The Outreach Committee is committed to seeking out and holding up ways to minister to those in need. We commit intensive, hands-on, and parish-wide resources to meeting these needs, and to offering parishioners ways to be involved in this work on many different levels.
Ministries of Mercy
- All Saints is a member parish of the Haiti Outreach Mission, a group of Episcopal and Roman Catholic churches which operates a clinic and orphanage in Mirebalais, Haiti. We join in the annual mission trip to Mirebalais which is coordinated by HOM. We also support Wisnel Dejardin, a Haitian seminarian studying at Virginia Theological Seminary.
- Each Lent, we take a weekly Rice Bowl offering, which is designated to support an outreach organization chosen each year by the Outreach Committee.
- Each fall, we sponsor, with other area churches, a holiday sale of fruit and greens, proceeds from which go a Housing Assistance Fund, which supports area agencies as formerly-homeless families move into safe, affordable housing.
- We organize monthly collections and volunteer opportunities to support needs banks from churches in the Lansing Christian Services network.
- Layette items at Epiphany for the infant needs bank at Pilgrim UCC
- Teddy Bears for South Church of the Nazarene’s program to provide comfort items for children who are moving to foster care
- Books for Babies
- Hats, mittens and scarves for Head Start
- Back-to-school clothing for kids and teens for the LOVE Clothing Center at Judson Memorial Baptist Church
- At Thanksgiving, All Saints parishioners collect and deliver complete dinners to needy families.
- Each spring, we collect laundry baskets full of household cleaning items to be given to Haven House residents as they leave to establish their own homes.
- All Saints collects food for the hungry every week for the Food Bank at Haven House.
- Twice a year we furnish an apartment for a young adult leaving foster care.
- All Saints participates annually in CROP Walk, a project of the Church World Services that raises money for the hungry locally, nationally, and internationally.
- All Saints regularly prepares Saturday lunches for Advent House and dinners for Loaves and Fishes Shelter.
- We work with the Diocese of Michigan to support other ministries to the needy of the Diocese and to the needs of the world through annual contributions to Episcopal Relief and Development.
- We are a Covenant Church with Bread for the World, making a commitment of time and money to fight global hunger.
- We also assist the community by providing generous building use for a variety of community groups, 12-step programs, and adult and child education groups.
Ministries of Mercy
- All Saints is a member congregation of ACTION of Greater Lansing, an interfaith organization that organizes congregations to work to effect change in the region by presenting positive, workable solutions to community problems to government officials.
- Lansing Area Episcopal Project (LAEP) brings together all the Episcopal churches in the greater Lansing area to combine our efforts to lobby local officials on issues of justice and to provide support to local service organizations. Last year, LAEP organized apartment showers for young adults moving out of foster care. It also hosted a showing of the film "For the Bible Tells Me So."
- Each year, along with thousands of other houses of worship throughout the nation, All Saints celebrates the national observance of children's Sabbaths. This annual event, under the leadership of the Children's Defense Fund, seeks to unite people of all faiths to pray for and act on behalf of children in need.
