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All Saints is excited to undertake and new photo directory to showcase our church family and all the great smiles! Picture dates are April 23rd through
April 26th and May 30th.
Make sure to be included by scheduling your photo appointment in one of the following ways:
In the Gathering Space on Sunday Mornings.
Calling the church office.
Clicking on the link found on the members tab at the allsaintspalatine.org website. (The site will be disabled on Sunday mornings to avoid duplicate scheduling.)
If you have questions, please talk Pastor Jenn or Jen DeFranco. If you’d like to volunteer to greet people when they arrive for their photography session please e-mail Pastor Jenn.
For helpful planning and preparation for your photography session visit:
http://churchdirectories.lifetouch.com/prepare-members
April 2017 The Newsletter of All Saints Lutheran Church of Palatine
Saints Alive! All Saints Lutheran Church
630 S. Quentin Road Palatine, IL 60067
847-991-2080 www.allsaintspalatine.org
Holy Week begins April 9.
• Palm Sunday (April 9): We begin either outside or in the Gathering Space with the procession of palms. Worship at 8:30 am and 11:00 am.
• Maundy Thursday (April 13): Worship at 7:00 pm. Holy Communion, Foot Washing, and Stripping of the Altar.
• Good Friday (April 14): Family Worship at 10:00 am. Bring your little ones to experience the whole story at age-appropriate level. Wor-ship at 7:00 pm with darkness and a proces-sion of the cross.
• Easter Vigil (April 15): Worship at 7:00 pm to bring in the Easter Victory. We will begin outside and celebrate Easter with post-worship champagne and appetizers.
• Easter Day (April 16): Celebrate together at 8:30 am and 11:00 am. The seven weeks after Easter are the season of Easter. They are
also often referred to as “Eastertide.” Easter continues for seven weeks until Pentecost (June 4 this year). Let the Easter-tide continue to roll in your life and in the life of our world. All of Eastertide, we worship at 8:30 and 11:00 each Sunday morning.
For All to Know Christ 2 Saints Alive! April 2017
Read On... The Chapter One Book Club will meet April 17th at 7:00pm at Nan D’Ercoli’s home to discuss “A Man
Called Ove” by Fredrik Backman.
Please call Jane Oppermann (847-277-7715) for more information or to let her know you are interested in becoming a part of our book discussion group.
PADS Volunteer Appreciation Dinner Everyone who helped with All Saints’ ministry to the homeless this season is
invited to a celebratory dinner on Friday, May 5th. “Whether you were a shift-worker once a month or more; cooked or shopped for food (even if it was only one loaf of bread); or frequently vacuumed carpets on Sunday morning, we want to recognize your contribution to this important work,” said Co-Site Director Tom Germuska. “Come and join your co-workers for a casual supper,” he added. “Everyone is important to this ministry.”
As in the past there will be a meet-and-greet in the Gathering Space starting at 5:30 pm with some appetizers, a buffet dinner will be served at 6:15 pm Some brief remarks will follow dinner and guests can plan on leaving by 7:30 pm; plenty of time to catch a movie or do something else that evening.
Get Ready for Gardening and Support our Preschool Ministry
Little Saints Christian Preschool is offering a large variety of flowers and vegetables during our annual fundraiser. The selection is similar to last year with some new choices. No price increases – still very competitive and the same great quality from our Michigan grower.
We are taking orders through Sunday, April 23
Delivery will be on Saturday morning, May 20
Order sheets are available in the gathering space or on the preschool’s website http://
allsaintspalatine.org/little-saints-christian-preschool/. If you are looking for a particular plant and do not see it listed on the order sheet, please talk to us.
New this year: We are excited to support the Partners for Our Communities
(POC) Community Garden
All Saints Lutheran and our members have supported POC for many years through volunteering and other ways. Their Community Garden on Hicks Road provides fresh food and learning experi-ences for POC families.
Support that effort with a donation of vegetable plants. Donations sheets are
available in the Gathering Space.
If you have any questions, please talk to Wendy Gumz, Jenny Komoll, Nancy Grybash or Monika Fiedler or e-mail [email protected].
Thank you for your continued support of our preschool ministry.
2017 Golf Outing
The 24th annual ASLC Golf Outing will take place at
the historic Lake Zurich Golf Club on Thursday, July 20th with a Shot Gun start at 1:00 P.M. The event follows a scramble format.
The annual Golf Outing is simple just a fun event and
a great way to meet folks. You don’t need to be very good at golf as the game is a four-man team event and the teams are balanced with talent (or lack thereof.)
Golf will include the usual beverages and snacks. After golf, we will enjoy a delicious bar-b-que at the
church and award prizes. The golf fee will be $40, cart rental, if needed, will be $12 per person, while the banquet remains at $12 this year. The event, including the banquet, is again open to friends and family mem-bers.
We encourage new members to participate. And, for
us old timers, let’s get the new members to attend. So, grab your friends and sign up for a great time.
Put July 20th on your calendar and if you have
questions, please contact Dennis Kosko (Cell: 847-207-4888; e-mail: [email protected])
Committees Need You
Do you have a few hours a month to make All Saints a stronger place? We could use your help. You could help by joining a committee. It’s not as boring as it sounds. Each committee operates a little differently, but mostly you meet once per month and share your ideas and per-haps take on a small task or two. That’s it. But it makes a world of difference. If you’d like to help, we could use you with our Worship, Property (building maintenance), Outreach (making All Saints known in the community), Stewardship (helping us use all of our time and talents
and treasure wisely), Technology (computers and IT), Financial Support (money, money, money), Learning, Social Ministry and other Committees. Talk with ei-ther of the pastors and we’ll get you hooked up.
