A Publication of All Saints Anglican Church October 2018

IN THIS ISSUE

• Stewardship Series

• Vestry Hires Architect

• 3-Stream Saturdays

• Men at Work

• Jerry and Stacy Kramer

• Family Weekend

THE CROWN

Blessing of the Pets Does God care about your furry friend? Does

Jesus love your feathered fellow? What about

Sally salamander with all of her slimy skin? Yes,

yes, yes!

Our glorious Creator has given us dominion

over the animals and asked us to be good

stewards of the lives He has placed in our care.

In honor of this commitment and the Feast of St.

Francis, All Saints will be hosting a Blessing of

the Animals on Thursday, October 4.

Prayer begins at 6:00 p.m. and the service

should last less than an hour. So whether he or

she slithers on the ground, gallops on hoofs,

munches on grass, gulps down meal worms,

howls at the moon, or swims silently through the

water, all of your friends are welcome to be a

part of the celebration!

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The Vestry is thrilled to announce that they have unanimously

decided to hire Rardin & Carroll Architects to partner with us

to develop a master plan for our 10-acre site and phase 1

plan. Rardin & Carroll was founded in 1980 in Chattanooga,

S T E W A R D S H I P S E A S O N

Sharing for the Life of the World

Dr. Kim Howerton

At All Saints, stewardship is the heart of our mission. We share in the

life of God for the life of the world. We gather our first fruits—our time,

talents, and treasures—and then share them generously with others.

God calls the church to serve His people and expand His kingdom. We

are His hands and heart.

All that we have is a gift from God—creation, His word, every breath

that we take, our skills, our possessions, and our time. He places these

gifts in our open and humble hands and calls us to extend our hands to

His world. He trusts us to share with others. He instructs us to give the

first fruits, not the leftovers.

All Saints Anglican Church models this instruction. The first 20% of

all the treasure that we pledge goes outside our doors to kingdom work.

We share our bounty with our community and world first. Then we

develop the church’s annual budget. We also share our time and talents

with the organizations that we financially support. Kingdom work is

relational work.

Being a good steward is more than pledging a certain dollar amount

or volunteering a certain number of hours. Being a good steward isn’t

bound by a set time period. It is a surrendering of our hearts and

acknowledging that all that we have is His and He calls us to share it

with His kingdom. It is a daily way of life.

Stewardship living begins with giving thanks for even the smallest of

blessings—watching the sunrise, eating a meal together with old and

new friends, or watching the rain through the window above the altar.

Stewardship living is founded in God’s Word. When His Word is planted

in our hearts, we desire to bless His kingdom. We love more freely. We

share more generously. We walk together. We bare each others’

burdens and share each others’ joys. We grow closer to God. We do

the work He calls us to do.

As we prayerfully take inventory of our blessings and listen to His

call for our time and treasures, please pray that we recognize that our

mission as a church is to share for the life of God’s world.

Check Your Mailbox for Your Stewardship Letter

All members and regular attenders will

receive a letter in the mail introducing you to

our annual stewardship season, which begins

Sunday, October 21. The letter asks you to

prayerfully consider what you will pledge to All

Saints in 2019 in terms of your time, talent,

and treasure. As the Spirit leads you and your

family in these decisions, be sure to fill out the

enclosed forms and turn them into the church

before or by our Pledge Ingathering, which

will be on Sunday, November 18.

Remember that All Saints forms its annual

budget based on these pledges, so please

give these decisions your utmost

consideration, and yet also keep in mind—as

Kim reminds us—that these pledges

represent only a portion of what it means to

share for the life of the world.

TN on the concept of providing responsive

services and quality design, while also

striving to be good stewards of the church's

resources, both environmentally and

monetarily. For decades, this firm has helped

hundreds of church congregations achieve

their vision of ministry.

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The Three Streams of the Anglican Tradition

It is commonly said that there are three streams

that nourish and give life to the Anglican tradition.

While each local church tends to accentuate one of

these streams more than the others, Anglicans as

a whole are committed to holding all three streams

together: the Scriptures, the Sacraments, and the

Spirit. Anglican churches are unified around these

three streams, though diversified in their

expression.

THE SCRIPTURES

Anglicans believe that we meet and experience

God through the Scriptures, God’s inspired Word

that contains all things necessary for salvation. The

Scriptures reveal the story of God working to

restore his good creation from the effects of sin

and death through Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit.

