All Saints Lutheran Church, San Diego

6355 Radcliffe Drive, San Diego, California 92122
Church: 858.453.3595 • allstsofc@sbcglobal.net
Preschool: 858.453.5340 • allstspre@sbcglobal.net

​The Holy Eucharist: 9 am Sundays, in person and on Zoom
The Wednesday Evening Service has been suspended
NOVEMBER 3
is All Saints’ Sunday
Our Feast of Title: we celebrate the Church in all times and all places
—and our All Saints Brunch returns this year--
Don’t forget to set your clocks back!
 
 
NOVEMBER 24
is Christ the King Sunday
The last Sunday of the Church Year
 
 
DECEMBER 1
is the First Sunday in Advent
The first Sunday of a new Church Year
 
 
From the Pastor . . .
 
Dear Christian friends,
 
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us. . . . (Hebrews 12:1 (RSV))
 
As we return to our All Saints celebration year by year, we remember not only those who have gone before us in this place, but the great cloud of witnesses of every time and every place. All are witnesses to us as we continue in our spiritual journey together, our pilgrimage toward the Holy, or, as the author of Hebrews calls it, the race that is set before us.
 
As November comes each year, it is as though that race crosses over the Church Year’s start/finish line once again. Do we view the start of a new year of grace with joyful anticipation or are we daunted by God’s call to run another lap of this race in our pilgrimage here below, weighed down by clinging sin yet called to faithful perseverance in keeping and living the faith once delivered to the saints?
 
Whatever our own thoughts and feelings may be, we are supported and encouraged by that throng of witnesses who have gone before us. When temptation beckons us to fall into sin, or adversity threatens to overcome us, we are assisted in our troubles by recollecting the struggles of the saints who have gone before us on this path through the world to God.
 
In the language of the Prayer of the Day for All Saints’ Day, God has “knit together” his people in one communion of saints, the Church extended throughout all time and space. Death does not break this communion. We remember the departed and give thanks for their lives. And they? It is as though those who have crossed the finish line are cheering us on, who are still running the race, encouraged by God’s promise that we shall share with them the victory wreath.
 
On the Sunday after All Saints’ Sunday, (after a warning about those who like to go about in long robes and have the best seats in Church) we prepare for another Advent by hearing Jesus speak of the great ending and beginning that will mark the close of the age and the consummation of God’s promises. We hear more of that apocalyptic address at the end of the month on the First Sunday of Advent. In between, on Christ the King Sunday, we bring the Church Year to a close this year reflecting on death and resurrection as they appear in the story of Jesus’ raising of Lazarus.
 
Like so many things in our lives, the change of the Church Year is an adumbration of the death and resurrection into which we enter in Holy Baptism and which is consummated when God makes all things new and wipes away every tear. We find the new life by letting go of the old one, and so it is with the Church’s year of grace.
 
Grace and peace,
 
Paul Bieber+, STS, Pastor
 
 
Adult Forum: The Bethel Confession 
​
Many people know of the justly famous Barmen Declaration of 1934, the theological statement of the Confessing Church as it faced the Nazi takeover of the German Lutheran and Reformed Churches. But before that, in August, 1933, Lutheran theologians Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Hermann Sasse penned the Bethel Confession: not as famous, but maybe even more theologically interesting. The Bethel Confession shows how the Lutheran confessions of the Reformation era can be used creatively as theological instruments to address new issues and questions when the church faces a time for confessing. This Fall’s Adult Forum is studying this Confession to see whether it might be helpful in the situation of the Church in our day. Please join us on non-Confirmation Class Sundays, after the Eucharist and refreshments, in the Pastor’s study. 

 
To view sermons from All Saints, visit
Unbroken Word | Broken Bread
 

​Invitation: In-person or by Zoom
​
You are invited to join the All Saints community in worship. California has lifted masking and social distancing requirements for vaccinated people. If you are vaccinated, you may come to church for worship without a mask and sit where you like. If you are not vaccinated or if you simply prefer it, you may wear a mask and/or mark your seating so that social distancing will be maintained.

The service continues to be available on Zoom. If you are gathering virtually for worship via Zoom, please go to https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7904299410 at 9 am on Sunday to join us online. You can also dial in on your phone at 1 (669) 900-9128; the Meeting ID is: 790 429 9410. We open the meeting at about a quarter to nine so that we can greet one another and check in before the worship service begins. The meeting host will admit you to the meeting from the waiting room. Send an email to allstsofc@sbcglobal.net if you would like to be added to the list of those who receive the order of worship and the readings via email.

Regarding offerings: You may bring your offering to church. Or you can mail a check to the church or slip one through the mail slot next to the church office door. Or you can send money via www.Zellepay.com (the church’s email address is allstsofc@sbcglobal.net) or www.Paypal.com. Thanks to all our generous givers!
Sermons from All Saints, Episodes of "What Is the Premise?" and more are available at Pastor Bieber's site, Unbroken Word | Broken Bread: evangelicalcatholicsandiego.wordpress.com/
Please visit our Liturgical Ministries page
for schedules of acolytes, deacons, lectors, offertory giftbearers, and coffee hour setup hosts

We Invite You to Join Us!

Sunday Eucharist – 9:00 am

We regard the Church's liturgy as the birthright of the baptized and invite Christians of all ages
to worship as they are able. At the end of the liturgy on the first Sunday of the month,
we encourage children to join the pastor for a children's sermon.

Sunday School follows the worship service – from Holy Cross Day (September 14) through the Day of Pentecost

Confirmation Classes – 10:45 am Sundays, alternating with the Adult Forum

Wednesday services have been suspended


All Saints is a congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and its Pacifica Synod.

We are also a member congregation of the Community Christian Service Agency.


Website most recently updated on Monday 26 September 2022.