THE TWENTY-THIRD & TWENTY-FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST: NOVEMBER 8 & NOVEMBER 15, The Rev. Paul J. Stephens Rector

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1 The Rev. Paul J. Stephens Rector 608 Jefferson Street Tupelo, MS (662) Fax THE TWENTY-THIRD & TWENTY-FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST: NOVEMBER 8 & NOVEMBER 15, 2009 CALENDAR CALENDAR SUNDAY-NOVEMBER 8 8:30 am Holy Eucharist* (Church) 9:30 am Christian Formation* 9:30 am Coffee Alley 10:30 am Holy Eucharist* 4:00 pm Catechesis Workday 5:00 pm Capital Campaign Executive Cmt. (South B-O Rm.) 5:30 pm Jr. EYC 5:30 pm Sr. EYC 6:30 pm AA Group SUNDAY-NOVEMBER 15 8:30 am Holy Eucharist* 9:30 am Christian Formation* 9:30 am Coffee Alley 10:30 am Holy Eucharist* 5:00 pm Capital Campaign Executive Cmt. (North B-O Rm.) 5:30 pm EYC 6:30 pm AA Group MONDAY-NOVEMBER 16 12:00 pm Intercessory Prayer 5:30 pm Stewardship Cmt. (Conference Rm.) 6:30 pm Mill Village (Parish Hall) MONDAY-NOVEMBER 9 12:00 pm Intercessory Prayer 6:30 pm Vestry TUESDAY-NOVEMBER 10 6:45 am EYC Prayer B fast 5:30 pm AA Group WEDNESDAY-NOVEMBER 11 12:05 pm Holy Eucharist w/anointing (Chapel) 5:30 pm Wednesday Night Supper/Program/ Children s Choirs* 6:00 pm EfM (Conf. Rm) 7:00 pm Adult Choir THURSDAY-NOVEMBER 12 NEWSLETTER DEADLINE 9:30 pm Staff Meeting 5:00 pm Servant Ministry FRIDAY-NOVEMBER 13 8:00 am Centering Prayer SATURDAY-NOVEMBER 14 10:00 am 4:00 pm PPS-PLI Graduation TUESDAY-NOVEMBER 17 6:45 am EYC Prayer B fast 5:15 pm ECW* (Parish Hall) 5:30 pm AA Group WEDNESDAY-NOVEMBER 18 NEWSLETTER MAILOUT 12:05 pm Holy Eucharist w/anointing (Chapel) 5:30 pm Wednesday night Supper/Program/ Children s Choirs* 6:00 pm EfM (Conf. Rm.) 7:00 pm Adult Choir THURSDAY-NOVEMBER 19 9:30 am Staff Meeting FRIDAY-NOVEMBER 20 EYC Fall Outreach Trip to Sewanee, TN 24 th ) 8:00 am Centering Prayer SATURDAY-NOVEMBER 21 9:00 10:30 am Angel Food Ministries Food Distribution Registration is now underway! We know you ll want to attend! Registration forms are available in the church office or on our website Registration fee for members of All Saints and the Tombigbee Convocation is $35 (excluding clergy, delegates and alternates). See page 2 for more details! *Nursery Provided

2 FROM THE OFFICE For more information visit our website at PHOTO DATES/TIMES: Tuesday, November 3 3:00 8:00 p.m. Wednesday, November 4 3:00 6:00 p.m. Thursday, November 5 3:00 8:00 p.m. This directory will be produced by Nathan Duncan Marketing & Professional Portrait Services. You will receive a color 8x10 photo of the pose of your choice and a pictorial directory. Additional pictures will be available for purchase and delivered by the end of November in time for Christmas! There will be a $10 sitting fee (due at the time of your appointment), to cover the cost of publishing the directory. There are several opportunities left to be a part of this directory. We hope everyone will participate! Call the church office at to schedule a time. The directory will not be complete without YOU! All Saints and our friends in the Tombigbee Convocation will host the Diocese of Mississippi s 183 rd Annual Council, February 5-7, 2010 at the BancorpSouth Arena!! As we are expecting over 1,000(!) people to attend, it will take many hands to host our guests for the weekend. How can you help?? Decorations/Flowers - at the arena Council office assistance - making copies, light office work Greeters - to welcome and help our guests find their way around the arena. Hospitality - servers, set-up, clean-up and provide desserts for the Saturday night dinner. Elections - counting ballots during the voting process. Registration - assist in signing in the delegates, alternates, clergy and others. Logistics - strong arms and backs needed to help move furniture and supplies and to set-up the business space and the worship space at the arena. Ushers - to distribute bulletins and assist with communion at the Sunday morning worship service. In addition, that same weekend, we will also host the Youth Lock-In for the diocese at All Saints which means we ll need volunteers to provide snacks for our younger guests! Sign up sheets for all of these areas are located in the Parish Hall lobby. For more information, please call Vicky Vance or David Sparks, Council Co-Chairs. We d like to thank Tom Robinson and Robinson & Associates for sharing their time and talents to design our Annual Council logo, The Challenge of Mission. We d also like to thank Buddy Vance and J.E. Vance & Co. for their donation of postage for the registration mailing for Council.

