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Pastor’s Message
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Prayer &
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Bishop’s Message
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Parish Paper
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Worship Group
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Scripture Reading
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May Calendar
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Pastor Alan’s Message on……
“Being There”
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ALL SAINTS
LUTHERAN CHURCH
314 S. Spruce Street
Spokane, WA 99201
509-838-4409
[email protected]
www.allsaintsgather.com
Facebook: All Saints Gather
SUNDAY WORSHIP
9:00am Bible Study
10:30am Worship
11:45am Fellowship Hour
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Church Staff
CELEBRATE
MAY!!!!!
Pastor
Alan B. Eschenbacher
Visitation Pastor
George Taylor
Organist
Nisha Coulter
Substitute Organist
Ty Peterson
Office Administrator
Teresa Freund
Custodians
Robert Chenault
John Holzendorf
BIRTHDAYS
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Willie Graf
Kiernan McKinley
Pam Shoemaker
Dee Priest
John Hill
Bobbie Furshong
Luella Eschenbacher
Council Members
President
Stacey Winkle
Vice President
Karen Bryant
Secretary
Maynard Ross
Treasurer
Eleanor Olson
Verna Bagby
Leona Chenault
Bryce Eschenbacher
John Holzendorf
Ryan McKinley
Dee Priest
Larry Ray
Financial Secretary
Cora Jelinek
ANNIVERSARIES
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ALL SAINTS GATHER
NEWSLETTER SUBMISSIONS
Rick & Patty Skocilich
Dave & Cora Jelinek
Wally & Camilla Phillipson
Email items to:
[email protected]
OR place ar ticles & submissions on the
desk in the office.
Deadline for the June Issue:
TUESDAY, MAY 26th
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“Being There”
friend, others will be introduced to someone and
make friends, still others will work into it by
happenstance. The beauty of it all is that God,
the Holy Spirit and the eternal Christ will be part
of the process. When we make the commitment
to come alongside folks in need, and if we do it
within the bounds of Christ’s love, the time spent
together will be blessed! The time together may
be peaceful and comfortable or it may be anxious
and tense, but we must trust that it will be fruitful in God’s sight. Even in the midst of disorder
and misery lies God’s unfathomable agenda and
we all should come to accept it and indeed relish
it. It seems counter intuitive to accept anything
less than order and the striving for perfection but
the reality of our place in the universe is NOT
one of order and certainly nothing is perfect. The
biggest problem we have as Christians is our resistance to the mystery of the cross. God took
what was the worst possible thing of that time,
crucifixion, and turned it into the best possible
thing, our salvation. The seemingly meaningless
tragedy was transformed, death became life, and
we are the beneficiaries of that new life!
By Pastor Alan Eschenbacher
In April and May, flowers and trees and grass
bring all the delights of spring rushing toward
our senses, the beautiful colors and greenery and
along with them the pollen! This has been a really good year for early spring allergies or bad
year, depending on how you look at it I suppose!
But good or bad, allergies or not, spring is moving on and will culminate in summer and then
fall and winter, the cycle goes on year after year,
and we are part of the cycle, changing a little
each year until we, eventually, cease to go on
and return to dust. The dust into which water was
added to make clay, which the Creator then
breathed life into to make that human that is
uniquely you. The circle of life represented in
each of us is gently held in place by the power of
the Creator and the Spirit and the eternal Christ.
Spring is the time of year when I most feel the
connection to the circle, and know that my circle
intersects many other circles in the place that is
called Spokane. It is these many points of connection with all of you and others that makes me
most aware of my gifts and my need to share
those gifts. We all come into this thing called life
with no road map or blueprints on how to make
it work, but with love from other humans and
grace from the Creator we learn how to navigate
the surface and plumb the depths of daily living.
I am more and more impressed and blessed by
the gifts of my brothers and sisters each day, as I
learn new and exciting ways to interact and “be
there” for others. The “ other” may be someone I
have known for many years or it may be a new
friend, either way I am seeing and living into
new ways of coming alongside them.
This is the beauty of the mental health companions program, brothers and sisters, some of who
may be at the lowest point of their life, in desperate need, can be shown the love of Christ in a
fellow human being. No pushing or pulling or
coercing but simply, a friend with the love of
Christ in their hearts and the will to “ be there”.
