All Places Together

Do you ever feel like the season for something in your life has passed? Do you ever feel like is too late for the thing you have been hoping for or working towards to happen? Sarah, from the book of Genesis, knows that feeling well. Today Pastor Colleen explores Sarah's story and hears God's voice say to Sarah, to her, and to you: there's still time.

The reading comes from Wilda C. Gafney's A Women's Lectionary for the Whole Year - A Multi-Gospel Single-Year Lectionary. Published 2021 by Church Publishing Incorporated.

All Places Together (APT) is a non-geographic community, based in Virginia. APT seeks to gather individuals who are searching for God in the wilderness of life, individuals who deeply want to connect to something beyond themselves, and individuals who believe the love of Jesus is embodied in all of God’s diverse creation.

Thank you to our Mission Partners: Virginia Synod (www.vasynod.org) and Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (www.elca.org).

To give to All Places Together, visit our website: http://www.allplacestogether.org/ Scroll to the bottom of the page and click the button "Give to All Places Together". This will take you to the APT giving page. Enter your contribution amount to the basket and follow the instructions to check out!

Today All Places Togethers begins a series of reading the story of a biblical character and seeing how God was with them.  Pastor Colleen starts with Hagar, the person who named God. Through the story of Hagar, we catch a glimpse of our own story and remember how God sees us in our most difficult times.

The reading comes from Wilda C. Gafney's A Women's Lectionary for the Whole Year - A Multi-Gospel Single-Year Lectionary. Published 2021 by Church Publishing Incorporated.

All Places Together (APT) is a non-geographic community, based in Virginia. APT seeks to gather individuals who are searching for God in the wilderness of life, individuals who deeply want to connect to something beyond themselves, and individuals who believe the love of Jesus is embodied in all of God’s diverse creation.

Thank you to our Mission Partners: Virginia Synod (www.vasynod.org) and Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (www.elca.org).

To give to All Places Together, visit our website: http://www.allplacestogether.org/ Scroll to the bottom of the page and click the button "Give to All Places Together". This will take you to the APT giving page. Enter your contribution amount to the basket and follow the instructions to check out!

Good days. Bad days. Mad days. Sad days. We all have them. And so did Jesus. In this week's episode, Pastor Colleen celebrates all the ways that God is with us throughout the ups and downs of life including all the wonders of 21st century mental health care. 

Thank you to our Mission Partners: Virginia Synod (www.vasynod.org) and Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (www.elca.org).

To give to All Places Together, visit our website: http://www.allplacestogether.org/ Scroll to the bottom of the page and click the button "Give to All Places Together". This will take you to the APT giving page. Enter your contribution amount to the basket and follow the instructions to check out!

After a summer of exploring many of the places where God is with us, this week Pastor Colleen digs into the second part of the foundation of All Places Together. God loves you whoever you are. She shares about how APT became a Reconciling in Christ community and how sharing this love with you each week is changing her. 

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All Places Together (APT) is a non-geographic community, based in Virginia. APT seeks to gather individuals who are searching for God in the wilderness of life, individuals who deeply want to connect to something beyond themselves, and individuals who believe the love of Jesus is embodied in all of God’s diverse creation.

Thank you to our Mission Partners: Virginia Synod (www.vasynod.org) and Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (www.elca.org).

To give to All Places Together, visit our website: http://www.allplacestogether.org/ Scroll to the bottom of the page and click the button "Give to All Places Together". This will take you to the APT giving page. Enter your contribution amount to the basket and follow the instructions to check out!

Dr. Jessica Staley makes a house call in this week's episode. Not to check on her four-legged patient, Luna, but to share with All Places Together some of the ways that she has witnessed God's love and grace in and through animals. You won't want to miss this celebration of the joy, comfort, and companionship that pets offer us. This is a must-listen for all pet lovers! 

Fill out this form to sign-up your pet for All Places Together Pet Blessing on Tuesday, October 5 at 8pm on Facebook Live. https://bit.ly/aptpetbless21

All Places Together (APT) is a non-geographic community, based in Virginia. APT seeks to gather individuals who are searching for God in the wilderness of life, individuals who deeply want to connect to something beyond themselves, and individuals who believe the love of Jesus is embodied in all of God’s diverse creation.

Thank you to our Mission Partners: Virginia Synod (www.vasynod.org) and Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (www.elca.org).

To give to All Places Together, visit our website: http://www.allplacestogether.org/ Scroll to the bottom of the page and click the button "Give to All Places Together". This will take you to the APT giving page. Enter your contribution amount to the basket and follow the instructions to check out!

In this week's episode, Thomas Fulmer takes us into the mountains as he shares his experience of hiking the Appalachian Trail. His stories weave together themes of creation care, spirituality, and the endurance it takes to hike thousands of miles. By the end, you'll be ready to lace up your boots and hit the trail to see God in the mountains near you.

Fill out this form to sign-up your pet for All Places Together Pet Blessing on Tuesday, October 5 at 8pm on Facebook Live. https://bit.ly/aptpetbless21

All Places Together (APT) is a non-geographic community, based in Virginia. APT seeks to gather individuals who are searching for God in the wilderness of life, individuals who deeply want to connect to something beyond themselves, and individuals who believe the love of Jesus is embodied in all of God’s diverse creation.

Thank you to our Mission Partners: Virginia Synod (www.vasynod.org) and Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (www.elca.org).

To give to All Places Together, visit our website: http://www.allplacestogether.org/ Scroll to the bottom of the page and click the button "Give to All Places Together". This will take you to the APT giving page. Enter your contribution amount to the basket and follow the instructions to check out!

