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From Rev Iain Baxter, All Saints Chiang Mai

Dear Friends,

Our New Year’s Day was surprisingly well attended with over thirty people present, let’s hope this pattern continues in 2017.  This week we celebrate the Feast of the Epiphany when we remember the Wise Men visiting Jesus.  It also marks Twelfth Night, and so we will be taking out Christmas decorations down for another year!  Despite all the trepidations we share as we enter 2017, I am optimistic that this will be a good year at All Saints. God is with us, and we can trust that God will lead us forward according to God’s will.  Be excited – I am!

Our readings for Epiphany will be Isaiah 60:1-6, Ephesians 3:1-12, and Matthew 2:1-12, and we will be singing the carols We Three Kings of Orient Are, The First Nowell, As With Gladness Men of Old, and Hark! The Herald Angels Sing!  The readings can be found via this link!

If you don’t know the way to All Saints, directions can be found on the Where and When page.  Most people get to hear about us via the internet or by word of mouth, so please feel free to pass on this email to others.

All are welcome to join us as we continue to celebrate the Christ of Christmas!  We hope to see you soon and that you will enjoy worshiping with us,

God bless,

Iain

From Rev Iain Baxter, All Saints Chiang Mai

Midnight Mass 2016

Dear Friends,

A large group gathered to celebrate Christmas at our Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve and fifty-two people joined us on Christmas Day for our Family Eucharist.  This was followed by our Christmas lunch where a good time was had by all!
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Sharing a wonderful Christmas Lunch!

May I take this opportunity to thank all those who have helped to make All Saints a great place to worship in 2016, and to wish everyone a wonderful 2017!  New Years are times for new beginnings.  Who knows what the year ahead will bring?  But whatever does happen we can know we are in the arms of a loving God.  That is our Good News  – for Christmas and for all the year round!

Our readings for this Sunday, 1st January 2017, will be Ecclesiastes 3:1-13, Hebrews 2:10-18, and Luke 2:15-21, and we will be singing the carols O Come All Ye Faithful, In the Bleak Midwinter, Silent Night, See Amid the Winter’s Snow, and Joy to the World!  The readings can be found via this link!

If you don’t know the way to All Saints, directions can be found on the Where and When page.  Most people get to hear about us via the internet or by word of mouth, so please feel free to pass on this email to others.

All are welcome to join us as we continue to celebrate the Christ of Christmas!  We hope to see you soon and that you will enjoy worshiping with us,

God bless,

Iain

From Rev Iain Baxter, All Saints Chiang Mai

Join us for Midnight Mass and on Christmas Day!

Dear Friends,

Christmas is finally upon us.  After all the anticipation and preparation we can now celebrate the birth of Christ together and all that means in our lives.

For many people, myself and Andy included, all the arrangements can make this a stressful time as we prepare to welcome family and friends and hope to have the “best Christmas ever!”  Let us ask God to save us from striving and give us the special peace as we embrace the true meaning of the season:  God’s love for all, which we can reflect in our love for one another.

Christmas Services at All Saints:

Saturday 24th December – Christmas Eve
11:30 p.m. Midnight Mass

Sunday 25th December – Christmas Day
11 a.m. Christmas Family Eucharist

Sunday 1st January – New Year’s Day
11 a.m. New Year Eucharist

Our readings for Christmas Eve will be Isaiah 9:2-7 and Luke 2:1-20, and we will be singing the carols O Come All Ye Faithful, O Holy Night, It Came Upon a Midnight Clear, Silent Night, and Hark The Herald Angels Sing.

Then on Christmas Day, our readings will be Isaiah 52:7-10 and Luke 2:1-20, and we will be singing the carols O Come All Ye Faithful, Away in a Manger, Good Christian Friends Rejoice, While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks, and Hark The Herald Angels Sing!

The readings can be found via this link!

If you don’t know the way to All Saints, directions can be found on the Where and When page.  Most people get to hear about us via the internet or by word of mouth, so please feel free to pass on this email to others.

