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Outreach OpportunitiesAll Saints Parish Mission and Outreach Committee. If you are interested in participating on this committee, please contact Sue LeClaire at sleclaire@comcast.net or the Rev. Leslie Sterling at 617-738-1810 x18 or ammaleslie@earthlink.net. Dinner for the Poor and Homeless. The next dinner that All Saints will prepare and serve for the Poor and Homeless of Boston will be August 11. Preparation begins at 2:30 in the kitchen of All Saints. Food will be transported to St. John the Evangelist, 35 Bowdoin Street, about 4:00. Final food preparation and table set-up begins about 5:00 at St. John's. Dinner is served at 6:00 and Eucharist is celebrated at 7:00. There are lots of opportunities to help. Please contact AnneMarie Ellis if you have any questions, (617) 783-8355 or ame43quilt@comcast.net. The Reverend Dr. John A. Moulton will speak at the Liturgies on August 27 and 28. Father Moulton will share what he has witnessed and will be providing us with insights about the very special work being accomplished in the Caribbean and Latin America through FOOD FOR THE POOR. FOOD FOR THE POOR is a non-profit charitable trust organized in the State of Florida for the purpose of improving the health, economic, and social conditions of the indigent of Haiti, Jamaica, El Salvador, Nicaragua and other countries in the Caribbean and Latin America. A host is needed to provide transportation to and from the airport and to provide lodging for Father Moulton. If you can help, please contact David Killian at rectord@allsaintsbrookline.org or Stefani Schatz at reled@allsaintsbrookline.org. Greater Boston Interfaith Organization. On May 26, GBIO leaders joined together 1200-strong at Temple Israel to pledge support for the proposed Health Access and Affordability Act (HB 2569, SB 806). We proclaimed our stories of the healthcare crisis in Massachusetts and recognized area senators and representatives who support this important legislation. Please call David Pfarrer 617-448-0618 or Sarah Leinbach 617-277-0233 for more info. 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.
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. No Cost Home Energy Assessment. All Saints Parish is a member of Massachusetts Interfaith Power and Light (MIP&L). Therefore you are eligible for a special home energy assessment at no cost. The home energy assessment request form is available on the table in the back of the sanctuary or at www.MIPandL.org (click on the "Request Audit" button). Please take advantage of this free assessment and the chance to improve your environmental stewardship. Questions? Contact Tom Nutt-Powell at 617-734-8944. Charles River Deanery ActivitiesBy Joyce Spencer The Charles River Deanery met on Sunday, June 12, at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Wellesley, with attendees escaping heat and humidity in their air-conditioned basement meeting hall. After taking care of Deanery business details Deborah Warner of St. Dunstan's Episcopal Church, Dover, and Miriam Gelfer of Grace Church, Newton, facilitated a three part meeting that included information about a new consulting program, an update of the Barbara C. Harris Camp and Conference Center, and news of an international mission in Belize. Rick Wheeler of Trinity Church, Concord, informed us of a new program, The Business Systems and Property Consultants Program This program is run by volunteers assigned to specific deaneries who can be contacted for consulting support. Rick and his colleague Wally Hart are the Charles River Deanery consultants. The objective of this program is to help individual churches maintain smoothly running business and property systems. The specific areas are: administration, audits, business methods, development, investment, legal, and property. Already the consultants have dealt with subjects as varying as planned giving and computer software systems for church use. Beth Grundy of Christ Church, Swansea, spoke enthusiastically of the Barbara C. Harris Camp and Conference Center and its goals to become even more active than at present. She described its history, its present use, and its personnel. The fully accredited summer camp program combines Bible study with traditional camp programs and community building over the camper's stay. This can vary from one week to the five weeks the camp is open. They hope to fill all camper slots and would like to encourage you to think about this experience for your children. The first week of camp starts in early July. The Conference Center is a year-round offering with a fee of $120 per person per night that includes three meals and bedding. The fall is a busy season, so if that is your pleasure, make reservations well in advance. Check out more detailed information at http://www.bchcenter.org/. The final part of the meeting was devoted to an international mission project that combined the skills of twelve teenagers and eight adults in a project in San Ignacio, Belize. The goal was to build a computer lab in an existing structure. Mark McKone-Sweet of the Parish of St. Paul in Newton Highlands narrated a Power Point slide show of the project and two high school students commented on the activities shown in the photographs. (I was especially thrilled to see one of them, a former fourth-grade student of mine, who is now a junior at South High.) Previous work by other mission groups had gotten the building to this point and this team will be followed by another in June that will move the fully tested computer setup into the new structure. Mark described all aspects of this project from conception to implementation, down to an impressively detailed code-of-conduct that the teens themselves wrote and followed. Mark credited a contact person in Belize for her efforts in seeing that the week's stay went without snags. From the Rector | Liturgy | Good News & Opportunities
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