The Spokane Community Mental Health Companions just finished its first series of trainings.
Our first cohort is excited, alive and well and
ready to go forth with newfound love and care
for their fellow human beings. Each of those volunteers will, in their own way, come alongside
and care for a fellow human being in a variety of
settings. Many will find their own people to be3
PRAYER AT
ALL SAINTS
For the guidance of the Holy Spirit in the
future of All Saints
For Pastor Alan Eschenbacher
as he serves All Saints
"People of Christ, living in
community, working in
partnership,
doing the stuff of local ministry"
For Bishop Martin Wells
and the Synod Staff
For ELCA presiding Bishop
Elizabeth A. Eaton
For divine guidance for our country
Now there are varieties of gifts,
but the same spirit,
and there are varieties of service,
but the same LORD,
and there are varieties of workings,
but it is the same GOD who inspires them
all in every thing.
1 CORINTHIANS 12:4-6
Brian Dickerson, Craig Davenport, Judy Shoaf,
Dara Evans, Cindy Shepherd, Carol Bagby,
Beau & Robert Chenault, Dillon Brown,
Francis Sola, Ethan Sundheim, Connie Miles,
Arlene O’Brien, Leona Chenault, Gladys Reitan,
Susan Ballinger, Karl Antonson, Maynard Ross,
Carla Ross, Solveig Shepherd, Roxie Bryant
Love the LORD your God with all your heart,
and with all your soul and with all your mind ...
love your neighbor as yourself.
MATTHEW 22:37-40
Go and make disciples of all nations,
baptizing them
in the name of the FATHER, and of the SON,
and of the HOLY SPIRIT,
and teaching them to obey everything
I have commanded you,
and remember, I am with you always,
to the end of the age.
MATTHEW 28:19-20
For our Members in the Military
Paul Billings, Ben Coles,
Robert Guyton, Aaron Jelinek
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SPOKANE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH COMPANIONS
WHAT HAS BEEN DONE SINCE LAST SUMMER?
Last September, All Saints Lutheran Church received a 1 year grant from Empire Health Foundation to create a mental health companion program for Spokane.
Here is what has been accomplished in less than 10 months!
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20 lay volunteer companions have been trained (Dec. 2014-April 2015)
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All Saints now can train future companions (another group will start in September!)
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We have created effective connections that lets companions start to volunteer in existing
locations (West Central Mission, Women’s Hearth, All Saints Dinners, Eastern Washington
State Hospital, Mental Health Court)
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Our approach can be copied by others to provide individual, regular and safe companion
ship to individuals in the highest need areas of Spokane
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We adapted successful model (Seattle Mental Health Chaplaincy) to Spokane
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Our efforts can be documented by easy forms.
And most important of all, we have started to companion with those with mental health concerns!
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HOUSE CHURCH
BIBLE STUDIES
WOMEN’S BIBLE STUDY
Women’s Bible Study/Potluck Group
meeting Thursdays at 6pm.
2627 N Market St. #55
Please contact Dustie Hope if you have
any questions. 509-362-5911
Will meet on Wednesday,
May 13th at 11am in the
Fellowship Hall at All Saints.
Happy Springtime! We trust that you all had wonderful Easter celebrations! The
kids learned some more about what Easter is all about and they had their annual
Easter Egg Hunt.
Our fundraising event was a huge success. We want to thank Sue Luppert and her
crew for feeding us a wonderful brunch. The total is still not final, but we received nearly $7,000 in gifts and pledges. Thank you
from the bottoms of our hearts for helping us support the children and families of our neighborhood.
We are making plans for our summer program, including a community garden! Two of our neighbors, Debbie Kohal and Peggy
Piland have offered and have permission from the land owner, to start a community garden just around the corner from the
SPEAR Center. They will be supervising the kids and “managing” the garden. They have plans for raised, organic keyhole gardens. Their goal, and ours, is to not only to teach the kids about gardening, but to teach them where their food comes from and to
let them take food home that they raised. They need some supplies: kid-sized gloves, short handled rakes (3), short handled shovels or trowels (3), shears (2 pair small sized for trimming and 1 pair for medium trimming), 2 each hoses, spray nozzles and sprinklers, 1 Gorilla cart, 1 wheelbarrow, 3 sets of hand tools, and 3 (5-gallon) buckets (for tool totes). We will also need 1 bale of peat
moss, 1 large bag of perlite, 4 bags composted steer manure and/or composted garden soil, wood pallets (as many as we can get),
stakes for marking out garden beds, 3 rolls (4 mil) plastic film, gray pvc pipe for making greenhouse tops for the gardens, chicken
wire and hog wire for hanging and vertical gardens, markers to make the garden beds, raspberry, blackberry and grape starts (if
you are cleaning out your beds), cardboard (for lining the garden beds) rain gutter and rebar (for strawberry gardens), straw bales
for various uses. If you can help us with any of these items, we would love it. And, of course, if you would like to volunteer help
for the gardens, we would love that, too. Come by often to see our garden grow!