It is the story the church finds itself a part of, and

so it is the story that we strive to embody in our

own context. The liturgy and lectionary ensure that

Anglicans are among the most Bible-reading

Christians in the entire world.

THE SACRAMENTS

Anglicans believe that we meet and experience

God through the Sacraments, especially in Baptism

and the Eucharist. A Sacrament is an outward and

visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace; it

identifies a place where God has promised to meet

his faithful people. Though God is indeed present

everywhere, we encounter him through the

Sacraments in a unique way. The Sacraments,

along with the liturgy itself, reminds us that this physical world

matters—indeed, our bodies matter—and one day it will be

filled with the light and life of God. The Sacraments are a

foretaste for the church of that coming heaven-and-earth

reality.

THE SPIRIT

Anglicans believe that we meet and experience God through

the Holy Spirit. By definition, the church is made up of those

empowered by the Holy Spirit to follow Jesus Christ in seeking

first the kingdom of God. Anglicans trust that God works

through his Spirit in a variety of ways: in baptism and the

Eucharist, our prayers, the laying on of hands, serving the poor,

anointing with oil, and healings, among other things. And since

the Spirit of God is among the people of God, each person is

called upon both to cultivate the fruit of the Spirit and to utilize

the gifts of the Spirit.

To explore these three streams more in depth, be sure to

attend one or more of our Three-Stream Saturdays on October

13, 27, and November 10 from 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. A light

breakfast will be provided along with nursery care. We hope to

see you there!

The firm’s principle architects, Dale Rardin and Stephen Carrol, are the original

co-owners. Steve Carroll will be our lead architect. He has thirty-eight years of

experience in church architecture and planning. As part of his studies at Georgia

Tech, he studied Church Architecture at the University of Paris School of Fine

Arts. As principle in-charge of design, he has been responsible for over 600

church-related projects. He is skilled in understanding and translating the needs

of church clients into flexible master facility plans.

The firm’s first step is to spend a few months learning more from the parish,

so be on the lookout for upcoming surveys and focus group meetings.

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Centering Prayer is a way of cultivating a

deeper relationship with God. It is a silent

prayer practice that helps us trust in God’s

abiding presence. The fruits of centering

prayer show up not in the prayer time itself but

in daily life, in the way we do whatever we do.

You’re invited to learn this practice with others

so you can continue it on your own each day.

Meetings on the second and fourth Thursdays

of every month from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. (starts

and ends promptly) at the home of Steven and

Sally Swanson at 12 Silver Leaf Drive.

OTHER HAPPENINGS

It is a great mercy that God provides us with

weaknesses, needs, and struggles so that others can

come along beside us and help strengthen, supply, and

support us. This is one of the great ways that the church

is closely bound together. One new opportunity for the

men of All Saints to do this is to come out and join the

Men at Work Pastorate that meets about once a month

for food, conversation, teaching, and then going out to

help serve those in our congregation and community

who need an extra hand around their house or yard.

On Saturday, October 20, we will be meeting for

Latham’s BBQ on North Highland at 8:00 a.m. for

breakfast and a short lesson before we head to Carrie

Whaley’s to help out around her land. We hope to see

you there.

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Spiritual Friendship

St. Paul wrote to the Galatians, “My children, with

whom I am again in labor until Christ is formed in

you…” In his second letter, St. Peter wrote, “For by

these He has granted to us His precious and

magnificent promises, so that by them you may

become partakers of the divine nature,

having escaped the corruption that is in the world by

lust.”

The goal of the Christian life is to be formed more

and more into the likeness of our Lord Jesus Christ.

We want to imitate his compassion, his holy life, his

careful observance of the commandments, and his

teaching. When we do this day by day, hour by hour,

we become partakers of his divine nature. As we are

transformed by Christ into his likeness, our daily

habits and practices help us to walk with Christ and

therefore, to walk with God. This is Christian

discipleship at its essence.

Central to being formed in Jesus Christ is walking

with others. We need friends to walk with us as

Jesus’ disciples walked with him. St. Paul took

friends along with him as he planted the Church in

various places. The early Celtic church understood

that everyone who attempts to walk with Jesus must

have a spiritual friend. We must walk together if we

are to walk with Christ.

Through dialogue, spiritual friends help us to be

attentive to God’s presence in our lives. This requires

our friend to set some things aside. A spiritual friend

must set aside her own interests and preoccupations.

She must not analyze what she is hearing or rehearse

how she will respond. A spiritual friend resists the

impulse to solve problems or fix things that appear

broken.

