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All Saints’ Anglican Weekly News
Advent Edition
The News in a Nutshell
· The New Website– Is Up and Running (asgville.com)
· Upcoming Events
-Christmas Dinner- Next Sunday December 19th
-Christmas Eve Service- December 24 at 7pm
· Christmas Poinsettias– Memorial & Thanksgivings
· 2022 Liturgical Calendars– Are In
· Advent– What and Why
· Episcopal Election– Feb 26th
· Online Sermon Notes and Audio– LINK
· Live Streaming Service– FYI
· Online Giving Options– Now Available
For more information see the full announcements below
The New Website- Is Up and Running (asgville.com)
The brand new All Saints Website is up and running. You can view the new site at asgville.com (Link).
Note: if you previously bookmarked our old webpage you need to update the new address to just asgville.com (not the old address- asgville.com/phb)
Upcoming Events
– Christmas Dinner- Sunday December 19th
Our All Saints Annual Christmas Dinner will be on Dec. 19th following church. The food sign-up sheet is on the information table in the Parish hall or you can call Bobbi Killinger and let her know what you would like to bring. The church is providing the meat so only side dishes and desserts are needed
– Christmas Eve Service- December 24 at 7pm
Our Christmas/Christmas Eve service will be 7:00pm Friday, Dec 24th. Please join us as we celebrate the birth of our Lord and Savior. As always, be sure to invite a friend!
!!!Christmas Poinsettias!!!
One of our very special All Saints’ traditions is the Christmas Poinsettia. During the Christmas season, Poinsettias are donated to the church as a Memorial for a loved one or as Thanksgiving for a special person or blessing that God has given you. The Poinsettias will be used during the Christmas Season to decorate the church.
If you would like to donate a Poinsettia, please complete the form and turn it in to the Church. The price of each poinsettia is $15.00. Make your check out to All Saints’ Church with “Poinsettias” written on the memo line and then drop it in the offering plate.
Poinsettia forms are available:
· On our new web page. Simply fill out the form online and then hit “submit”.
You will find the form here: LINK
· In the 1st attachment to this newsletter.
2022 Liturgical Calendars- Are In
The liturgical calendars for 2022 are in. You may pick one up in the in the parish hall on the church information table. The cost is $5.00
The calendar shows the liturgical color for each season, the major celebrations, as well as the saint or martyr commemorated on any given day. As such, you can use the calendar as an important aspect of your devotional life. You can read about a particular saint on the day they are remembered and reflect upon their example (see the “Lives of the Saints” feature on our web page). You will be alerted to important events in the church year (such as the Transfiguration) and can use the collect and readings found in the Prayer Book for that day in your own devotional time.
Another good resource to use in conjunction with the calendar is Omer Englebert’s book, Lives of the Saints which follows along chronologically through each day of the month giving a well-balanced description of the particular Saints and their ministries being remembered on that day. You can find a copy here for a very reasonable price: LINK
Regardless, the liturgical calendar is a wonderful devotional tool and one that I recommend to each family in the church.
Advent- What and Why
This Sunday is the first Sunday in Advent. As you all probably already know, Advent is a time in which we prepare ourselves to celebrate Christ’s birth. Unfortunately, too often we get caught up in the rat race of Christmas shopping, holiday traffic, and party preparations. Therefore, I would like to encourage you to make use of the many different resources that our church provides to help you stay focused and come to the nativity of our Lord truly prepared to worship and celebrate.
One of these resources is the liturgical color of the season. As you enter the church, the color violet reminds you of the way you are to prepare during Advent. Violet is the color of repentance. As such, you are reminded that Advent is a time of sober reflection in which you recall your need for our Savior as well as God’s amazing mercy in sending Him. Violet is also the color of humility. Not only does it remind you of Christ’s humility in becoming man and being born in a lowly manger, it also reminds you of your own humility. Therefore, Advent is traditionally a time of humble prayer. Thus, I encourage you to consider setting aside a specific time in the week as a special time of prayer.
Regardless of how you chose to prepare, I hope you will keep violet in mind, look for it as you shop or drive around town and let it be a quiet reminder to you of the way you, as God’s child, are to approach this holiday season. This Advent, think Violet.
