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Notice To All Saints Parishioners and Visitors Please Do Not Park On Meeting Street. Not only is it a hazard, it is also against Town Hall and Fire Department regulations. Meeting Street is designed for two-way traffic and must be kept clear, especially for emergency vehicles like fire engines and ambulances! Thanking you in advance for your cooperation in this all important safety matter!

Sunday Mornings our parking lots can get pretty full. In order to give a little preference to our visitor-guests, there are several designated ‘visitor parking spots’. We ask that our “regulars” not use these spots. We do have room for all!

Sunday

We are happy you are here this morning and hope that you are touched by the peace of Christ through worship with us.

Adult Christian Education Sunday Mornings at 9 o’clock During February two tracts will be offered on Sundays February 5, 12, 19.

Feb 5	Sandy Grant: Spiritual Practices: What are they? What good do they do?	The Resurrection - Jim Moore Resurrection and the Theological Disciplines
12		Mid Twentieth Century Theology and a New Understanding
19		Comparative and Adopted Understandings of Resurrection
26	Sandy Grant: What is God really like? Wrathful? (Micah 6:9) Loving? (1 John 4:8)
Mar 4
11	A Holy Week Primer	Palm Sunday - Mark Brinkmann
18		Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday - Rick Lindsey
25		Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday - Rick Lindsey & Mark Brinkman

The programs will be held in the parish hall and library and all are welcome! Coffee will be available!

Sunday Morning- February 5 - A Tour of the Church Visitors, new members, and even "established" members are invited to take a full and interesting tour of All Saints. Did you know there are 5 sets of restrooms, and do you know where they all are? That and much more about the operation of the church and life behind the scenes will be yours to discover, with Sara Hall as your guide. We'll gather at the outside door of Gordon Mann Hall promptly at 11:45. Time for a quick cup of coffee, a bite to eat, and meet Sara at the door. See you there!

Children’s Sunday School meets in the Prayer Room adjacent to the parish hall at 10am then proceeds to the Sunday School classroom upstairs in the parish house, and return to their families during The Peace.

Children’s ‘Quiet’ Play Bags, for use during the service, are located in the wicker basket on the bench at the back of the church. Please return them to their home before leaving. Thanks!

Clergy Visits…If you, or someone you know is getting ready for a hospital stay, is in the hospital or recovery center or has become homebound for whatever reason, and a visit by a member of the clergy would be beneficial, please remember to call the parish office 681-8333.

Child Care Our Cherub Nursery for Newborns through Two Years of Age, which provides safe and adult supervised care, is located in the parish house at the end of the main hallway. The nursery is open Sundays at 9 am.

For Our Young Churchgoers Ages Three and Over Activity folders with drawing paper, crayons, and a Bible text to color are available for use each Sunday at the Children’s Book Center in the church narthex.

Large Print Bulletins are available for Sunday worship services. Please ask an usher.

All Saints Part-Timers February’s get-together will be on Monday the 6^th, 6pm, at the home of Mary and John Armbruster in Oldfield. Call them at 645-4321 to let them know you are coming, for directions and what to bring.

All Saints ECW February dinner meeting on Tuesday the 7th beginning at 5:45pm in the parish hall. This month’s program will focus on Literacy. The sign up sheet is located on the parish hall bulletin board.

Family Promise Night at our local Pizza Hut Restaurants is Tuesday the 7th from 5-9pm. Every month on the first Tuesday, 20% of your purchase, with their special flyer, will be donated to Family Promise of Beaufort County. These flyers are available on the black credenza in the parish house foyer.

The Garden Tour Poster Art Show begins February 7 at the Hilton Head Branch of the Beaufort County Library on Beach City Road and runs until March 17. A ballot box for the Peoples Choice Award voting will be available.

March of the Penguins: In the Harshest Place on Earth, Love Finds a Way Join us in Gordon Mann Hall for a multi-generational evening of kid-friendly food and film! Wednesday, February 8. Dinner will be served at 5:30 p.m. and consist of Hot Dogs, Mac & Cheese, Pizza, Fruit/Cheese/Veggies, Salad with Drinks. Once everyone is served the movie will begin! We will eat during the movie-what fun! We will be finished by 7:30 p.m. The sign up poster is on the Parish Hall bulletin board.

Forward Day by Day Prayer Booklets for Feb/Mar/Apr are now available on the tract rack located in the church narthex. Cost is only $1.00. Many other topics tracts are available too!