Spiritual friendship is a gift of not doing—not

interrupting, not attempting to solve problems, not

prematurely or inappropriately advising, not assuming

that what has worked for us will work for others. A

spiritual friend is a gift of safety. Imagine feeling safe

enough with another person that without weighing

words or measuring thoughts you are able to pour

yourself out, trusting that the other person will keep

what is worth keeping and, with a breath of kindness,

blow the rest away.

To discuss and learn more about how we can

practice spiritual friendship here at All Saints, join Fr.

Ross on Monday, October 22 at 6:30 p.m. Sign up in

the foyer. Location to be determined.

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OUTREACH MINISTRIES

Room in the Inn is an emergency shelter program coordinated

by Area Relief Ministries (ARM) here in Jackson. ARM partners

with almost fifty local churches to feed and shelter homeless

men, especially during the bitter cold winter months. This

program is intended to provide temporary relief for the homeless

in the hope that other housing and work programs will help

move these men toward development.

Another winter season begins this October and All Saints

has again committed to serve about once a month. For the

remainder of 2018, we will host Room in the Inn on the

Wednesdays of October 10, November 7, and December 12. As

always, there are numerous ways you can participate. See the

signup sheet in the foyer on Sunday mornings.

Who Are Jerry and Stacy Kramer? You may have noticed that during the Prayers of

the People on Sundays, for the last few months

now, when we pray for our missionaries, we’ve

been praying for Jerry and Stacy Kramer in

Tanzania and Iraq. But who, you might be

thinking, is this couple? Good question.

Jerry and Stacy

Kramer are our

diocesan missionaries

who serve with Love

for the Least (L4L), a

movement born from

the fifteen-year

missionary work of its

first field workers.

Love for the Least

has dozens of church

partners in America

from a broad range of

traditions and thousands of believers who pray

daily and invest in God’s kingdom. The mission

of L4L is to share the compassion of Christ with

an unreached world. Jerry and Stacy serve on

the frontlines of some of the least reached areas

in our world, including areas of Iraq. It is a

privilege for our diocese, and us within it, to

support these missionaries in their work. To learn

more, visit lovefortheleast.org.

Domestic Violence Awareness Month October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, which is a

good time to highlight a local ministry we support called WRAP.

Founded by a small group of volunteers in 1975 as a Rape

Crisis line for women in Madison County, WRAP has grown

over the last 40 years into a dual domestic violence/sexual

assault program serving 19 counties in West Tennessee. In

2015, more than 50% of all crimes against persons in West

Tennessee were crimes of domestic and/or sexual

violence. More than 90% of the victims were women and girls.

WRAP seeks to build safe, stable, nurturing relationships,

families, and communities. To realize this vision, WRAP's

mission is twofold. First, WRAP partners with survivors in their

healing journey, providing them with the education, tools, and

support they need to feel empowered to build for themselves

safe, stable, nurturing relationships and families. Second,

WRAP partners with the communities they serve to end

violence against women and girls.

You can learn more about WRAP on Sunday, October 7 as

Beth Anderson, a WRAP Board Member, will be present at our

services to share more about the organization..

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Hello Parents and Students!

As we enter our Stewardship Season on

Sunday, October 21, I want to encourage you to

carefully consider as a family how you will begin

“Sharing for the Life of the World” this year. What

will your family offer to God to make our world a

more beautiful place? Pray together on this topic,

devote time and conversation to it, and involve

every member of the family, from the littlest child to

the wisest grandparent.

After all, stewardship is not only about our

money. Stewardship is about serving God and our

neighbor with the time, the energy, the talents, and

the resources with which God has blessed us.

Every one of us has those things to share, even if

we do not always have dollars to put into an

offering plate.

The last Sunday of the Stewardship Season will

be November 5, and we will have two Family

Services to celebrate. I want you, on that Sunday, to

help me lay at the feet of Christ the fruit of all of our

prayer and conversation on this subject.

I invite the artists among us to help me beautify

the church, the musicians and singers to lead us in

our worship of God, our intercessors to pray for the

health our congregation, and our families to share

examples of what they have learned over the month.

I will be contacting you in the weeks ahead to see

how your family might help us achieve these goals.

In the meantime, dear friends, love one another

this month, as you reflect on the role stewardship

should play in the life of your family. Challenge one

another. Edify one another. And let us gather

together on Sunday, November 5 prepared to offer to

God our sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving!

