In 2025, All Saints light our Prayers
The Georgetown Ecumenical Wholeness Service is once again holding an All Saints’ Observance in the columbarium at San Gabriel Presbyterian Church for all who would like to participate. Lanterns will surround us on November 2. This service just happens to fall on All Saints’ Sunday, a special time of the year when Christians worldwide celebrate the founders of our church and the “Great Cloud of Witnesses” who have gone before us.
The Wholeness Service began to honor departed loved ones on All Saints’ Day of 2020, during our COVID Zoom Prayers. Among the first names remembered that year was founder and longtime music director Dr. George Biggs. We continued the tradition every following year, and we are now in our sixth year of our annual celebration of the Saints.
This year, we plan to meet outdoors in the columbarium of partner San Gabriel Presbyterian Church, Georgetown. The names of our loved ones will glow around us as we sing Taizé prayers, meditate on “Listening to People of Hope,” observe candlelight intercessions, and receive anointing for our personal prayers. The evening will start at 6:30 pm and end around 7:45, like normal services, but on this one night, the names of all beloved Saints will light our way.
Thanks to generous donations from our community of worshipers, the Wholeness Service brings this observance to Central Texas free of charge. Over 100 lanterns will illuminate our worship on November 2, and you are invited to submit one of your own. Lanterns will be prepared in time for the service.
Do you have someone you’d like to remember? Let us know. Send us your request by October 30, and come to pray with us on November 2.
This just in (10/29/2025): Continue the service of the Saints by feeding the hungry this Sunday. Bring cash or a non-perishable food item to benefit Helping Hands of Georgetown. Read more here.