3 THE PASTOR S PAGE Kickoff Celebration Update - About 140 parishioners gathered in the Parish Hall on All Saints Day evening to enjoy a festive time with our parish family, to reflect on our life together and hear about campaign progress. Decorated in a harvest theme courtesy of Virginia Chambers and Carol Alvis, the Parish Hall was the perfect venue for the occasion, and Romie s catering served up a winner for all attendees with delightful fare and plenty of libation to go around. Following personal reflections by Deanna Alford and Albert White, Lloyd Gray highlighted our needs to meet an increased operating budget and service our building loan. Advance Gifts Chair David Sparks reported $929,320 had already been pledged to the campaign from 34 families and individuals! He stated our challenge as seeing how far beyond our need of $1,250,000 we can go. Campaign Chair Cathy Fitzpatrick asked that members pray, volunteer and participate by giving sacrificially to All Saints. Master of Ceremonies Wayne Slocum kept the evening rolling with his Cajun humor. Expanded coverage of the Kickoff Celebration will be included in the next Campaign Newsletter, arriving soon at a mailbox near you! Upcoming Events - A Day of Prayer, centering on stewardship and the effort currently underway at All Saints, is slated for Saturday, November 14 and a Commissioning Sunday is set for the following day. Campaign volunteers will be recognized and commissioned at each worship service. Pictured above are the family and godparents of the 9 children who were baptized on All Saints Day, November 1. Congratulations to (in alphabetical order): Alexander Crowe, Bradley Crowe, Connor Crowe, Walsh Driskell, Wiley Reddick, Indiana Sistrunk, Austin Strickland, James Strickland and Ronald Strickland.

4 PARISH MINISTRIES We hope to collect a ton of food (literally) which will be delivered to a local charity the weekend before Thanksgiving. Please bring canned goods or nonperishable food items to the Parish Hall Lobby on Sunday mornings or Wednesday nights. November 4 & 11 Sonny Mason will offer a presentation on creating sacred space November 18 A Ton of Food for a Hungry Community Campaign concludes. Please bring nonperishable food items or canned goods to the Parish Hall Lobby. Children s Choir for 3 year olds 3 rd grade. Youth Handbell Choir 4 th grade & up A nursery is provided for younger children ANGEL FOOD MINISTRIES 136 boxes were distributed in October! PLACE YOUR ORDER SATURDAY, November 7 10:00 a.m. Noon or you can place your order online at: DISTRIBUTION DAY SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21 9:00 10:30 a.m. We need volunteers to help take orders (2 Saturdays per month) and to help with distribution (one Saturday per month). A sign up sheet is located in the back of the church. A nursery will be made available to those volunteers that call ahead to either Mandy Atkins or Kasey McFate.

5 PARISH MINISTRIES SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14 All Saints Day of Prayer In the Chapel Saturday, November 14, has been designated as All Saints Day of Prayer for the long range vision, mission and future of the church, as well as our stewardship and capital campaigns. Meditation materials will be provided or you may bring your own. We have openings available from 7:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. We d like to have at least 2 people per time slot. Sign up sheets are available in the church on Sundays and in the office during the week. I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to GIVE. I am afraid the only safe rule is to GIVE more than we can spare. C.S. Lewis We appreciate all of our volunteers who are stepping up to help with this ministry. We really depend on YOU for donations of food items such as sugar, coffee, creamer, fruit, and Sunny D juice. Thank you, people of All Saints, for your continued support of this ministry. Please remember Saints Brew for your monetary gifts, memorials and honorariums. The next ECW meeting will be TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17 at 5:15 p.m. in the Parish Hall. All women of the church are encouraged to attend.

