All Souls seeks to be a perfect place for imperfect people – a place of common ground where anyone from any background can plug in and find hope.
We want to create a safe, healing, and transformative environment that enables people to search for their purpose and ask the important, hard questions in life. We want to enable opportunities to connect with others and move beyond acquaintances to friendships. Our desire is to help others realize their potential through a one-on-one connection with God. We want to express our commitment to the principles of Jesus with acts of love and service.
Hope is the gift that God gives to each of us.
Hope is the gift that God gives to each of us. It is the difference between a life well led and one of anguish and heartache. Through hope 2000 years ago, Jesus was able to shows his followers a better way of living and the means to achieve it. He does the same for us today. Hope gives us a window into the way things could be...the way that we could be. It shows us the kind of person that God sees each of us as.
Acceptance is rooted in the knowledge none of us are perfect.
One member's story:
One day, someone sent an email to the entire congregation telling them of my past ...which was not anything to be proud of. It was a detailed description of how I contributed to the loss of my marriage... of which I share a large part of the blame. The email described many of my faults and failures...
Yet another parishioner does this one. Here is the intro to the writing.
Here, the parishioner gives a testimony, a Life Story. This should be about 1000 words long and a picture of the person should be included in the picture below of this column. This could be a way to put a real face on the church.
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