We have our gateway account set up with Thrivent to accept donations of stocks and bonds or a large one-time gift, if you would
like to support SPEAR with such gifts. The gateway account will allow you to make a tax-deductible gift where we can sell the
stock and put the money to work in a Thrivent product for SPEAR.
We have some more changes to the Board of Trustees – we have a couple of new members again, Carol Nelson of St. Marks, and
Diane Pointer Miller, a former SPEAR kid from SPEAR’s early days. Thank you to Carol and Diane! If you are interested in serving on the Board, please let us know, or come to any of our meetings – we meet on the second Monday evening of each month at
6:30 pm for visiting and 6:45 pm for business. New members are always welcome – we can have up to 11 members on the Board
and we have room for 3 more at this time. Please consider making a difference in the lives of our kids and their families by serving on the Board.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for all of your support for the SPEAR program! We cannot thank you enough for all of your support and helping hands. And if you would like to get involved with SPEAR, call Claudia Holtz at 244-2479 for more information,
or email her at [email protected] And check us out on Facebook! Search for SPEAR Spokane.
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May 3, 2015
Greeters/Ushers ............... Mark Wasmund & Bryce Eschenbacher
Altar Guild ............... Cora & Dave Jelinek
Coffee Hour ............... Eschenbacher & Wasmund Families
Mother’s Day—May 10, 2015
Greeters/Ushers ............... Pat & Bobbie Furshong
Altar Guild ............... Angie McKinley
Coffee Hour ............... Fellowship Committee & Diane Ogren
May 17, 2015
Greeters/Ushers ............... Don & Karen Bryant
Altar Guild ............... Angie McKinley
Coffee Hour ............... Jeremy & Stacey Winkle
May 24, 2015
Greeters/Ushers ............... Mark Lane & Connie Miles
Altar Guild ............... Angie McKinley
Coffee Hour ............... Pat & Bobbie Furshong,
Laurel Gittings
May 31, 2015
Greeters/Ushers ............... Mark Lane
Altar Guild ............... Cora & Dave Jelinek
Coffee Hour ............... Don & Karen Bryant
Worship Group #2 for May consists of:
Dave & Cora Jelinek, Ryan & Angie McKinley,
Bryce & Keely Eschenbacher, Erik Eschenbacher, Laurel Eschenbacher,
Mark & Bekah Wasmund, Mark Lane, Laurel Gittings, Lawney Deasy,
Alicia Lyons, Jerry Jacholkowski, Don & Karen Bryant, Connie Miles,
Pat & Bobbie Furshong, Jeremy & Stacey Winkle, Diane Ogren
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Friday—May 1st: Psalm 22:25-31/Amos 8:11-13/Acts 8:9-25
Saturday—May 2nd: Psalm 22:25-31/Amos 9:7-15/Mark 4:30-32
Fifth Sunday of Easter—May 3rd
Acts 8:26-40/Psalm 22:25-31/1 John 4:7-21/John 15:1-8
Monday—May 4th: Psalm 80/Isaiah 5:1-7/Galatians 5:16-26
Tuesday—May 5th: Psalm 80/Isaiah 32:9-20/James 3:17-18
Wednesday—May 6th: Psalm 80/Isaiah 65:17-25/John 14:18-31
Thursday—May 7th: Psalm 98/Isaiah 49:5-6/Acts 10:1-34
Friday—May 8th: Psalm 98/Isaiah 42:5-9/Acts 10:34-43
Saturday—May 9th: Psalm 98/Deuter onomy 32:44-47/Mark 10:42-45
Sixth Sunday of Easter—May 10th
Acts 10:44-48/Psalm 98/1 John 5:1-6/John 15:9-17
Monday—May 11th: Psalm 93/Deuter onomy 7:1-11/1 Timothy 6:11-12
Tuesday—May 12th: Psalm 93/Deuter onomy 11:1-17/1 Timothy 6:13-16
