On June 22nd, Join Us for an Historic Juneteenth Celebration at All Saints with St. Barnabas Church!
Join us on Sunday, June 22nd, at All Saints Church to not only celebrate Juneteenth with us but to help us continue to make history with our siblings from St. Barnabas Church. As we observe, reflect and celebrate the perseverance, determination, and creativity that Black people in America employed to bring about their freedom from enslavement, we will do that in a special joint service which will also be the very first of its kind here on this campus! In the founding of All Saints Church, the sin and lie of white supremacy used by white people to enslave people of African descent on this land, was also used to exclude our Black siblings from participating in a life of worship here in this community. Undeterred, Black people who were turned away from All Saints created a place of belonging for themselves that eventually became St. Barnabas Episcopal Church. As we celebrate emancipation on June 22nd, we are honored to do so in worship with our siblings at St. Barnabas Church, for the first time at All Saints since the founding of both parishes. While we grieve the reality that white supremacy has robbed us of this fellowship, we also are deeply grateful for the Beloved Community growing in our midst through repentance and repair.
The Rev. Mark Chase will preach. Canterbury Choir offers Hallelujah, Praise the Lord from Gospel Mass by Ray. ASL interpretation is available at 10:00 a.m.
We especially celebrate that during the 10:00 a.m. service we will dedicate and install in the nave an icon of Black Jesus as we continue the work of expanding the iconography in the church to represent our aspirational value of radical inclusivity. We offer gratitude to the H. Belfield Hannibal Chapter of the Union of Black Episcopalians and their president the Reverend Guy Leemhuis for the gift of the icon and to the Reverend Warner Traynham for its creation.
At 9:00 a.m. in Sweetland Hall, please make sure to join us as All Saint’s favorite Nikki High, historian, entrepreneur and owner of Octavia’s Bookshelf returns to All Saints to provide us with the historical significance of Juneteenth. Nikki will also have a pop-up book table with resources available for further education.
Finally, to complete this meaningful day please break bread with us on the lawn after the service at 11:30 a.m. with some delicious soul food from Alice’s Southern Comfort Gumbo! The tent will be up providing refreshing shade, and a well-curated playlist will supply the afternoon’s accompaniment. It’s all free of charge. Simply bring a friend, and an appetite.
For more information visit our website www.allsaints-pas.org or call 626.796.1172.