BLW+

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VESTRY HIGHLIGHTS

September 18

Our Vestry meeting time hit

an all-time record this month:

three hours! But it was three

hours of fun and worthwhile

collaboration. After the

typical check-ins, devotional,

prayer, and reports, the

Vestry discussed any

feedback that was received

from our recent Parish Forum

on how we’re dreaming

about the development of our

property. So far our people

are responding with much

excitement to the Mission

Abbey piece, especially with

how it’s true to our church’s

identity and yet creatively

conceptualized. The Vestry

then spent some time

planning the format for how

we would interview our final

three architectural firms (see

pages 2–3 for the firm we

hired). We then discussed a

projected timeline leading up

to a capital campaign we

hope to begin sometime in

the late winter or early spring

of 2019. We are blessed to

be able to talk about so many

wonderful things! Continue to

be in prayer for our Vestry!

EVEN MORE HAPPENINGS

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Bible Study at the

Regency

Our monthly Bible Study at the

Regency Retirement Center

continues its study of James on the

Tuesdays of October 9 and 30 at

2:00 p.m. Feel free to join us!

The Rector’s

Discretionary Fund

As a reminder, by action of the

Vestry, the loose offering on the

second Sunday of each month is

designated for the Rector’s

Discretionary Fund, which is used to

help those in need. Please consider

making a loose offering on the

second Sunday of each month.

Critical Prayer Chain

If you ever have an urgent need or

crisis in your life that demands

immediate prayer, call Barbara Reed

at 865-659-5101 who manages the

Critical Prayer Chain. You will soon

have numerous people praying.

Votive Candle Stand

Consider donating $1 for each candle

you light to offset the costs of

candles. There is a slit in the stand

itself for cash donations. We are so

encouraged by how many people

utilize this prayer space.

T H E S H O R T S

Schedule a House

Blessing

For anyone who has recently moved

or purchased a new house, be sure

to speak with one of our priests

about scheduling a house blessing.

Condolences

Our heartfelt sympathies continue to

go to Aaron and Keely Beasley as

they grieve the loss of their son,

Judah. May light perpetual shine

upon him.

Heifer Ingathering

Parishioners collect change during

the year to help fight hunger and

poverty through Heifer International.

Once a quarter, we have a Heifer

Ingathering to collect this change.

So far this year, we have collected

almost $500. In December, the

funds collected are used to

purchase animals for the needy. Our

final 2017 ingathering will be

November 4. For more information

about this project, see Rachelle

Carraher or visit heifer.org.

Thursday Morning Prayer

Each Thursday at 8:10 a.m. we

gather for Morning Prayer at All

Saints. Feel free to join us.

OCTOBER BIRTHDAYS

1 Jeremy Huelin

2 Melissa Lieffers

4 John Carraher

6 Jason Crawford

Marcia Moss

9 Archie Wright

12 Lauren Butler

13 Lynn Binkley

Clark Hubbard

16 Kay Shearin

17 Fr. Brian Larsen Wells

18 Alice Dettman

19 Ramona Sparks

20 Fr. Wes Gristy

22 Mary Lu Pettigrew

23 Phil Colgrove

26 Marcy Pinson

Madilynn Preston

27 Lilly Crossett

29 Catherine Insalaco

Isaiah Salazar

Lillie Salazar

31 Luke Sower

OCTOBER ANNIVERSARIES

9 Brandon and Beth Moore

17 Jason and Chelsy Crawford

George and Becky Googe

21 Gary and Celecia Osborne

28 Adam and Traci Pipkin

If your birthday or anniversary isn’t

listed, please contact the church office

at donna@allsaintsjackson.com or

660-2770.

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OCTOBER SERVICE SCHEDULE

OCT 7 Twentieth Sunday After Pentecost

EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS

9:00 10:45

David Laird, Jonathan Stewart Barbara Reed, Lloyd Tatum

LECTORS 9:00 10:45

David Thomas, Sally Slack Joy Moore, Steven Swanson

ACOLYTE 9:00 10:45

James Laird Joe Davis III

USHERS 9:00 10:45

Tom Brown, Len Diffee Kenn and Bev Carr

MONITORS 9:00 10:45

Gabe Hart X

INTERCESSORS 9:00 10:45

Janet Brown Robin Salyers

SOUND 9:00 10:45

Celeste Pope Jon Hall

CHILDREN’S CHURCH

9:00

10:45

Anna Messmer Michael Messmer Kathy Guthrie, Melinda Pearson

If you are on the schedule to serve and cannot, please find a replacement and let the church office know by noon on Wednesday.