For All to Know Christ 3 Saints Alive! April 2017
Summer Suppers Project resumes May 10; Feeding the hungry is an ideal family opportunity
All Saints participation in the summer-long ecumenical program to feed the hun-gry in the Northwest suburbs, will resume Wednesday, May 10. The once-a-month Summer Suppers are an ideal opportunity for families with teens and tweens to vol-unteer together; Confirmation students can use Summer Suppers to accumulate service hours.
We will open our doors and serve a community meal on the second Wednesday of May, June, July, August and September—the months when the PADS shelters are closed. Holden Evening Prayer worship is at 7:30 p.m. on the same night as Sum-mer Supper and members of the congregation are welcome to be part of the com-munity and come for supper before worship. Supper is served starting at 6:30 p.m. and the doors close at 8 p.m.
Although the program was designed to provide nutritious meals for homeless per-sons during summer, all are welcome. All Saints posts information about the sup-pers at both the Palatine and Rolling Meadows Senior Centers and distributes flyers at both the Palatine Township and Bethel food pantries
Members can support the program by helping serve and clean up, cooking or buy-ing food or making by a donation. Each night we need a dozen volunteers as well as food-donors to cook and shop for the meals we serve. Volunteers each night work 2½ hour shifts starting at either 5:30 or 6 p.m. No training is required alt-hough youth volunteers must work with a parent.
A sign-up book is on the narthex table. Send email to [email protected] if you want more information.
April 25th, 7:00 pm
Evening Prayer in the spirit of Taizé (A contemplative evening of song,
scripture, and prayer.) At Holy Family Catholic Church
2515 Palatine Road,
Inverness, IL 60067
May 10th, 7:30 pm
Holden Evening Prayer (A traditional form using contemporary
language and music.) At All Saints Lutheran Church
Celebrating Our Oneness, Embracing Our Unity with Holy Family
In observance of the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation and in celebration of Christian unity, mark your calendars for two joint liturgical celebrations with Holy Family Catholic Church.
Cinco de Mayo Party One of our community partnership organizations, the POC (Partners for Our Communities), is holding its annual Cinco de Mayo fundraiser on Thursday, May 5. The event runs from 5:00-8:00 pm at Falcon Park in Palatine. Your $50 ticket gets you Mexican cuisine, live music and games, etc.
See Pastor Seth or visit http://www.poc.news for tickets.
Poker Party Come and join with All Saints for a casual poker
game on Friday, May 5th at 6:30. Bring $20-30 to play with, $5 to throw in for pizza, and BYOB if you’d like. All adults are welcome. RSVP to Pastor Seth at [email protected]
Faith and
Fellowship Group Meet before heading to the office or the rest of your day for Bible Study and con-
versation at 7:00 am on Wednesday mornings at Red Apple (2121 S. Plum Grove Rd. in Palatine).
If you are interested, talk to Pastor Seth so he can reserve a space. We can always make room.
Ladies Lunch Over the last few years the ladies of Bethel have
met on the 4th Thursday at 12:30 for lunch at the Red Apple. They plan on continuing this and would like the ladies of All Saints to join them. If you have any ques-tions, please call Pat Schmitt at 847-398-3124
No need to call anyone— just show up.
Men’s Lunch Over the last few years the men from Bethel have
met on the 3rd Thursday at 12:50 for lunch at the Red Apple. They plan on continuing this and would like the men from All Saints to join them.
No need to call anyone – just show up.
E-mail Lists
All Saints maintains several email lists to communicate with members. There are three different lists:
Publicity is for general publicity announcements.
Devotions is for our daily devotions.
Education is for parents of students age 3 through grade 8.
Weekly Sermon is to receive an e-mail video link to that week’s sermon.
If you’d like to sign yourself up for regular email communication from the church use this link: http://eepurl.com/1Z6Tj
Saints Alive! Deadline Articles for the May issue of Saint’s Alive! should be
submitted on or before April 25h.
Submissions can be placed in the Saint’s Alive! mailbox in the volunteer office or by e-mail to
[email protected] (e-mails are preferred.)
Questions and or other concerns can be directed to
the co-editors, Claudia and John Nicholas, by call-
ing 847-895-8039, or at the above e-mail address.
Social Media If you’re a Instagram,
Twitter, or Facebook user, make sure you include All Saints in your social media mix. Follow @ASLCPalatine on Twitter and Instagram and like “All Saints Lutheran Church” on Facebook.
For All to Know Christ 4 Saints Alive! April 2017
Recipe for Life 1 cup - Good Thoughts 1 cup - Kind Deeds 1 cup - Consideration for Others 3 cups - Forgiveness 2 cups - Well-Beaten Faults
Mix thoroughly and add tears of joy, sorrow and sympathy for others. Fold in 4 cups of Prayer and Faith to lighten other ingredients, and raise the texture to great heights of Christian living. After pouring this into your family, bake well with the heat of human kindness and serve with a smile.
Let’s Meet & Eat Surprising Find
What a surprise when I looked in the Prayer Shawl bin to find several added from our new members from Bethel. Thank you so much! We now have a good stock for the next couple of months.
As always, prayer shawls and baptismal blankets are welcome. Please give them to me and I will store them until the next bless-ing, which will be Sunday, May 7.
Again, thanks to all who have made this such a great ministry for our congregation.
Nancy Oakford
