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Proposition 8 Trial: Visit our Marriage Equality pages for information and updates on the landmark Perry v Schwarzenegger trial
 
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Check Out All Saints' New News Blog
A place to go for news about the mission and ministry of All Saints Church: stories from within the All Saints community and reports from the wider community.

Life Safety Presentation for All Saints Church
Please take time to look at the new safety plan for All Saints Church created by Building Safety Solutions and our Buildings and Grounds team.

Website Upgrade
The All Saints website will undergo a major overhaul in the coming months to make it more user-friendly and intuitive. It is a very exciting move forward on the road to something big and wonderful, but there may be a broken link or a video glitch along the way. If something doesn’t work for you, it would be a great help if you would contact Keith Holeman at 626.583.2739 or kholeman@allsaints-pas.org.

ALL SAINTS IS SEARCHING FOR A PEACE & JUSTICE DIRECTOR

All Saints Church is seeking an energetic, joyful, progressive, organized and experienced person to be a full time Director of Peace & Justice. The Director of Peace & Justice will embrace a vision of integrating spirituality with justice and peacemaking. The Director will coordinate the varied Peace & Justice ministries and activities of the parish and actively and effectively engage, inspire and expand the involvement of parishioners in the work of peace and justice. The Director liaises with organizations in the wider community and maintains strong interfaith connections. The successful candidate will be someone whose knowledge, enthusiasm and effectiveness will be so infectious that everyone who worships at All Saints will want to be more deeply engaged in works of service, compassion, social justice and peacemaking. S/he must be present for Sunday services and other weekend duties. See a job description here, or contact Christina Honchell at honchell@allsaints-pas.org.



ALL SAINTS IS SEARCHING FOR A DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE FOR CREATIVE CONNECTIONS

The Office for Creative Connections (OCC) is a community outreach ministry established as a gift to the City of Pasadena in 1984 by the vestry of All Saints Church. OCC identifies local needs and resources and brings people together around issues of common concern to envision and enact new ways to creatively address intractable problems, and then lead from an idea to a viable reality. The OCC methodology consists of listening, discerning, reporting and connecting. The successful applicant for this full-time position will be an energetic community organizer and faith-based activist with pastoral gifts, a vision for the integration of spirituality and justice and a passion to bring real change to the lives of the people of Pasadena. See a job description here, or contact Christina Honchell at honchell@allsaints-pas.org.



WATCH OUR THREE EDUCATIONAL EVENTS ON AFGHANISTAN:

• Rethink Afghanistan  (video)
     A Presentation by filmmaker Robert Greenwald, November 22, 2009

• A Woman Among Warlords: The Afghan Who Dared To Raise Her Voice  (video)
     A Presentation by Former Afghan Parliament Member Malalai Joya, Friday, November 6, 2009

• The Forgotten War: Why Afghanistan Is Just As Bad As Iraq  (video)
     A Presentation by Sonali Kolhatkar, October 18, 2009
  
  

THE CHARTER FOR COMPASSION
The first ever “Charter For Compassion” was released on Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009.

Read the Charter in English, or lea la Carta por la Compasión en Español. 

The brain child of Karen Armstrong and signed by a wide variety of people from Desmond Tutu, Deepak Chopra, Goldie Hawn, Peter Gabriel, Isabel Allende, Queen Noor, Quincy Jones, Eboo Patel, to Kenneth Cole, the Charter notes that “The principle of compassion lies at the heart of all religious, ethical and spiritual traditions, calling us always to treat all others as we wish to be treated ourselves. Compassion impels us to work tirelessly to alleviate the suffering of our fellow creatures, to dethrone ourselves from the centre of our world and put another there, and to honour the inviolable sanctity of every single human being, treating everybody, without exception, with absolute justice, equity and respect.”



PASADENA WANTS TO HEAR FROM YOU ABOUT THE FUTURE!

The City is updating the General Plan, the blueprint for the City's future which lays out specific strategies to accomodate growth and new development, including the transportation networks that support the City. This is the first major update since 1994.

Please visit www.cityofpasadena.net/generalplan for details about the four ways to participate in the General Plan update process. All Saints' future is the future of the City, so please participate in this important process!

IN MEMORIAM

 




A memorial service for Miyron Mike Basmajian will be held Friday, March 12, 2:00 p.m., at Neighborhood Church, Ross Chapel, 301 North Orange Grove Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91103

A memorial service for  Donald Nance will be held Saturday, March 13, at Trinity Episcopal Church,  419 South 4th Street, Redlands, CA 92373, 909.793.2014

A memorial service for King Stuart will be held at All Saints, Saturday, April 17, 2:30 p.m.




