<!-- Alternate content for non-supporting browsers --> <p align="left" class="style8 style21">A Letter from the Rector </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0;"> </p> <p align="left" style="margin-top:0;"><span class="style15">September 28, 2009</span></p> <p class="style15">Dear All Saints’ Family:</p> <p class="style15">As I write this, I am just finishing my first month as rector of All Saints’, and what a month it has been! I have been immersing myself in the life of this community: meeting with ministry groups, staff and parish leaders, and getting to know as many people as I can. Every day I am more impressed with the love for and commitment to All Saints’ that I see and hear.</p> <p class="style15">But where does that commitment come from? Usually it comes from a life-giving experience. Someone has a transformational encounter at All Saints’ and becomes more involved here, determined to make a similar life-giving experience available to others. And so I’ve met a pastoral caregiver who once received care, and a choir member who learned about All Saints’ from attending a profound funeral here, and parents of grown children who want to see other children formed in the faith as theirs were. And so on. As Scripture reminds us, the light of faith isn’t meant to be kept under a basket; we pass it on to others that they, too, may see and be warmed by its brightness.</p> <p class="style15">What transformational experiences have you had at All Saints’? How has God touched you here? Through Sunday or weekday worship, a wedding or funeral, or a baptism? A concert, a class, a prayer group? A program for children, youth and families? For seniors? Attending or supporting the day school? An outreach to our city, to victims of disaster across our nation or around the world? Pastoral care with our clergy or our lay volunteers? A friendship you made, or a person you helped?</p> <p class="style15">As you prayerfully consider your financial support for All Saints’ this year, I hope you will pause to reflect on the moments here that have given your life a sense of meaning and connection, solace or hope. And then, I ask you to give sacrificially this year in our pledge campaign.</p> <p class="style15">Don’t just give because All Saints’ needs it, though we do. Don’t just give out of enthusiasm for our new leadership and fresh beginnings, though these are exciting. Give out of gratitude to God for all that God has given you in your life. Even in these challenging economic times, give in thanksgiving for the love of God you have felt at All Saints’.</p> <p class="style15">I truly believe that if each of us prayerfully reflects on all that God has done for us in our lives and in this community of faith, we will reach our pledge goal of $1.2 million and 650 pledging households by the formal end of our pledge campaign on November 22nd, the feast of Christ the King.</p> <p class="style15">Enclosed you will find a pledge card. I hope you will fill it out and return it in the enclosed envelope before November 22nd in thanksgiving for God’s blessings and in support of All Saints’. And I thank you for all that you do in support of this special place.</p> <p><span style="font-size: 15px">Faithfully,<br> <span class="style16">The Reverend Poulson C. Reed</span></span><br> </p>
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