The Feast of All Saints

Today, Garrett-Evangelical celebrated The Feast of All Saints in our morning chapel service. In song, Scripture, prayer, Word, and Holy Communion, we gave thanks for the saints who have gone before us and on whose shoulders we now stand. We remembered our personal saints, the saints of the early Church, and the unnamed saints of the faith whose impact is still felt today.

As we remember the saints in our lives today, may this be our prayer:

God of the ages,

   we praise you for all your servants,

   who have done justice, loved mercy,

   and walked humbly with you.

For apostles and martyrs and saints

   of every time and place,

   who in life and death

   have witnessed to your truth,

we praise you, O God.

For all your servants

   who have faithfully served you,

   witnessed bravely, and died in faith,

   who still are shining lights in the world,

we praise you, O God.

For those unnamed or

   no longer remembered,

   who earnestly sought you in darkness,

   who held fast their faith in trial,

   and served others,

we praise you, O God.

For those we have known and loved,

   who by their faithful obedience

   and steadfast hope,

   have shown the same mind

   that was in Christ Jesus,

we praise you, O God.

Keep us grateful for their witness,

   and, like them, eager to follow

   in the way of Christ.

Then at the last, bring us with them

   to share in the inheritance

   of the saints in light;

   through Jesus Christ

   the pioneer and perfecter of our faith,

   who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,

   one God, forever and ever.   Amen.

Below are the names from the Roll of Remembrance from the Garrett-Evangelical community. We honor these Garrett-Evangelical saints and give thanks for them:

John William Cummins

John English Hoadley

Donald Lloyd Ruhl

Gaynell Strader

Earl A. Almquist

Donald Charles Kraushaar

Robert A. Dennert

Ira A. Bush

Calvin Runnels

Dawn Elynne Gotoh

Charles S. Henry

Dale R. Christopher

Sally Lynn Chipman

Robert Bruce Haight

Eugene Donald Tate

David Henry Koss

Edwin Lee Bittenbender

James Harold Coomer

Delburn Delton Kurtz

Warren Glenn Spellman

James Burton Palmer, Sr.

Charles C. Klosterman

Elaine Marie Chesley

Leo H. Buechler

Patricia Ann Scrutchions

Jean Martin

Patricia Eileen Richardson

Ruth Ann Baumeister Davis

Willis James Elliott

Gilbert LeRoy Shilling

Donald B. Woodward

Dale E. Doverspike

Robert Alexander Mulligan

L. E. Tooley

Emerson  Howard Abts

Robert P. Phillips

Roger F. Christianson

Weldon Chambers

William Harold Loyd

James Herman Snedeker

Lorla M. Nothdurft

Alton Lowry Brown

Albert Myron Herrell

Glenn Ray Hansen

Elizabeth Custer

Roger W. Nielsen

Douglas Ewing Jackson

Harold S. Huff

Richard Eugene Gibbens

Eugene H. Slack

Stanley A. Bailey

Walter S. Green

Richard O. Truitt

John E. Kaemmer

Dorothy Jean Furnish

Edsel A. Ammons

Helen Shires

Patricia Ann Carper

Joseph Wardell Pilate

Chester Eugene Custer

Angus McKay Cameron

William Gerald Cooper

Donald  Voss

Phillip R. Snider

Pauline Esther Rupe

Julian Norris Hartt

Larry Don LaVelle

William T. Carter

Raymond B. Scott

Wayne L. Ireland

Arthur H. Blaisdell

Trina Lacey

Dana Harris

Jordan Delay

Mary Hisel

Pansy McNeese

Evelyn Baumstark

James Sikes

Renee Denise Barney

Jane Hoffman

Gerald Duke

Bernie and Rita Beyer

John and Margaret Matye

Calvin Brown

Grace Prince

Finoy Lukose

Robert Haight

Lloyd Peters

Richard Alan Rawlinson

Norma Zell Jarvis

Mary Elmer Williams Murphy

Laurie Jean Angus

Leo Jeffries

Nicholas McFarlane

Sherley Benson

Bob Foreman

Myron Dale

Llug Felton