All are welcome to join us as we celebrate the Christ of Christmas!  We hope to see you soon and that you will enjoy worshiping with us, Merry Christmas to one and all,

God bless,

Iain

From Rev Iain Baxter, All Saints Chiang Mai

A wonderful Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols

Dear Friends,

Last Friday and Saturday nights we had our wonderful Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols – a real beginning to Christmas!  Thanks to the Lannacapella Choir and to all those who did readings or helped behind the scenes.

The Lannacapella Choir

Christmas will soon be upon us, those who have signed up for the Christmas lunch should standby to hear what they have to bring!  Of course, our midnight mass and Christmas morning service will be the centre of our worship, and as we look forward to singing the familiar carols we can rejoice in their message: peace on earth and good will, and the knowledge that God is with us.

Christmas Services at All Saints:

Saturday 24th December – Christmas Eve
11:30 p.m. Midnight Mass

Sunday 25th December – Christmas Day
11 a.m. Christmas Family Eucharist

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Our readings for this Sunday, the fourth Sunday of Advent, will be Isaiah 7:10-16, Romans 1:1-7, and Matthew 1:18-25, and we will be singing the carols O Come, All Ye Faithful, Once in Royal David’s City, Silent Night, and See Amid the Winter’s Snow.  The readings can be found via this link!

Our new church directory is still available – thanks to Chris for pushing this!  Reply to this email to get a copy!

The Eight Reindeer Monologues

All Saints member, Connie Mudore, plays Dancer, one of Santa’s reindeer in The Eight Reindeer Monologues.  This dark adult comedy will be performed at the AUA Auditorium (old city) 12/21 through 12/24. All performances are at 7 pm. In this play, Santa is not a very nice man and all of his reindeer are in prison as a result of his actions.  Connie has tickets available for sale today after the service. Ticket price is 300 THB. If you would like more information, contact Connie at constance.faye8@gmail.com

If you don’t know the way to All Saints, directions can be found on the Where and When page.

Most people get to hear about us via the internet or by word of mouth, so please feel free to pass on this email to others.

All are welcome to join us as we celebrate the Christ of Christmas!  We hope to see you soon and that you will enjoy worshiping with us,

God bless,

Iain

A great night at All Saints, Chiang Mai. The American Consul General, Jennifer Harhigh, reads the sixth lesson at our Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols.

Thanks to the Lannacapella Choir for leading our worship.

From Rev Iain Baxter, All Saints Chiang Mai

All is ready for our Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols

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Dear Friends,

Our Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols is finally here. There are still a few tickets available, especially for Friday night, so feel free to come along and bring your friends.

Christmas will soon be upon us, and almost 20 people have signed up for Christmas lunch, so that should be a great event.  Of course, our midnight mass and Christmas morning service will be the centre of our worship, and as we look forward to singing the familiar carols we can rejoice in their message: peace on earth and good will, and the knowledge that God is with us.

Christmas Services at All Saints:

Saturday 24th December – Christmas Eve
11:30 pm Midnight Mass

Sunday 25th December – Christmas Day
11 am Christmas Family Eucharist

Followed by Christmas Lunch
(You need to sign-up for the lunch)

Our readings for the third Sunday of Advent will be Isaiah 35:1-10, James 5:7-10, and Luke 1:46-55, and we will be singing the hymns Of the Father’s Love Begotten, Song of Mary, and Tell out my Soul!   The readings can be found via this link!

New Directory

Our new church directory is still available – thanks to Chris for pushing this!  Reply to this email to get a copy!

If you don’t know the way to All Saints, directions can be found on the Where and When page.  Most people get to hear about us via the internet or by word of mouth, so please feel free to pass on this email to others.

All are welcome to join us as we celebrate the Christ of Christmas!  We hope to see you soon and that you will enjoy worshiping with us,

God bless,

Iain

From Rev Iain Baxter, All Saints Chiang Mai

Jesus is Coming Soon!

