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Year End Giving
As the end of 2018 rolls into sight, we’re celebrating the many ways God has led All Souls this past year. All Souls continues in the truly unique and beautiful place of attracting people in all stages of the spiritual journey. Thank you for the many ways that you have generously contributed! End of year giving helps to sustain and plan for the future. We would love to see an extra 20,000 dollars…
As the end of 2018 rolls into sight, we’re celebrating the many ways God has led All Souls this past year. All Souls continues in the truly unique and beautiful place of attracting people in all stages of the spiritual journey. Thank you for the many ways that you have generously contributed! End of year giving helps to sustain and plan for the future. We would love to see an extra 20,000 dollars come in for the month of December to cover the shortfall for the past 6 months and to be able to live into our vision for the coming year.
If everyone were to give an extra 150 dollars this month we could reach that goal!
The most helpful way to support All Souls is to setup a recurring donation on Faith Street.
Would you consider partnering with us as we pursue this vision by making a year-end gift to All Souls? As a small church, these gifts make up a significant percentage of our budget each year and your contributions make an important impact.
$20,000
Goal
Engaging Story
God’s story is not detached from our lived experience. Through story telling and self knowing we pay attention to our lives, learning to embrace our whole selves, the ugly and admirable parts alike. Through knowing and telling our stories we find ourselves caught up in God’s story and continue the journey back to our true selves.
God’s story is not detached from our lived experience. Through story telling and self knowing we pay attention to our lives, learning to embrace our whole selves, the ugly and admirable parts alike. Through knowing and telling our stories we find ourselves caught up in God’s story and continue the journey back to our true selves.
RESOURCES
The Enneagram a very old tool that has proven to be a helpful resource for discovering and finding our way back to our true self. Not sure about it? Check out this helpful blog exploring it’s use among Christians
The Gift of Being Yourself, by David Benner. A short and excellent guide to begin the process of what Benner calls the sacred call to self discovery. Read it slowly
Service
The Christian spiritual journey is always done for the sake of a greater purpose than ours. Serving others draws us out of our self-focus and shapes us into the self-giving image of Jesus. Join other All Souls folks serving our community
The Christian spiritual journey is always done for the sake of a greater purpose than ours. Serving others draws us out of our self-focus and shapes us into the self-giving image of Jesus. Join other All Souls folks serving our community
Contemplation
Cultivating “being” with God distinct from talking to God. These are practices focused on being present to God’s Spirit in you and in the world. We encourage engaging in this type of presence via ancient practices like walking a labyrinth and contemplative prayers as well as learning from our own experiences by telling our stories…
Cultivating “being” with God distinct from talking to God. These are practices focused on being present to God’s Spirit in you and in the world. We encourage engaging in this type of presence via ancient practices like walking a labyrinth and contemplative prayers as well as learning from our own experiences by telling our stories. These are old practices that modern Christians are rediscovering. In them many are experiencing the gracious and merciful God they’ve longed for and are being animated to be gentle with themselves and others because of this encounter.
RESOURCES
Contemplative Resource Guide: A downloadable booklet with simple practices to engage.
Into the Silent Land by Martin Laird: A theoretical and practical introduction to contemplation.
Contemplative Prayer video, by Martin Laird (start on minute 7). A lecture that covers most of the content from Into the Silent Land
The Inner Experience by Thomas Merton: An introduction into exploring the interior life and Christian
Study + Read
Take in God’s word so that it’s message becomes our vernacular. Read/study together with others; move beyond our own myopic interpretations.
We seek to purposefully take in God’s word so that it’s message becomes our vernacular, it’s promises our vision and it’s mission our purpose.
RESOURCES
Pray as You Go: A simple daily 10-12 minute prayer and scripture reading podcast. Apps for ios and Android
Sacredspace: A daily prayer site with prompts and scripture readings that includes space to journal your reflections.
Mission St. Clare: An online Daily Office.
