Outreach Opportunities

All Saints Parish Mission and Outreach Committee. If you are interested in participating on this committee, please contact Rev. Leslie Sterling at 617-738-1810 x18 or ammaleslie@earthlink.net.

Food Pantry. Please bring canned or packaged food to the basket at the entrance of All Saints. A volunteer is needed to transport the food to St. Paul's Church, 15 St. Paul Street in Brookline. For this and other ways to help, please call 617-566-4953.

Caring Friends is a ministry at All Saints in which those who are hurting receive the love and care they need to support them through on-to-one sharing. Caring Friends helps meet the needs of individuals who are hospitalized, terminally ill, bereaved, in a job crisis, disabled, going through a divorce, homebound or in a spiritual crisis. Caring Friends works through a referral process. For more information, please contact the Rector at 617-738-1810 x14 or rector@allsaintsbrookline.org.

Holy Eucharist and Bible Study at the Boston Pre-Release Center in Mattapan. Bible Study Fridays at 7:30 pm and worship service on Sundays at 9:30 am. If you are interested in joining us, please contact Tom Nutt-Powell at 617-739-7272, nuttpowell@aol.com or Anne Marie Ellis at 617-783-8355, ame43quilt@comcast.net.

Tsunami Disaster Relief. Please make checks payable to Episcopal Relief and Development/Asia Relief Fund and mail to: PO Box 12043, Newark, NJ 07101-5043. To make a donation with a credit card and for more information, please visit www.er-d.org.

Yang Jianli Update. Jianliís wife, Christina Fu and son, Aaron, were recently permitted less than a one-hour visit with him at the prison in Beijing. Christina confirmed the worries that other relatives had reported with regard to his health. This has reinforced U.S. lawmakersí attempts to advocate more insistently for his medical parole. Still, Christina believes that his faith and spirit remain strong and that he has very much welcomed postcards people have sent him (although he is still not permitted to send return mail to the United States). Christina asked me to express her thanks to all who have taken the time to write postcards to him. You should feel free to send a card again even if you have already done so. We will continue to have addressed/stamped postcards on the Welcome Table thanks to some generous parishioners. Please take one and write a message to Jianli. Then, place it in the basket on the table and it will be mailed promptly. Thank you for taking part in this important outreach. Jianliís address is Beijing City Chao Yang District, P.O. Box 2357- 15, Beijing, Postcode 100023, P.R. China. Postage to China is 70 cents for postcards. - Susan Cleaver

Liver Donor Needed for The Reverend Bob Massie. For information about Bob, his extraordinary ministry, the medical situation that threatens his life, how "living donor" transplants work, and other ways to help, please visit www.bobmassie.org.

MATCH-UP Interfaith Volunteers, a free service for seniors, offers friendly visitors or volunteers to escort you to doctor visits. Call 617-482-1510 to ask for help or to volunteer. MATCH-UP, 105 Chauncy St. Suite 801, Boston, MA 02111, www.matchelder.org.

Volunteers needed for help with All Saints mailings, three hours once a month. Please contact Susan Richard at 617-738-1810 or office@allsaintsbrookline.org.

Ordination of the Reverend Steven E. Maki

(L to R) The Rt. Rev. Steven Charleston, President of Episcopal Divinity School; The Rev. Steven Maki; The Rt. Rev. Percy Coffin, Bishop of Western Newfoundland; and the Rev. Daphne Noyes, Deacon. - photo by Anne Marie Ellis

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