baptist, St. Paul, St. Francis, not to mention Jesus – and were rewarded with powerful, personal encounters with God.
The Church calendar offers us, in the season of Lent, an annual journey in the wilderness, that we might personally encounter God anew through self inspection, self denial, with added disciplines of study, service, and worship.
Often the faithful take on one or more of three disciplines: 1) giving up something for Lent, 2) taking on something for Lent, and 3) making time for additional worship opportunities. However one approaches Lent, the season intends that we create a space in our lives, a wilderness where we might see more clearly,
hear more clearly, think and feel more clearly about our lives and our relationship with God. And as in a physical journey, the goal is to find ourselves at a different place from where we started.
Along the route of Lent’s journey, the Church provides many offerings to assist us through the wilderness – Ash Wednesday, Sunday worship, Monday Healing Service, Wednesday Lenten Program, Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday. So that while Lent is a personal journey, you are not expected go through the wilderness alone, without support.
Resolve to make a journey through the wilderness this Lent. Clear aspace in your life for you and God to walk together. Expect God to bless your journey and know that you will come away from this Lent with a whole new
appreciation for the wilderness.
Fr Tom
FORMATION FOR THE THIRD SUNDAY OF THE MONTH:
FORMATION:
Children & Youth Formation Sunday, February 27 9:00 - 9:45 a.m.
Grades (3-12) will meet in Baines Hall this Sunday to finish our look at LOVE.
Adult Forum will meet in the Library @ 9:00 to finish The Church Cracked Open and decide on our next steps.
UPCOMING EVENTS
INTERGENERATIONAL EVENT, Sunday, March 6 9:00 – 9:45 a.m.
We will explore Lent: what it means, and things we can do on this 40-day journey. We will discuss the labyrinth and how to experience it during Lent. Please plan to join us as we begin this meaningful time in our church life.
All Saints’ will host a Great Neck Community Event with Rise Against Hunger to prepare 20,000+ meals AND collect non-perishable food items for our local area Food Pantries on
Saturday, March 19, 2022. Register yourself or your entire family to volunteer through the link below for this fun, family-inclusive event! A nursery for those under 4 years of age will be available. Our fundraising goal is $7,000. Donate what you can! Don’t miss out, sign up now! If you have any questions, please email Nan Kesler at nan.kesler@gmail.com.
The Great Neck Community Event on March 19th hosted by All Saints’ will have a nursery from noon-4pm for children 4 years and younger. Marlene will run the nursery but we need volunteers to help her out!! You need to have completed Safe Church Training to volunteer. Please contact Kelly in the church office and she will help you sign up for the training if needed. To volunteer in the nursery for one, two or all four hours, please sign up on the sheet located in the Narthex.
Volunteers Needed to deliver Non-perishable Food collected by the March 19th Great Neck Community Event to Local Food Pantries. If you cannot participate in the event, please consider opening your “hearts and car trunks” to deliver food! We’ll load you up after 4 pm on March 19th or after church services on March 20th. Please sign up on the volunteer sheet located in the Narthex or email Nan Kesler at Nan.kesler@gmail.com.
AUDIO VISUAL VOLUNTEERS - COME BE PART OF THE TEAM!
HELLO! As you all know we are off and running with the live stream. It is a work in progress, but nonetheless, we are doing it. A while ago we made a call out for anyone that would be interested in learning how to do this so we will have backups and people will have the opportunity to run the sound or the video. Next month we would like to begin training. SO can you please respond to this email if you are interested in learning how to help on Sunday Mornings with your name and phone number. I will put together a few training sessions. I ENCOURAGE the amazing kids in our family to also volunteer- so it is an open call to adults and kids alike! THANKS!
What's Happening at All Saints'
Annual Meeting – Sunday, February 27 th during 10:00 service
23rd - 27th Annual Council via ZOOM See DioSoVa Website for details.
Full Circle Meal Prep – Thursday February 24
Thursday February 24th @7:00 Hybrid Zoom Parish Life Meeting in Baines Hall. Fr. Tim will Issue ZOOM invite. Deciding on Shrove Tuesday.
Shrove Tuesday, March 1 st – Pancake Supper (details coming)
Ash Wednesday, March 2 nd – Ash Wednesday services at 10:00 am and 7:00 pm
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