You are invited to the All Saints Sunday with Holy Communion on November 2 at 10 am. The bulletin for this Sunday is available for viewing HERE.
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All Saints Sunday
with Holy Communion
Sunday, November 2, 2025, 10 am
Meaning of All Saints Sunday
All Saints Sunday is an annual reminder that Christian faith is a gift that is passed on from generation to generation. All Saints reminds us that we stand on the shoulders of all those faithful witnesses who have gone before us; the living and the dead.
The feast of All Saints teaches that grace is relational. We know and experience God’s love through the people God gave us in the past, God gives us in the present, and God will continue to give us in the future. God’s steadfast presence is revealed and made real through people who love God enough to allow God’s grace and light to flow through their lives that gives hope to the world.
Children’s Time: “When Forest Gump Goes to Heaven” by Pastor John
Message “Evolutionary Journey of the Soul” Rev. John Song
A few weeks ago, President Trump momentarily dropped the bombast and the playground insults and the self-congratulation to muse about his eternal soul. “I want to try and get to heaven, if possible,” he said. “I’m hearing I’m not doing well. I am really at the bottom of the totem pole.”
Prodded by a reporter this month to elaborate, he repeated the lament without much more explanation. “I’m being a little cute,” he said. But he went on: “I don’t think there’s anything that’s going to get me into heaven. I think I’m not maybe heaven-bound.”
Mr. Trump is hardly the first 79-year-old to dwell on what may come after he departs this mortal coil — or to wonder whether he has earned entry into the pearly gates. But it is so unlike Mr. Trump to express self-doubt that his public rumination has raised questions. What is on his mind lately that makes him fear his fate in the hereafter? What sins might he be regretting?
We will be reflecting on questions about life, death, and what may lie beyond. Does how I live and evolve in this life affect life hereafter? We will explore the ideas of the evolution of the soul towards ultimate perfection and merging with God. The concept is discussed in various spiritual traditions, with some identifying specific stages or cycles the soul progresses through.
1 Corinthians 13:12-13 ~ “We don’t yet see things clearly. We’re squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won’t be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We’ll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us! But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love.”
John 14:1-3 ~ “Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God and trust in me. In my Father’s mansion there are many dwelling places. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again to take you to myself, so that where I am, there you may be also.”
