From Father Iain, All Saints Chiang Mai
Worship back in the church again this Sunday!
Dear Friends,
It has been another exhausting week, and we are all still in flood-recovery mode. I am very conscious of the many people in our community who have lost so much, and very grateful to those who have given to allow us to resume our ministry at All Saints!
Are you angry with your partner, parent, children, school, employer, friends, or church? This may well be a natural reaction to stress and trauma, now that the initial survival period is over. Bare this is mind, and cut each other a little slack at this time!!! Forgiveness is a very necessary Christian virtue!
One thing that helped me to arise from the slough of despond was the singing of our wonderful All Saints Choristers! They led our worship last Sunday and they sang like never before!!! We are truly blessed to have them! You can listen to their reprise of The Lord Bless You and Keep You below!
We have a busy month ahead, with All Saints Day, Remembrance Sunday, Ordination Sunday, and Transgender Day of Remembrance Sunday. And then we will be into Advent! But God is good, and we can give thanks and pray for our world together!
The readings for this Sunday will be from Revelation 7:9-17, 1 John 3:1-3, and Matthew 5:1-12, and we will be singing the hymns For All the Saints; For all the Saints who’ve Shown your Love; The saints of God! their conflict past; Sing with all the saints in glory; and O when the saints go marching in!
Use this link to join on Zoom on Sunday at 10:30 a.m.
Meeting ID: 548 801 501
Video of Last Sunday’s Service!
Video of last Sunday’s service back at All Saints is available on the All Saints YouTube channel!
Choir Intensive
The Choir with their Choir Intensive Certificates!
This took place at the Youth Charity Foundation from Wednesday to Friday last week. Keith Dale is a choir director from the UK who has travelled to Thailand to lead the three-day workshop. Many thanks to Keith, Kaew, Peter, Paddy, and Claudine, for making this possible.
Watch the children singing The Lord Bless You and Keep You after the service on Sunday.
Assembling the Chairs
The new chairs arrived yesterday – I assembled one of them! We have forty-nine more to put together!!! If you are free tomorrow (Friday) at 11 am, please come to the church and lend a hand – and bring a Philips screwdriver if you have one!
Events Coming Up
Sunday 3rd November: All Saints Day
Sunday 10th November: Remembrance Sunday
Sunday 17th November: Christa’s and Gene’s Ordination Service
Sunday 24th November: Transgender Day of Remembrance
Sunday 1st December: Advent Sunday
Saturday 14th December: Festival of Christmas Carols
Tuesday 24th December: Midnight Mass
Wednesday 25th December: Christmas Morning Eucharist
Remembrance Day and Remembrance Sunday
Sunday 10th November is Remembrance Sunday. We will gather at All Saints at 10:30 a.m. to remember victims of war and armed conflict around the world. The service will include two minutes silence at 11 a.m. and hymns will include The Day Thou Gavest Lord is Ended, and Abide with Me. We will remember victims of war and together declare “never again!”
Monday 11th should have been the Remembrance Day Observance at the Foreign Cemetery, but due to the extensive flood damage this has had to be cancelled this year.
Gene’s and Christa’s Ordination Service
On Sunday 17th November we will have the joy of joining in the service of ordination to the priesthood of our deacons Christa Crawford and Gene Bourquin. This will take place as part of our regular Sunday service.
The service will be followed by a potluck at the vicarage!
Transgender Day of Remembrance
On Sunday 24th November, we will mark the Transgender Day of Remembrance in our morning worship at All Saints! This is a very moving service when we remember those who in the last year have been killed for being trans.
All Saints Flood Appeal
The Church as we found it on the morning of Monday 9th October!
You can still donate if you haven’t already done so.
If you have a Thai bank account you can transfer THB 760 (or an amount of your choosing) by scanning the QR code.
The payment is into the old church account which is in my name, but I do not have access to this account. The account can only be accessed with the authorization of two Church Council members and is fully secure.
Alternatively you can transfer money directly to the All Saints Foundation Bank Account as follows:
Bank: Kasikorn Bank
Account Name: All Saints Foundation
Account Number: 170-3-79007-7
SWIFT code: KASITHBK
Or if you are in the UK you can send your donation via the All Saints Chiang Mai Mission account:
Bank: The Coop Bank
Name: All Saints Chiang Mai Mission
Sort Code: 089299
Account Number: 65877142
You can also donate using your debit/credit card via my UK PayPal Account! (But this incurs higher charges!)
Donate by PayPal to the IainBaxterMinistry UK account.
Donate via PayPal here!
All Saints Book Group
Will not be meeting this week.
Chili Night Continues!
Chili Night next Tuesday
Every Tuesday everyone in Chiang Mai is invited to Chili Night in the Vicarage. Chili con Carne, rice, chips, ice-cream, and drinks are provided. Just come along! (But let me know in advance if you can!) All are welcome. Food is served at 6 p.m.
Please make a donation on THB 100 per person!
Weekly Offering to All Saints
You can still donate in person or online – and now you can us our QR code!. Thank you for your support and love for All Saints and all we are trying to do together. God has shown that he is mighty and we are in his hands!
God bless you,
Father Iain
All Saints' Chiang Mai 