Christmas Services at All Saints:

Friday 9th and Saturday 10th December
7 pm Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols
(A ticket is needed for this event)

Saturday 24th December – Christmas Eve
11:30 pm Midnight Mass

Sunday 25th December – Christmas Day
11 am Christmas Family Eucharist

Followed by Christmas Lunch
(You need to sign-up for the lunch)

Dear Friends,

Last Sunday we will have a great potluck as we decorated the church for Advent and Christmas. Thanks to all who came to this special event – there were nearly forty of us!

Worshipping together!

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Sharing our Potluck!

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Advent is a time of hope – we look forward to Christmas when we remember Jesus coming as a baby, but we also look forward to Jesus’ second coming when he will come to make all things well.  All are welcome to join us for our Advent and Christmas events, but you will need a ticket for the Festivals of Nine Lessons and Carols, and to sign-up if you want to share Christmas lunch in the church.

Our readings for Advent Sunday will be Isaiah 11:1-10, Romans 15:4-13, and Matthew 3:1-12, and we will be singing the hymns O Come O Come Emmanuel, Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silent, and Lo He Comes with Clouds Descending!

The readings can be found via this link!

New Directory

Our church directory is finally available – thanks to Chris for pushing this!  Send an email to info@AllSaintsChiangMai.com to get a copy!

If you don’t know the way to All Saints, directions can be found on the Where and When page.

Most people get to hear about us via the internet or by word of mouth, so please feel free to pass on this email to others.

All are welcome to join us as we celebrate the Christ of Christmas!  We hope to see you soon and that you will enjoy worshiping with us,

God bless,

Iain

From Rev Iain Baxter, All Saints Chiang Mai

Advent Sunday!
Pot-luck Lunch this Week!

Christmas Services at All Saints:

Friday 9th and Saturday 10th December
7 pm Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols
(A ticket is needed for this event)

Saturday 24th December – Christmas Eve
11:30 pm Midnight Mass

Sunday 25th December – Christmas Day
11 am Christmas Family Eucharist

Followed by Christmas Lunch
(You need to sign-up for the lunch)

Dear Friends,

This Sunday we will have another potluck as we decorate the church for Advent and Christmas.  This has become a yearly event enjoyed by all – especially the children and childlike among us!  It is also my 50th birthday so come and celebrate!

Advent is a time of hope, a time of looking forward, a time to embrace the promise that, in the end, all will be well.  We need hope after the recent election shocks that many of us have experienced!  That hope is found in Jesus who still promises a better world where swords are beaten into ploughshares and spears into pruning hooks!

At All Saints we seek to bring hope and reach out to the marginalised and those in need in our community, to stand with sexual and racial minorities who suffer discrimination and abuse.  As part of this calling, more than forty people attended our worship last Sunday as we marked The Transgender Day of Remembrance. This our mission: to be here, and to bring God, to all.

Transgender Day of Remembrance at All Saints

Meanwhile, this Friday night we will have the second session of Theology on Tap.  We will again meet at the Gekko Garden at 7 p.m., and this month our topic is Heaven and Hell!

All are welcome to join us for our Advent and Christmas events, but you will need a ticket for the Festivals of Nine Lessons and Carols, and to sign-up if you want to share Christmas lunch in the church.

Our readings for Advent Sunday will be Isaiah 2:1-5, Romans 13:11-14, and Matthew 24:36-44, and we will be singing the hymns O Come O Come Emmanuel, Born in the Night, Come Ye Thankful People Come, and Come Thou Long Expected Jesus!    

Our sermon will be entitled The Audacity of Hope!

The readings can be found via this link!

If you don’t know the way to All Saints, directions can be found on the Where and When page.  Most people get to hear about us via the internet or by word of mouth, so please feel free to pass on this email to others.

All are welcome to join us as we celebrate the Christ of Christmas!  We hope to see you soon and that you will enjoy worshiping with us,

God bless,

Iain

From Rev Iain Baxter, All Saints Chiang Mai

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Dear Friends,

November is a month of remembrance in the Christian calendar.  It begins with All Saints’ and All Souls’ Days, and they are followed by Remembrance Sunday, when we remember the dead from two world wars, and others who have lost their lives in conflict in the last hundred years.