6 CHRISTIAN FORMATION We are continuing to move toward our goal of opening a Catechesis of the Good Shepherd Level III atrium in January, 2010 for our children ages As there are still many materials to be made for this level, we have scheduled a work session in the Level III atrium for Sunday, November 8 at 4:00 p.m. You don t have to be a master craftsman or artist to help! Even if you think you don t have any skills to offer, we have jobs that anyone can help with! Kamme Riddle and Mary Howard King will have all the needed materials along with detailed materials descriptions, so please join us in this effort. The Faith Club: a Muslim, a Christian, a Jew Three women search for Understanding by Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, and Priscilla Warner. The women voice opinions and thoughts that we all have or are exposed to, but would never consider safe to speak about in so doing they demonstrate that it is precisely in speaking the unspeakable with an attitude of humility and listening in an undefended posture that a way forward can be found. The Rt. Rev. Catherine S. Roskam, Bishop Suffragan of the Episcopal Diocese of New York. Gift of Kaye Cannon. (Shelved 201.5/Idl) Thanks to our Vestry and the savvy shopping skills of Mary Howard King, the EYC room is now home to a wonderful, homey set of comfortable furniture. This project has been in the works since the building construction s completion, and we re so grateful to have such a wonderful space to be together. Thank you All Saints! The EYC will be taking its annual fall outreach trip November This year, we ll be traveling to Sewanee, TN for a weekend in God s beautiful creation. We re especially excited because we ve never taken a trip of this kind before as a group, and we hope that the beauty surrounding us and the physical challenges we meet on the Mountain will bring us closer than ever before to God and each other. We ll be hosted by the Fire on the Mountain EYC group there and will get the opportunity to do some hiking, rappelling, and spelunking! The deadline for commitment to this trip (by turning in permission slips) is Wednesday, November 11. Forms will be distributed in the mail, and can also be found on the EYC webpage. Ann Marie Schott, Sr. EYC Director

7 ALL SAINTS FAMILY November 8 November 11 November 9 November 10 November 11 November 13 November 15 November 18 November 20 Robin & Billy Walton Kim & David Sistrunk Sam Morgan Mark Whipps Richard Brown Margaret Barshaw Sally Gray Lee Parks Anna Grace Alexander Pamela Cox Joseph Whipps David Hastings For: Cully Randall From: Fran Shutiok, Pat & George Bobo, Fred Bush, Virginia & Bill Mathews, Betty Lee Marshall For: Jim Nelson From: Pat & George Bobo For: Pete & Angie Poland From: Virginia & Bill Mathews For: Angie Poland From: Fredda & Tom Robinson Our Love and Sympathy to: Bud Nelson and his family on the death of his father, Jim Nelson and Betty Champion on the death of her brother, W. G. Barner. Rest eternal grant to them, O Lord, and let Light perpetual shine upon them. Dear All Saints Family, Thank you all so very much for the lovely plant in memory of my mother. Paul and I both have been so blessed by each of you in ways you will never know. I especially thank you for your prayers, phone calls, s, cards and food. You have held me up during one of the most difficult times of my life. Bless you, one and all! Faithfully, Martha A Letter of Transfer Has been received for Cliff and Mid Brock from Church of the Epiphany in Flagstaff, Arizona and St. John s in Bainbridge, Georgia. We welcome them into the fellowship of All Saints For: Hettyola Harrell (in honor of her birthday) From: Fran Shutiok For: Karen Asbury From: Yvette Slocum & Amanda Westmoreland GIFTS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED FOR SAINTS BREW From: Martha Kessinger Ginna Parsons CONGRATULATIONS TO THOSE WHO RECEIVED THE SACRAMENT OF HOLY BAPTISM ON ALL SAINTS DAY: Connor Reed Crowe Bradley Wayne Crowe Alexander James Crowe Walsh Mitchell Driskell Wiley Rowe Reddick Indiana Green Sistrunk Austin Zeek Strickland James Douglas Strickland Ronald Wayne Strickland (Taken from the pew cards placed in the alms basin on Sunday.) For: All our friends at All Saints The deadline for submitting information for the next newsletter is Thursday, November 12, at 12:00 p. m.

8 NON-PROFIT ORG. U.S. POSTAGE PAID PERMIT NO. 250 TUPELO, MS 608 Jefferson Street, Tupelo, MS (662) Fax (662) Return Service Requested ALL SAINTS MISSION STATEMENT: To equip ourselves for Christ s service by gathering for worship, fellowship, prayer, and study; To minister to and support each other, and to welcome all who walk through our doors; To act as responsible stewards of God s gifts to us; And to do God s work in the world by seeking and serving Christ in all persons. LOOK WHAT S COMING UP! Advent II December 6 Advent Lessons & Carols The All Saints Choir & The St. Paul s Choir, Columbus at All Saints A reception will follow Friday, December 11 Advent Wine & Cheese at the home of Pamela Cox Advent II December 13 Advent Lessons & Carols The All Saints Choir & The St. Paul s Choir, Columbus at St. Paul s, Columbus