The Daughters of the King will make available pew Bibles at $10.00 each. Parishioners as well as daughters are welcome to buy and donate these Bibles in memory of a loved one or on some occasion such as anniversary or Mother's Day etc. Bookplates will be completed with inscriptions of donators loved ones names etc. For more info talk to any daughter (recognizable by their crosses) or the Rector.

MISSION NEWS FROM THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

2012 Vacation Bible School Mission Trip Fr. Rick will lead the team to teach Vacation Bible School planned for June 16^th – June 23^rd at La Redencion Church in Barahona this year. You don’t need to speak Spanish (although it is a bonus!) or be experienced in early childhood development, just be willing and able to share of yourself with others who love Christ. Youth who are ‘rising juniors’ are encouraged to apply! Talk with Fr. Rick, Deacon Sandy or Linda Lanier for more information.

Supporting a child at La Redencion, Barahona, DR The elementary school at La Redencion is in its second year of operation, and we have received the names of thirteen children in need of scholarships. As we help a child, we also establish a deeper connection with our brothers and sisters in Christ at the church and school All Saints helped build. $300 supports a child for a year of schooling. Please prayerfully consider supporting these children. No gift is too small -- every dollar is valued. Your check may be made payable to: All Saints Episcopal Church, note DR scholarship in the Memo line.

The Garden Tour Board is pleased to announce the grant recipients for the 2012 All Saints Garden Tour. The proceeds from the 25th All Saints Garden Tour will go to The Backpack Buddies Program of Hilton Head Island, Family Promise of Beaufort County, The Neighborhood Outreach Connection, The New Destiny Center, Inc., Born to Read, Inc., and Senior Services of Beaufort County. Each of the grant recipients has a primary focus on hunger, homelessness, or literacy. To learn more about these agencies, on the menu, click on Links/Social Services.

Parish Information on the Web. For those in the parish who would like to review the responses received during our "Saints Alive" visits, you can view a compilation of the responses on our website www.allsaints-hhi.org. On the menu, click on "Parish Information" which will open the Parish Information Menu page. Then slide your mouse over Reports/Special Reports/(Click on)2011 Synopsis of "Saints Alive" Canvass. While on this page, you can also browse Parish Meeting Minutes, Vestry Meeting Minutes, Financial Reports, and Data such as Service Attendance.

Weekly Email Blast Each week the parish office sends out to parishioners and friends who want to get ‘up to the minute’ announcements via our ‘Email Blast.” If you would like to get the Blast, you can call the parish office and we will add you to the list or you can do it yourself using the link at the bottom of the “Contact Us” page – accessible via “Visitor Information/Contact Us” or “Who We Are/Contact Us” located on our website main menu.

Support
The Prayers of the People are the time in which we “bring before God the needs of others” (BCP p. 856). Please lift up the names below and any others for which you have particular concerns in your private prayers in the week to come.

All Saints Prayer List (Click here)

Clergy Visits If you, or someone you know is getting ready for a hospital stay, is in the hospital or recovery center or has become homebound for whatever reason, and a visit by a member of the clergy would be beneficial, please remember to call the parish office 681-8333.

Lay Care Givers In the midst of the complexities of life, when the world is steaming full speed ahead, a Lay Care Giver is able and willing to pause with a person who has come upon a place in their life that is significant, difficult, important, and challenging, that requires the care and presence of another person on the journey. A Lay Care Giver is a trained parishioner who values the spiritual journey and the integrity of a person’s life. It is about a ministry of presence, listening, and about the care of one person to another. If you, or some one you know, could benefit from a Lay Care Giver, please contact the rector at the church office or Mary Ann Gebler 645-4111.

Community

Food Pantry Staples Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, if you love me, feed my lambs, tend my sheep.” (taken from John 21: 15-17) Feed My Sheep is All Saints’ outreach project for our local food pantries Bluffton Self Help and The Deep Well Project. For February, needed contributions are "All Kinds of Canned or Dried Beans: Kidney, Black, Pinto, etc; and Canned tomatoes and tomato products such as Sauce, Paste, etc." Contributions can be placed in the wicker basket located in the narthex. It’s that easy!