This year the Transgender Day of Remembrance, 20th November, also falls on a Sunday so we have chosen to mark it in this week’s service.

Of course, there are many groups whose lives we should remember, the Black Lives Matter movement clearly illustrates this, and we should also set aside time to remember those who have died as a result of domestic abuse, endemic diseases such as malaria, or in other terrible situations.  But November 20th is the Transgender Day of Remembrance, so we will take this time to remember those who have been killed for no reason other than their courage to stand up and be the people that God made them to be.

Connie Mudore will be preaching, and our hymns and prayers will reflect the message of the day.  Our readings will be Jeremiah 23:1-6, Colossians 1:11-20, and Luke 1:68-79, and we will be singing All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name, Stand up stand up for Jesus, One Bread One Body, and Hear I am Lord!  The readings can be found via this link!

Meanwhile, this Friday and Saturday you can see our own Nate Tipton appearing in The Best Christmas Pageant Ever at Chiang Mai International School.  The performances begin at 5 p.m.  Tickets are THB 200.

This year, American Thanksgiving falls on 24th November.  To celebrate the day a group of us will be going to Bake and Bite.  The cost is THB 700 per person, which is expensive, but it is a great buffet with all the traditional dishes. You can sign-up on Sunday. We will begin eating at 7 p.m.

The next meeting of Theology on Tap will be on Friday, 25th November, at Gekko Garden, when we will discuss Heaven and Hell!  The adventure begins at 7 p.m.

Next Sunday, November 27th, is Advent Sunday!  We will have another potluck as we decorate the church for Advent and Christmas.  This has become a yearly event enjoyed by all – especially the children and childlike among us!  It is also my 50th birthday!

Christmas is coming!

Advanced notice of our Christmas activities:

This year the Prince Royal’s College chapel is not available due to extensive renovations, so instead we shall hold our Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols in our own church building.  This will be on both Friday 9th AND Saturday 10th December beginning at 7 p.m.   We will have two services to try to accommodate as many as we can!  There will be a limited number of tickets on sale for each night.

Christmas Day falls on a Sunday this year, so we will have our usual 11 a.m. service, and also a Midnight Mass beginning at 11:30 p.m. on Christmas Eve.

If you don’t know the way to All Saints, directions can be found on the Where and When page.

Most people get to hear about us via the internet or by word of mouth, so please feel free to pass on this email to others.

All are welcome to join us as we share the presence of the risen Jesus in our lives!  We hope to see you soon and that you will enjoy worshiping with us,

God bless,

Iain

From Rev Iain Baxter, All Saints Chiang Mai

Dear Friends,

This is an extra email to remind you of a few up-coming events.

Tomorrow – Loi Kratong
Tuesday 15th November 6:30 p.m.

Andy launching his Kratong on Sunday night

We will be meeting at church at 6:30 p.m. to walk down to enjoy the Loi Kratong celebrations.  You won’t get your car any nearer – see the map below showing possibly closed roads!

The Chiang Mai traffic police have announced no parking and possible changes on some roads to one way traffic reflecting the traffic condition for the parade on Chiang Mai Yee Peng (Loy Kratong) festival on Tuesday, November 15 from 6.00 PM-12.00 AM on the roads marked with red;

(Thanks to Chiang Mai International School for the map!)

Friday 18th & Saturday 19th November
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever! 5 p.m.

Our own Nate Tipton is among the cast in this fun play at Chiang Mai International School.

Tickets cost THB200.  Tickets can be bought on the door.

Thursday 24th November 7:00 p.m.
Thanksgiving Meal at Bake and Bite

A group of us will be going to Bake and Bite to share their excellent Thanksgiving Buffet.  If you would like to come please let me know as soon as possible.  The cost is THB700 per person.

Hope to see you soon,

Iain