Another resource that I encourage you to use is the morning and evening prayer services offered on our web page (see this week’s web feature below). Set aside a moment each day (or as often as you can during the week) to go through one of these offices. I recommend the short versions of Morning and Evening Prayer. Both are very rewarding.
It is my conviction, that if you will make use of these and the other resources our church provides, that you will find this Christmas to be a rich and spiritually rewarding time for you and your family.
Episcopal Election- February 26th
The Diocese of the Southeast will meet in a special called meeting of synod to elect our Bishop Coadjutor (who will assist Bishop White until Bishop White retires, and then he will become the Bishop of the Diocese)
The meeting will be held at 10AM on Saturday, February 26th at Nazareth Church, Pinopolis (Moncks Corner) SC.
The two candidates are:
The Rev. Willie J. Hill, Jr., Rector of St. John’s Church, Charleston
The Rev. Kenneth G. Shaw, Vicar of Christ Church, John’s Island
Please keep this process in your prayers and ask that God will guide us to the Bishop He has already selected.
Online Sermon Notes and Audio- LINK
Our weekly sermon notes and audio are now available on our new All Saints website. You can find this week’s sermon here: LINK
New Website- Is Up (asgville.com)
The brand new All Saints Website is up and running. You can view the new site at asgville.com (Link).
Note: if you previously bookmarked our old webpage you need to update the new address to just asgville.com (not the old address- asgville.com/phb)
Live Streaming Service- FYI
Our live streaming services will begin at 10:25 with prelude music. This will give folks time to tune in, get settled, and prepare their hearts for worship
The service itself will begin at 10:30
The Service can be viewed:
1) On a smart TV, streaming device, computer, or phone- by going to our church’s new YouTube channel. You can find the channel here: LINK
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From within the YouTube app, you can search “All Saints Anglican Church Greenville SC”
Remember to “subscribe” to the channel in order to save it and thus avoid having to use links and searches each time
2) You can also view the live service on our All Saints Webpage. Here is the LINK:
3) To easily view a recording of this week’s service at a later time, go to our YouTube channel and you will find all our past services listed there. The most recent service will be the first one on the list.
Online Giving- Now Available
We have integrated a secure online giving option so that you can securely tithe online. You can even set a recurring gift so that you don’t have to go through the process each time you give. There are three ways you can make use of this option:
1. You can give by clicking on the following “Link”. Click and then follow the easy instruction. Here is the LINK
2. You can download the free App from either the Iphone App Store (LINK) or from the Android Google Play Store (LINK). Download the app and then follow the simple set up instructions.
How can we pray for you?
If you have any special prayer needs or praise reports that you would like to share with the group, feel free to email them to me (or you can call me if you prefer) and I will be glad to include them in our weekly newsletter.
Prayer Requests
For those in the neighborhood surrounding the church
For the Master’s 12 year old daughter- who is very sick after returning from the mission field
For Leslie Grant- who has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer
For Mac Parks for His health concerns
For Mei-li’s Aunt who has had an aneurism
For Lisa Wallis for her health concerns
For Blythe for her health concerns
For Jason Sterling’s mother- Jason is Fr. Charlie’s brother-in-law and his mother has been diagnosed with cancer
Betty and Ray Froman- for health concerns
Pat Childers- for continued strength, health and recovery
All those serving in our armed forces, especially Matthew Orders, Eden Basinger, Devin Willis, Anna Conover, and Samantha Childers Leamy
Our deepest Christian sympathy– is extended to the Parks Family over the loss of their sister-in-law, Leslie Grant this past week to Cancer
Our deepest Christian sympathy- is extended to the Sloan Family over the loss of Jay’s sister this past week.
Please keep both the Parks and Sloans in your prayers
~Dates to Remember
Please, email your events to Fr. Charlie with a brief description. Your description should include: date, time, location, cost, as well as the name of the parishioner participating in the event (when applicable).
Episcopal Election Saturday, February 26, 10am, Nazareth Church, Pinopolis, Moncks Corner
Annual Episcopal Visit March 20, 2022
Diocesan Synod Sept 16-17th, 2022
Redeemer Church,
Pineville, SC