Seeking God’s Face: Simple daily scripture readings and prayer prompts
The Apostles' Creed
I believe in God, the Father almighty,
creator of heaven and earth.
I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord.
He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit
and born of the Virgin Mary.
He suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died, and was buried.
He descended to the dead.
On the third day he rose again.
He ascended into heaven,
and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
He will come again to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy catholic Church*,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and the life everlasting. Amen.
The Nicene Creed
We believe in one God,
the Father, the Almighty,
maker of heaven and earth,
of all that is, seen and unseen.
We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ,
the only Son of God,
eternally begotten of the Father,
God from God, Light from Light,
true God from true God,
begotten, not made,
of one being with the Father;
through him all things were made.
For us and for our salvation
he came down from heaven:
was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary,
and became truly human.
For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate;
he suffered death and was buried.
On the third day he rose again
in accordance with the Scriptures;
he ascended into heaven
and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead,
and his kingdom will have no end.
We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life,
who proceeds from the Father and the Son,
who with the Father and the Son is worshiped and glorified,
who has spoken through the prophets.
We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church.
We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins.
We look for the resurrection of the dead,
and the life of the world to come. Amen.
The Athanasian Creed
Whoever wants to be saved should above all cling to the catholic faith.
Whoever does not guard it whole and inviolable will doubtless perish eternally.
Now this is the catholic faith: We worship one God in trinity and the Trinity in unity, neither confusing the persons nor dividing the divine being.
For the Father is one person, the Son is another, and the Spirit is still another.
But the deity of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is one, equal in glory, coeternal in majesty.
What the Father is, the Son is, and so is the Holy Spirit.
Uncreated is the Father; uncreated is the Son; uncreated is the Spirit.
The Father is infinite; the Son is infinite; the Holy Spirit is infinite.
Eternal is the Father; eternal is the Son; eternal is the Spirit: And yet there are not three eternal beings, but one who is eternal; as there are not three uncreated and unlimited beings, but one who is uncreated and unlimited.
Almighty is the Father; almighty is the Son; almighty is the Spirit: And yet there are not three almighty beings, but one who is almighty.
Thus the Father is God; the Son is God; the Holy Spirit is God: And yet there are not three gods, but one God.
Thus the Father is Lord; the Son is Lord; the Holy Spirit is Lord: And yet there are not three lords, but one Lord.
As Christian truth compels us to acknowledge each distinct person as God and Lord, so catholic religion forbids us to say that there are three gods or lords.
The Father was neither made nor created nor begotten; the Son was neither made nor created, but was alone begotten of the Father; the Spirit was neither made nor created, but is proceeding from the Father and the Son.
Thus there is one Father, not three fathers; one Son, not three sons; one Holy Spirit, not three spirits.
And in this Trinity, no one is before or after, greater or less than the other; but all three persons are in themselves, coeternal and coequal; and so we must worship the Trinity in unity and the one God in three persons.
Whoever wants to be saved should think thus about the Trinity.
It is necessary for eternal salvation that one also faithfully believe that our Lord Jesus Christ became flesh.
For this is the true faith that we believe and confess: That our Lord Jesus Christ, God’s Son, is both God and man.
He is God, begotten before all worlds from the being of the Father, and he is man, born in the world from the being of his mother — existing fully as God, and fully as man with a rational soul and a human body; equal to the Father in divinity, subordinate to the Father in humanity.
Although he is God and man, he is not divided, but is one Christ.
He is united because God has taken humanity into himself; he does not transform deity into humanity.
He is completely one in the unity of his person, without confusing his natures.
For as the rational soul and body are one person, so the one Christ is God and man.
He suffered death for our salvation. He descended into hell and rose again from the dead.
He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
He will come again to judge the living and the dead.
At his coming all people shall rise bodily to give an account of their own deeds.
Those who have done good will enter eternal life, those who have done evil will enter eternal fire.
This is the catholic faith.
One cannot be saved without believing this firmly and faithfully.