ALL SAINTS IS SEARCHING FOR A YOUTH MINISTER

All Saints Church is seeking an energetic, joyful, progressive, organized and experienced person to be a full time Youth Minister. This individual oversees the spiritual formation and overall wellbeing of all youth in the parish and beyond, in the 6th through 12th grade. S/he has responsibility for the management and overall planning, creation, development and operation of all Junior and Senior High youth programs, including small groups, and the Acolyte and Seekers confirmation programs. S/he will foster young people’s personal and spiritual growth, age-appropriate theological and interfaith awareness, ethical insight and community engagement, as well as take pastoral responsibility for the youth and their families. S/he must be present for Sunday services and other weekend duties. See a job description here, or contact Wilma Jakobsen at wjakobsen@allsaints-pas.org or 626.583.2762, or Anne Peterson at apeterson@allsaints-pas.org or 626.583.2713.



ENJOY PHOTOS FROM ED'S JOURNEY TO WASHINGTON, D.C.
Check out the photos taken by parishioner Rachel Niles during the rector's visit to Washington on June 11. Ed joined religious leaders from around the nation to talk to Administration officials about the need for an official inquiry into torture practices by the U.S. following 9/11.

 

Rector Ed Bacon is appearing regularly, twice monthly, on Oprah's Soul Series radio show. The series, airing on Sirius/XM Radio, features Ed and co-host Elizabeth Lesser.  The shows air on Mondays at 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Pacific Time.

See some transcripts of Ed's show from Oprah.com.

BUILDING PROJECT UPDATE

At a specially called meeting on July 21, the Vestry unanimously voted to approve the recommendation of the Building Project Team to begin the Environmental Impact Report (EIR) process.
     
At the time our project was submitted to the Planning Commission in December 2008, with the approval of the city’s Planning Department, both the City Attorney’s office and the Planning Department had determined that the environmental impacts of our master plan would be negligible and could be mitigated without a full evaluation and report. The Planning Commission concluded otherwise and determined that All Saints should prepare an EIR to address the issues raised at the Planning Commission meeting.
     
Although we could have appealed directly to City Council for approval of the master plan without an EIR, we opted to continue in dialogue and discussions to determine if a compromise could be effected which would address the issues raised at the Planning Commission and avoid the considerable expense and time of an EIR. At the invitation of the head of the city’s Planning Department we have participated in continued discussions with city staff and members of Pasadena Heritage. We have been open to suggestions and changes, except for those which would compromise our mission and programs. Our architects have worked diligently in making changes which have addressed many of the concerns we have heard, and all this effort has resulted in a better project.
     
Unfortunately, it has become clear that further dialogue will not result in a successful compromise. The Building Project Team, after carefully weighing all options has determined that the EIR process is our best alternative at this point. The EIR will reflect the extent to which we have brought the community into the discussion from the start and how we have responded substantively to virtually every concern raised. It will put us in better stead in going back to the Planning Commission and ultimately to the City Council for approval. Though these delays and additional costs are frustrating, we continue to remain fully confident that we will be successful in bringing world-class architecture to All Saints and Pasadena in furtherance of our mission.

ALL SAINTS VESTRY PASSES MARRIAGE RESOLUTION
At the monthly Vestry meeting on Tuesday, June 2, 2009, the Vestry unanimously passed a marriage resolution stating that All Saints is called to, and will, make the sacrament of marriage equally available to all couples, and that All Saints clergy will not sign civil marriage certificates for any couples, until the right to civil marriage is available to all couples. Read the full resolution here.

ACT WITH ALL SAINTS IN STANDING AGAINST TORTURE

All Saints Church stands firmly against torture. We have joined forces with the National Religious Campaign Against Torture to urge Congress to create an independant commission of inquiry into investigate U.S. torture policies and practices. Click here to add your name to the petition endorsing this commission.

 

 

 

READ TWO OF PRESIDENT OBAMA'S SPEECHES
MENTIONED IN THE RECTOR'S EASTER SERMON

Please enjoy transcripts of President Obama's two inspirational speeches in Europe: in Prague and Strasbourg, referred to by Ed Bacon in his Easter Sunday sermon:

Read President Obama's Prague Speech.

Read the President's Strasbourg Speech.

The Episcopal Public Policy Network brings the positions of the Episcopal Church to our nation's lawmakers. The EPPN represents the social policies of the church established by the General Convention and Executive Council, including issues of international peace and justice, human rights, immigration, welfare, poverty, hunger, health care, violence, civil rights, the environment, racism and issues involving women and children.

To join the Episcopal Public Policy Network, click here.

I STAND WITH DARFUR

Continuing until the Darfur genocide stops, a large coalition of grassroots, interfaith, and civic organizations will target the Sudanese Embassy in Washington, D.C. for demonstrations and acts of non-violent civil disobedience.

I Stand With Darfur is a campaign to demand that President Bush stop trading the lives of Darfurians for Sudan's intelligence information and, instead, protect the people of Darfur with an effective international peacekeeping force - with or without the government of Sudan's consent.

The continuing genocide in Darfur, Sudan, has claimed over 400,000 lives and brutally displaced over 2.5 million people, and the Sudanese government has recently escalated attacks on innocent civilians.