Wednesday—May 13th: Psalm 93/Deuter onomy 11:18-21/Mark 16:19-20
Ascension of Our Lord—Thursday—May 14th:
Acts 1:1-11/Psalm 47 or Psalm 93/Ephesians 1:15-23/Luke 24:44-53
Friday—May 15th: Psalm 47/Exodus 24:15-18/Revelation 1:9-18
Saturday—May 16th: Psalm 47/Deuter onomy 34:1-7/John 16:4-11
Seventh Sunday of Easter—May 17th
Acts 1:15-17, 21-26/Psalm 1/1 John 5:9-13/John 17:6-19
Monday—May 18th: Psalm 115/Exodus 28:29-38/Philippians 1:3-11
Tuesday—May 19th: Psalm 115/Number s 8:5-22/Titus 1:1-9
Wednesday—May 20th: Psalm 115/Ezr a 9:5-15/John 16:16-24
Thursday—May 21st: Psalm 33:12-22/Genesis 2:4b-7/1 Corinthians 15:42b-49
Friday—May 22nd: Psalm 33:12-22/Job 37:1-13/1 Corinthians 15:50-57
Saturday—May 23rd: Psalm 33:12-22/Exodus 15:6-11/John 7:37-39
Day of Pentecost—May 24th
Acts 2:1-21 or Ezekiel 37:1-14/Psalm 104:24-34, 35b
Romans 8:22-27 or Acts 2:1-21/John 15:26-27; 16:4b-15
Monday—May 25th: Psalm 104:24-34, 35b/Joel 2:18-29/1 Corinthians 12:4-11
Tuesday—May 26th: Psalm 104:24-34, 35b/Genesis 11:1-9/1 Corinthians 12:12-27
Wednesday—May 27th: Psalm 104:24-34, 35b/Ezekiel 37:1-14/John 20:19-23
Thursday—May 28th: Psalm 29/Isaiah 1:1-4, 16-20/Romans 8:1-8
Friday—May 29th: Psalm 29/Isaiah 2:1-5/Romans 8:9-11
Saturday—May 30th: Psalm 29/Isaiah 5:15-24/John 15:18-20, 26-27
The Holy Trinity—May 31st
Isaiah 6:1-8/Psalm 29/Romans 8:12-17/John 3:1-17
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Unless otherwise noted, ASLC Office is open 9:00am-3:30pm Monday-Friday
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Pr. Alan’s Day Off
MEMORIAL DAY
MAY 25TH
OFFICE CLOSED
MAY 10TH
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9am Bible Study
10:30am All Saints
Worship w/Comm
11:45am Fellowship
Hour
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5pm Community Dinner
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6:30pm Mar tial Ar ts
7pm Al West Bible St
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6:30pm Al West
Bible Study
6:30pm Council Meeting
8pm Addicts in Action
5pm Community Dinner
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9am NW Har vest
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6:30pm Mar tial Ar ts
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9am Quilter s
11am House Chur ch
Bible Study
9am Bible Study
10:30am All Saints
Worship w/Comm
11:45am Fellowship
Hour
12-4pm Ger mans
from Russia
8am-Noon Homeless
Coalition
6:30pm Al West
Bible Study
MOTHER’S DAY
Synod-All Day—
Conference Room
9am Quilter s
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Conference Room
9pm AA Meeting
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6:30pm Al West
Bible Study
5pm Community Dinner
8pm Addicts in Action
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9am Bible Study
10:30am All Saints
Worship w/Comm
11:45am Fellowship
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Pr. Alan’s Day Off
8pm Addicts in Action
9am Bible Study
10:30am All Saints
Worship w/Comm
11:45am Fellowship
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9pm AA Meeting
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Memorial Day
Office Closed
6:30pm Al West
Bible Study
8pm Addicts in Action
9pm AA Meeting
Newsletter Submissions
Due
5pm Community Dinner
6:30pm Mar tial Ar ts
7pm Al West Bible St
9am Quilter s
9pm AA Meeting