OCT 21 Twenty-Second Sunday After Pentecost

EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS

9:00 10:45

Jeff Garrety, Nan Thomas Lloyd Tatum, David Nailling,

LECTORS 9:00 10:45

Cindy Jayne, Kat Cheshire Carrie Whaley, Robin Salyers

ACOLYTE 9:00 10:45

Chris Pope Joe Davis III

USHERS 9:00 10:45

Gabe Hart, Greg Jordan Jane Garrety, Melinda Pearson

MONITORS 9:00 10:45

X Tommy Hedgepeth

INTERCESSORS 9:00 10:45

Shannon Stewart Chelsy Crawford

SOUND 9:00 10:45

Celeste Pope Jay Beavers

CHILDREN’S CHURCH

9:00

10:45

Jonathan & Shannon Stewart Fr. Brian, Kat Cheshire Fr. Brian, Landon Preston

OCT 28 Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost

EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS

9:00 10:45

Barbara Reed, Jonathan Stewart David Nailling, Tamarin Huelin

LECTORS 9:00 10:45

Luke Sower, Jeff Garrety Steven Swanson, Sally Slack

ACOLYTE 9:00 10:45

X X

USHERS 9:00 10:45

X, X Jim Warmbrod, X

MONITORS 9:00 10:45

Jim Warmbrod X

INTERCESSORS 9:00 10:45

Stephanie Traylor Lila Psungo, Jeff Garrety

SOUND 9:00 10:45

X Joel Salazar

CHILDREN’S CHURCH

9:00

10:45

Ally Blaschke, Kevin & Liz Vailes Fr, Brian, Brittany Staggs Carrie Whaley Fr. Brian

MINISTRY CHAMPIONS

EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS Lloyd Tatum

LECTORS Charles Richards

ACOLYTES Kevin Vailes

USHERS Billy Slack

MONITORS Corey Insalaco

INTERCESSORS Fr. Ross Guthrie

SOUND Jay Beavers

CHILDREN’S CHURCH Fr. Brian Larsen Wells

OCT 14 Twenty-First Sunday After Pentecost

EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS

9:00 10:45

Jeff Garrety, X Bev Carr, X

LECTORS 9:00 10:45

Charles Richards, Mike Insalaco Barbara Reed, George Googe

ACOLYTE 9:00 10:45

Jason Crawford Lauren Butler

USHERS 9:00 10:45

X, X Lou and Marty Courcelle

MONITORS 9:00 10:45

X X

INTERCESSORS 9:00 10:45

David Thomas Anna Beard

SOUND 9:00 10:45

X Michael Messmer

CHILDREN’S CHURCH

9:00

10:45

Amanda Larsen Wells Ali Knack Jill Duval, Melinda Pearson Fr, Brian

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EACH SUNDAY

9:00 & 10:45 am

Holy Eucharist

10:15 am & 12:00 pm

Fellowship

6:00 pm

Youth

EACH TUESDAY

6:45 pm

Choir Rehearsal

EACH THURSDAY

8:10 am

Morning Prayer

(731) 660-2770

info@allsaintsjackson.com

www.allsaintsjackson.com

Clergy & Staff

Rector || Fr. Wes Gristy

Office Hours: Mon to Thurs, 8:30am to 5:30pm

wes@allsaintsjackson.com

Priest to Families || Fr. Brian Larsen Wells

Office Hours: Tues to Fri, 9:00am to 5:00pm

brian@allsaintsjackson.com

Priest of Spiritual Formation || Fr. Ross Guthrie

Office Hours: Mon to Thurs, 8:30am to 5:00pm

ross@allsaintsjackson.com

Rector Emeritus || Fr. Chuck Filiatreau

frchuck2846@gmail.com

Licensed Catechist || Dr. Gary Osborne

garywosborne@aol.com

Music Director || Dr. Jordan Tang

jcpptang@eplus.net

Parish Administrator || Donna Taylor

donna@allsaintsjackson.com

All Saints Anglican Church

212 McClellan Rd

Jackson, TN 38305

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Vestry & Treasurer

Rector’s Warden

Jonathan Stewart

Junior Warden

Bev Carr—Finance Chair

Secretary

David Thomas

Janet Brown—Visitor Connection

Grace Ann House—Pastoral Care

Kim Howerton—Stewardship

Will Pinson—Building & Grounds

Robin Salyers—Outreach

Treasurer

Ben Mehr (not on Vestry)