ECW’s Women in Need Program is collecting the following items for distribution to Citizens Opposed to Domestic Abuse (CODA) and Room at the Inn shelters: Regular and Maternity size seasonal clothing/shoes for women (underwear in particular; size 1X, 2X, & 3X) and children of all sizes; Diapers and related items for newborns and infants; full size toiletries, used cell phones (to be converted into 911 units). Also needed are household paper goods and cleaning supplies. Room at the Inn is in need of children's shoes and clothing from birth to 6 years old. Coda and Room at the Inn are very grateful for our generous support and donations. The donation center is located in the parish hall next to the hanging quilt. Your generosity is greatly appreciated.

Hollings Cancer Center at MUSC Charleston is accepting donations of Boost and Ensure for patients in treatment. Donations can be dropped off at the reserved spot in the narthex.

Hilton Head Fire & Rescue offers American Heart Association CPR, AED (automated external defibrillator) and First Aid Classes. The only cost is $4 for a 2 year certification card and $10 if you would like to purchase a book. Call 682-5141 for more information or to register for a class.

Volunteers in Medicine (VIM) located on Hilton Head Island, is a free medical clinic which cares for people who live at or below the poverty level and are unable to afford medical insurance. Interested in volunteering and utilizing your life experiences and unique abilities? Volunteer Job Openings: Physicians, Screeners, Greeters, Schedulers, Phlebotomist, Appointment Confirmation Callers, Interpreters, and Loss Prevention Patrol. Contact Stan Stolarcyk, Director of Volunteers at 681-6612 ext 238 (e-mail sstolarcyk@vimclinic.org or talk to Dale Finn 705-2317.

Ministry Opportunities

Altar Flowers may be given for a Thanksgiving, Memorial or Celebration. The cost is $40.00. Summer contact is Marilyn Adams in the parish office, 681-8333.

All Saints now has a welcome VIDEO to introduce newcomers and visitors to our parish! You can see and hear it by going to our home site, www.allsaints-hhi.org. Click on ‘Welcome Video’ to view it. It shows the warmth and openness of our All Saints family and the vitality and diversity of our worship, Christian education, mission, outreach and fellowship.

Altar Guild Members are needed for this rewarding ministry! All Saints Altar Guild is open to all parishioners (women and men), age 21 and over. Each member will be trained for the Eucharist service of your choice. Call Patty Blackmon at 785-4044 for more information.

Acolyte Corps Needs You!! All Children of God ages 10 and up are eligible. Contact Brad Tufts at 342-9549.

All Saints Flower Guild is open to anyone with a love of flowers and a wish to further enhance our altar. No experience necessary – training will be provided. Contact Shirley Pearse at 342-5119.

SUNDAY COFFEE HOUR The dictionary describes “Fellowship” as the sharing of persons having similar tastes, interests, etc. Our Coffee Hour is a most appreciated and enjoyable “fellowship” follow up to our morning worship. Three or four volunteer hosts are needed each week to provide simple finger foods to go along with the coffee, tea and lemonade the church provides. Won't you please share your time by agreeing to host a Sunday Coffee Hour? The signup poster is located on the bulletin board next to the kitchen. For more information or questions/concerns, contact Ann Winters at 363-5764.

Daughters of the King The DOK is an order for women who are communicants of the Episcopal Church, churches in communion with it, or churches in the Historic Episcopate, and the mission of the order is the extension of Christ’s Kingdom through Prayer, Service and Evangelism. Contact Jenifer Gajdalo at 681-3881 for more information on this ministry.

Dominican Republic Medical Mission, March 9-17, 2012: Applications have been coming in for the March Medical Mission to the DR. We have clergy, nurses, physicians, pharmacists, translators, and others who have committed to this mission already. Applications are still available for people interested in going on the trip. We currently have openings for additional translators, physicians, medical providers, dentists and pharmacists. We have a committed, experienced medical group from various churches throughout SC and beyond. We would love to work with new team members. The team will be selected in September. Team members are responsible for the cost of their mission expenses which will be approximately $1,400. A clinic will be set up in an Episcopal church in an impoverished inner-city barrio of Santo Domingo. The Dominicans in this area lack access to medical services. Contact Dale Finn for an application or for more information: email: echo3355@yahoo.com or ph: 705-2317. We also need financial help to purchase much needed medicines and medical supplies. If you wish to contribute, a check may be made out to: All Saints Episcopal Church—DR Medical Mission attention Dale Finn.

