All Saints

Nov 2 will be here soon – and that makes now the time to talk about All Saints Sunday at FCC.

All Saints falls just after Halloween (fun trivia fact: that better-known holiday takes its name and date from All Saints – because it is the evening, or Eve, before All Hallows Day!). In church life, All Saints Sunday is a day to remember the everyday “saints” who’ve already passed on from this life -- and to memorialize church members who’ve died over the past year.  

In Disciples Hall on this Sunday, a display will hold pictures of our “church saints” (those from this fellowship of faith whom we’ve lost in the last year).  It will also hold open spaces for you to fill. We invite ANYONE to bring in a picture or memento of someone in YOUR life who has loved you well and furthered your faith, to loan to our table.  We’ll make the memorial that morning, and you can take home your contributions after church.

In Contemporary worship, we also have a tradition of writing the names of saints – beloved family and friends, beyond FCC -- on prayer flags, ribbons or a table drape. In each service, we’ll list FCC’s “small-case saints,” and explain a bit about this faith tradition that predates Protestantism, but is found across all expressions of Christianity.