For thousands of years humanity has looked to the sky and natural weather patterns to find divine signs and messages from God. Dr. Laura Hartman, Professor in Environmental Studies at Roanoke College and a leader with Virginia Interfaith Power and Light, gathers with All Places Together to share her biblical and ecological wisdom to tell us how, even today, God can be speaking to us through the natural world--and that the words may well be a dire warning. She reminds us that though the skies may look bleak, resurrection comes after death. 

Sign-up your pet for All Places Together Pet Blessing on Tuesday, October 5 at 8pm on Facebook Live! First 50 pets to sign up will get a free APT themed animal tag for your furry friends collar or clothes! Just follow this link and fill out the form: https://bit.ly/aptpetbless21

Raise is a chapter of Virginia Interfaith Power and Light (https://vaipl.org) and our mission is to create opportunities for local congregations to live out their callings to care for creation and enact environmental justice. You can learn more about RAISE  on their Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/RoanokeAISE 

All Places Together (APT) is a non-geographic community, based in Virginia. APT seeks to gather individuals who are searching for God in the wilderness of life, individuals who deeply want to connect to something beyond themselves, and individuals who believe the love of Jesus is embodied in all of God’s diverse creation.

Thank you to our Mission Partners: Virginia Synod (www.vasynod.org) and Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (www.elca.org).

To give to All Places Together, visit our website: http://www.allplacestogether.org/ Scroll to the bottom of the page and click the button "Give to All Places Together". This will take you to the APT giving page. Enter your contribution amount to the basket and follow the instructions to check out!

In this second week of the Season of Creation, our focus turns to humanity, specifically how Christian humans are called to put serve creation. Pastor Meredith Harber joins us from Alaska and tells us stories about whales and how their well-being is so interconnected to human behavior. It's Free Willy in 2021 with whales and with all creatures. 

Also, you can join APT on this Tuesday night (Sept 14) at 8pm EST on Facebook Live for our first Season of Creation gathering. We’ll dig deeper into our relationship with Planet Earth, share our prayers, and grow in community together. APT will be live on Facebook each Tuesday in September 2021 at 8pm. Tuesday, Oct 5 will be our Animal Blessing! More details to come about how your pet can receive a special blessing and animal tag to adorn collar, aquarium, or cage.

Today's prayer comes from the worship resources available at www.seasonofcreation.com. The copyright for the season of Creation materials produced in Australia is held jointly by Norman Habel and the Justice and International Mission unit within the Commission for Mission of the Uniting Church in Australia, Synod of Victoria and Tasmania. This unit was the initial sponsoring body for these materials.

All Places Together (APT) is a non-geographic community, based in Virginia. APT seeks to gather individuals who are searching for God in the wilderness of life, individuals who deeply want to connect to something beyond themselves, and individuals who believe the love of Jesus is embodied in all of God’s diverse creation.

Thank you to our Mission Partners: Virginia Synod (www.vasynod.org) and Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (www.elca.org).

To give to All Places Together, visit our website: http://www.allplacestogether.org/ Scroll to the bottom of the page and click the button "Give to All Places Together". This will take you to the APT giving page. Enter your contribution amount to the basket and follow the instructions to check out!

All Places Together begins our celebration of the Season of Creation with the person who introduced Pastor Colleen to it, Pastor Lyle McKee. Lyle weaves together his extensive biblical and ecological knowledge to explore how God is present throughout Planet Earth and how people ought to interact with creation. 

Also, you can join APT on this Tuesday night (Sept 7) at 8pm EST on Facebook Live for our first Season of Creation gathering. We’ll dig deeper into our relationship with Planet Earth, share our prayers, and grow in community together. APT will be live on Facebook each Tuesday in September 2021 at 8pm. Tuesday, Oct 5 will be our Animal Blessing! More details to come about how your pet can receive a special blessing and animal tag to adorn collar, aquarium, or cage.

Today's prayer comes from the worship resources available at www.seasonofcreation.com. The copyright for the season of Creation materials produced in Australia is held jointly by Norman Habel and the Justice and International Mission unit within the Commission for Mission of the Uniting Church in Australia, Synod of Victoria and Tasmania. This unit was the initial sponsoring body for these materials.

All Places Together (APT) is a non-geographic community, based in Virginia. APT seeks to gather individuals who are searching for God in the wilderness of life, individuals who deeply want to connect to something beyond themselves, and individuals who believe the love of Jesus is embodied in all of God’s diverse creation.

Thank you to our Mission Partners: Virginia Synod (www.vasynod.org) and Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (www.elca.org).

To give to All Places Together, visit our website: http://www.allplacestogether.org/ Scroll to the bottom of the page and click the button "Give to All Places Together". This will take you to the APT giving page. Enter your contribution amount to the basket and follow the instructions to check out!

It’s time to hit the road with All Places Together. Pastor Colleen mixes together three modern day stories about spiritual encounters on the interstate with one of the first roadtrips, the Israelite Exodus from Egypt. Grab your favorite road snack and get ready to experience God in the playlists, people, and plateaus along the way. 

All Places Together (APT) is a non-geographic community, based in Virginia. APT seeks to gather individuals who are searching for God in the wilderness of life, individuals who deeply want to connect to something beyond themselves, and individuals who believe the love of Jesus is embodied in all of God’s diverse creation.

Thank you to our Mission Partners: Virginia Synod (www.vasynod.org) and Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (www.elca.org).

To give to All Places Together, visit our website: http://www.allplacestogether.org/ Scroll to the bottom of the page and click the button "Give to All Places Together". This will take you to the APT giving page. Enter your contribution amount to the basket and follow the instructions to check out!