Nursing Home Ministry What did Jesus say really matters in life? Loving God above all else, and showing it by loving our neighbors. Which neighbors? Our bridge and tennis partners? Well, yes, but Jesus clearly identifies himself with the poor and the helpless. We read in Matthew 25: “Then the King [Jesus] will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’” (Matt. 25:34-36) I think if Jesus were alive today he might add: “I was lonely in a nursing home, and you came to visit me.” Many folks who went to church every Sunday all their lives – now that they need a Christian community more than ever – are in wheelchairs in nursing homes, and are unable to attend church. All Saints has a monthly Home Communion ministry at the Life Care Center (a nursing home), located here on Hilton Head, in back of the Hilton Head Hospital (120 LaMotte Drive). We bring Home Communion, and sing hymns and keep the residents company a while. Our visits are always scheduled on the second Thursday of the month, always at 2:00. We meet with residents in the large dining hall and spend about 45 minutes with them. If you could come every month, or only a couple of times a year, please call Sandy Grant at 715-0202. She would be glad to tell you more about it. It’s a beautiful ministry. Sandy Grant

Back Pack Buddies The Hunger and Homeless Coalition, an ecumenical group of five churches and one synagogue on the island work to fight childhood hunger by providing nutritious non-perishable food in back packs. These backpacks are sent home every Friday afternoon for weekend nutrition to 50 needy children in three elementary schools. The group needs your help in reaching out to more children who are currently un-served. If you would like more information on how YOU can help email Gene Arnold at geniepiea@aol.com.

All Saints’ Columbarium and Memorial Garden, is a beautiful tranquil garden setting just outside the church. To keep it beautiful and respectful of the lives of those for whom it is their resting place, volunteers are needed. Spend just one hour each month, along with another person, keeping this sacred space neat and presentable. Basic gardening skills are appreciated but can be taught. Call Jerry Shirley at 705-3020 if you would like to honor those whose rest eternal is our responsibility.

Prayer Shawl Ministry This unique and love-filled form of outreach began in New England around 1996. It was here that a Unitarian minister and a Catholic lay person came together with a loosely formed plan to knit shawls as spiritually uplifting gifts. It came informally to Christ Church in Binghamton, NY and in 2008 to All Saints, Hilton Head Island, SC. In just this way the ministry is traveling across this country to churches of every denomination. Since its inception it has grown worldwide. Easy to knit shawls are created for giving to others as a way of connecting us to them and them to us. The shawls may go to people we do or do not know and are a means of expressing our love and prayers for the seasons of life such as times when we are celebrating a birth, marriage, birthday or other blessings, but even more when we are in need of healing from grief, illness, aging or other trials of life. An informal and silent prayer is said now and then throughout the knitting of the shawl. In this way, the recipient is wrapped in love and prayers whenever the shawl is wrapped around their shoulders. Both members and non-members of All Saints are welcome to join us. If you are interested in becoming involved, please contact Linda Grady at 705.4875 or e-mail her at ladylinda.5411@yahoo.com for more information.

Be a Eucharistic Minister There are many ways in which parishioners of All Saints share in the life of the parish, and one of these is by serving as a Eucharistic Minister. We welcome any who are interested in this ministry. Please contact Brad Tufts at 342-9549 or Father Rick or Father Mark at the parish office.

Friends with Wheels Do you enjoy multi-tasking? If so, Friends with Wheels could use your talents. Many of our neighbors have no way to get to their medical appointments. You can help by driving or by scheduling drivers. Could you be available to drive one morning or afternoon a week? How about setting aside one morning a month to answer phone requests for rides? It’s rewarding and is a great way to reach out to help someone. Please contact Cathie Cherrix at 681-8870.

Sunday Greeters Come and join our welcoming corps of women and men who meet and greet our Sunday visitors and parishioners alike! Pick your own service time! If you attend 8 o’clock, contact Jenifer Gajdalo at 681-3881; and for the 10:15 service, contact Kay Baker at 681-8228.

Usher Corps - A wonderful opportunity to serve your church. Both male and female ushers, ages 10 and up, are needed to join the All Saints Usher Corps. No experience necessary. For more information contact Jim Moore at 681-8273.

Name tags, name tags. Of course we should all wear one so everyone will know everyone else’s name (and avoid embarrassing moments). Speak to a Greeter.

Meeting Space Availability PLEASE remember to check with the Parish Office if your group/club/committee is interested in using any of All Saints’ facilities for your meetings, dinner events, etc. Space is limited and days/times are filling up fast for the upcoming season.