Welcome to All Saints’ Episcopal Church

ALL SERVICES & GATHERINGS SUSPENDED
until further notice.
Please join us HERE virtually each week.
Services will be posted by 8am every Sunday.

PLEASE READ 3/19/20 – From the Interim Rector: Being Church in a Pandemic

COVID-19 REPONSE UPDATE LOG – Updated 3/21/20

SUNDAY WORSHIP for March, 29, 2020 found below.
Weekly Order of Services
Meet us for a Virtual Fellowship Hour at 11am!  Zoom link in you e-bulletin.
Past Online Worship Videos & Sermons

10 Billerica Road, Chelmsford, MA 01824. Phone: 978-256-5673 (LORD)

Click here for the All Saints’ Calendar

  • New stone lighting - part of Living Stones projects

We are a welcoming community that seeks to follow Jesus Christ with all that we are and all that we have. Through worship, fellowship, education, and outreach we open ourselves to God and our neighbor.

Our Sunday Schedule:
8 AM + Holy Communion
10 AM + Holy Communion with music and nursery.
Lower Church School gathers at 9:45 AM
Upper Church School sits together in worship; classes begin at 11:20 AM

Whoever you are, wherever you are on your journey of faith: we invite you to join us!

Online Resources for Church School Lenten & Easter Crafts

All families in the Church School will be receiving a mailing with craft supplies for Lenten and Easter crafts. To cut down on mailing costs, I am posting the directions for using these materials here as downloadable files in the pdf format. Let me know if you have any trouble accessing and I can email them to you directly.  Laura at churchschool@allsaintschelmsford.org

 

 

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Butterfly Craft: Passion FOR KIDSDownlad

Church School Online ~ Upper School ~ March 15th

The Upper School kids had a great first week of online church school! There were 14 kids present!! All Saints’ Upper School is for kids in grades 5th- 12th. The start time is 11:30- show up a little early to chat and say hi! The talk this week was about the Stations of the Cross by David Kercher. It was excellent! You can view the talk on the church website- it will be posted later this week.

We will be holding Upper School class online for the foreseeable future. It is easy to join- I will email out a link to all registered families in the church school every Friday- you should feel free to share it and invite youth to join- it costs nothing. And it is so nice to see each other and talk about God together.

Art from Online Church School ~ Lower School ~ March 15th

We had our first online Church School this Sunday. The younger kids class was at 9:15am and we had 14 kids there! This is such an easy way to see each other and stay connected- we will be holding class this way each week while we are in this situation- all are invited to join us! I will be emailing out the Invitation Link to registered church school families every Friday. Feel free to share it with family and friends.

The story this week was the birth of Jesus and the time he went to the temple and Mary and Joseph searched for him:  “Why were you searching for me?” he asked. “Didn’t you know I had to be in my Father’s house?” Luke 2:49

 

  • Lucas Felzani

Church School is now ONLINE!

As we all adjust to the impact of the coronavirus, we want to continue to come together as a Church School community at All Saints. We are suspending church school at the church at this time.  But we still will be holding church school. To support that safely we have arranged for a Lower School class (kids pre-k to 4th) of Godly Play to be offered at 9:15-9:45 online this Sunday morning, and an Upper School class (5th-12th grade) conversation about the Stations of the Cross from 11:30-noon. 
 
The platform we are using for this is called Zoom. It is free to use. You can join the class on a computer, a tablet or a phone. On a computer, you will be asked to run the Zoom software (free and downloadable). And for the tablet and the phone you will need to download the Zoom App (free) from the App Store. We have tested it out and it is easy to use and fun! You will be able to see each other and talk in a conversational way. It will be so nice to see each other!! The classes will be lead by Sunday School teachers, and you should feel free to join both if you like. 
 
Please email me for the invitation to the classes at churchschool@allsaintschelmsford.org and let me know which class you would like to join. See you then!!

Sermon: “Venturing Out Beyond Our Fears” – March 8th, 2020

The Rev. Dr. Paul Kolbet

Isaiah 42:1-9, Psalm 29, Acts 10:34-43, Matthew 3:13-17

In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. In our Gospel reading, we find Nicodemus. He was a good man, a teacher, and a keeper of the law, yet, even though doing so much that was right, he still struggled with a need that he had. We are not told specifically what it was, but when you need something, in a sense, it doesn’t matter why or what, it just matters that you feel the need. Whatever it was, it was pressing enough that he ventured out in the dark, at night, alone, looking to have a conversation with Jesus. There is something so AD 30 about this story. In 2020, he probably would have asked his phone, right? Or maybe, after calculating the rick of encountering the Novel Coronavirus, he would have stayed home Googling for answers?

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