Welcome to all things Centennial.

Focused on Engaging Our Past and Growing into God’s Future, All Saints Church continues to mark the 100th anniversary of the dedication of its current church building with a year of commemoration, reflection and celebration. The current church is the third building to serve the congregation since its founding in 1883 — the second at 132 Euclid — and marking the building’s 100th birthday offers an opportunity for the parish to both engage in the past and imagine the future as a faith community committed to living out God’s love, justice and compassion in the world.

Collect for All Saints’ Centennial Sunday

Holy God, we give you thanks for the gift of marking one hundred years of worship, work and witness from this sacred space. We celebrate all those on whose shoulders we stand and their legacy of aspiring to live out your call to be beacons of love, justice, and compassion in our beautiful and broken world. We lament all those times in our history when we have failed to live up to those values through our participation in systemic oppression in all its forms.

On this Centennial Sunday we lift up in particular our complicity in Jim Crow segregation which excluded people of African descent from worshipping in this space and contributed, also 100 years ago, to the creation of our sibling congregation, Saint Barnabas Episcopal Church. And as we move into your future, we ask you to empower and equip us with the will, the power, the courage, and the imagination to be agents of hope, healing, restoration, and reconciliation on the journey to becoming the Beloved Community you created us to be. All this we ask in the name of our brother Jesus. Amen.

Commemorative Centennial Liturgy Booklet from the Sunday, September 15, 2024 Centennial/Homecoming Service.

Bishop John Taylor’s Centennial Sunday Sermon “Safe at Home”— preached on Sunday, September 15, 2024.

Centennial Time Line — History of the ongoing journey of All Saints Church striving to become the Beloved Community God has called us to be.

Meet some of the saints of All Saints in our Centennial Conversations – saints who have been part of making All Saints Church what it is, and who are calling on it to continue to become all that it can be. Click on the pictures to see the articles, click on the “see whole email” links to see the entire Centennial Conversation emails with photos, and click on “see whole SA” to see the entire Saints Alive issue, where applicable.

Alma Stokes See whole email	Shizuko Akasaki See whole email	Jim White See whole email	Diana Sedenquist See whole email	Jean Bruce Poole See whole email	Terry Gock See whole email
Gloria Pitzer See whole email	Sarah Tatum See whole email	Bob Sukhanusasna See whole email

“From the Archives” Audio Podcasts: Celebrating our Centennial Year theme of “engaging our past in order to imagine our future” we dug into our archives for some seminal moments from the All Saints pulpit and Forum. Here is the first series of what we plan to be an ongoing project of preserving the pastoral and prophetic witness from 132 North Euclid. Yet to be posted, upcoming installments are in black & white:

Cecil “Chip” Murray 1/15/2006 “Waking Up to Your Dreams“	George Regas 10/31/2004 “If Jesus Debated Senator Kerry and President Bush“	Desmond Tutu 11/6/2005 “All Are to Be Held in the Incredible Embrace of the Love that Will Not Let Us Go“	Zelda Kennedy 7/10/2016 “Stepping Outside of Your Comfort Zone“	Bryan Stevenson 2/28/2016 “You’ve Got to Be Brave, Brave, Brave“	Ed Bacon 11/13/2005 “The IRS Goes to Church“

Videos of Centennial Year Presentations: Archive of Centennial offerings throughout this celebratory year of reflection and remembrance:

“Commemoration: Centennial Conversation” on Cornerstone Sunday, October 8, 2023
“Reflection: A Centennial Conversation” on Sunday, October 15, 2023
“Celebration: A Centennial Conversation” on Sunday, October 22, 2023

– Centennial Conversations From the Archives: An interview with Marty Coleman
– The Women’s History Forum, Sunday, March 17, 2024: “How What We Learn from 1974 Prepares Us for 2024“
– LGBTQ+ Pride Month Forum, Sunday, June 9, 2024 “Beyond Inclusion to Celebration of God’s LGBTQ+ Beloved“