Covid-19 Protocols (as of 1/30/23): Because Los Angeles County, including Pasadena, currently have low levels of COVID-19, masks are strongly recommended, but not required, for everyone indoors. Masks are optional outdoors. 

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Please GIVE to Episcopal Relief & Development to Help Turkey and Syria
A devastating 7.8-magnitude earthquake recently struck southeast Turkey and northern Syria. The reported death toll is over 20,000 and climbing after thousands of buildings crumbled, burying civilians beneath the rubble. Please help us work with our local partners to provide relief and support. Make an urgent tax-deductible donation to Episcopal Relief & Development today.

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On Sunday, February 12, Susan Russell preaches at both 7:30 a.m. in the Chapel and at 10:00 a.m. in the church. At 10:00, Coventry Choir offers Ain’t Got Time to Die by Johnson with soloist Daniel Ramon. Trouvères youth choir offers Will You Harbor Me? by Barnwell.

At 9:00 a.m. in the Forum – Black History is The Future: The Legacy of Octavia Butler and Black Authorship Today
with Nikki High, Ayana Jamieson and Tamisha Tyler
Pasadena is set to get another independent bookstore: Octavia’s Bookshelf. Owner Nikki High said she’ hopes’s going to highlight authors who are Black, Indigenous, and other people of color. High chose the name as a tribute to Pasadena native, science-fiction author and MacArthur fellow Octavia Butler who died in 2006. “She was the first Black sci-fi writer that I read, and it was the first time that I saw Black people in the future,” High said. Octavia’s Bookshelf is scheduled to open in February at 1361 North Hill Avenue in Pasadena.
Ayana Jamieson is the founder of Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network. Her work centers around the intersections of critical depth psychology, race, culture, and mythology. As an interdisciplinary scholar, Ayana’s dissertation “Certainty of the Flesh: A Biomythograchical Reading of Octavia E. Butler’s Fictions” explores Butler’s biographical origins and the mythic aspects of her literary work.
Tamisha A Tyler, MDiv, is a PhD Candidate in Theology and Culture. Her work focuses on Theopoetics and the arts, with her most recent project centering on the work of Octavia E. Butler. She serves in leadership at Kinship Commons, a worship collective that designs worship experiences centering the work and life of people of color.
If you can join us in person, we would love to see you! If not, stream the Forum live here.

Also at 9:00 a.m. join Ahren Martinez for the arts, crafts, music and good vibes of Family Hour — for parents and children (kindergarten through fifth grade) before the 10:00 a.m. service. Parents are welcome to participate or drop children off. Join us in the Learning Center (top floor of Regas House) for music, art, and fun! For more information, contact Ahren at amartinez@allsaints-pas.org.

Join Greeter Jenn McGaw in our Online Coffee Hour on Zoom following the 10:00 service.

Also this Sunday at 12:00 noon in Sweetland Hall, Women’s Community invites you to their rescheduled Holiday Party: The Power of Love, Benefitting All Saints Safe Haven Bridge to Housing. Featuring Live Music and Good Food!! Meet and greet new and old friends! We will provide a light lunch served by cheerful members of Women’s Community! If life is such that you can’t afford a donation, you are still welcome! All net proceeds will benefit the purchase of Holiday Gift Backpacks stuffed with hat, gloves, blankets, snacks, socks and other needed items for our un-housed community members in the Safe Haven Bridge to Housing Program All Saints. $25 Registration Fee & lunch; $50 Fee Sponsors a backpack! Sponsorship opportunities at the event will allow you to donate additional funds to underwrite these gifts. Register online here (all previous registrations will still be honored at the luncheon). Information = Amanda McCormick, amccormick@allsaints-pas.org.

And from 5:00 – 7:30 p.m., The Interfaith Study Group offers The Changing News Landscape: From Cronkite to Fake News at the Islamic Center of Southern California, 434 S Vermont Ave, Los Angeles. Join them for Val Zavala‘s presentation of “The Changing News Landscape.” Ms. Zavala spent 30 years as a broadcast journalist at KCET public television in LA – winning numerous journalism awards, including 19 LA Area Emmy® Awards. She retired in 2018. During her time at LA’s preeminent PBS station, she served as a reporter, anchor, producer and VP of News and Public Affairs. For much of that time she was also anchor of Life & Times and executive producer/anchor of SoCal Connected. Please bring an open heart and mind willing to listen and learn, and a vegetarian dish to share in our potluck. The Interfaith Study Group is sponsored by: All Saints Church, Pasadena, Islamic Center of Southern Ca. Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center. Information = Amanda McCormick, amccormick@allsaints-pas.org.

Streaming at 9:00 and 10:00 a.m. is offered on our website’s live stream page, our Facebook page and our YouTube channel. Check out our live streaming page to download service leaflets and take part in our action of the week.

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For in-person worship, our guiding principle remains to follow common sense risk reduction guidance for as long as we remain in a declared public health pandemic, so to keep our community safe and well, our in-person worship guidelines include:

• (as of 1/30/23) Because Los Angeles County, including Pasadena, currently have low levels of COVID-19, masks are strongly recommended, but not required, for everyone indoors.
• Masks are optional outdoors.
• Both outdoor and indoor seating is available for services and communion will be served in both locations.
• Our expectation is that those entering the church will be vaccinated (if vaccination is available to them)
• Those who choose to be unvaccinated are requested to participate online.
• Those seated indoors are asked to maintain social distance between individuals/households.
• If we reach seating capacity in the church, ushers will guide you to alternative seating areas.
• We ask you not enter if you are experiencing any of the following symptoms: fever over 100.4°F or chills, cough, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, fatigue, muscle or body aches, headache, new loss of taste or smell, sore throat, congestion or runny nose, nausea or vomiting, diarrhea, or if you have had contact in the last 14 days with someone diagnosed with or suspected to have COVID- 19.