One Thursday a month, All Soulsians meet up at a different beer garden to connect - for a drink, a bite, a chat, a game, etc. Beer gardens are ideal because they have plenty of family-friendly, outdoor space and are casual enough that anyone can drop by for a spell as they are able. This is an all-ages, intergenerational event—we would love to see everyone there!

March location: Cellarmaker, 940 Parker St, Berkeley

Join us in the courtyard for an evening of food and fellowship! This is an event for everyone, so please invite your neighbors and friends along. Our goal is to raise $5,000 to support the Welcome and Kinship Ministries.

The menu will include crispy fried fish, golden potatoes, fresh coleslaw, garden salad, warm bread, and a delicious dessert.

Our Mission: From Newcomers to Family

Hospitality is at the center of the Gospel, and at All Souls, we believe that no one should ever feel like a stranger. Our Welcome and Kinship Ministries exist to bridge the gap between "visiting" and "belonging":

• The Welcome Team: We diligently work to host newcomer gatherings and provide 1-on-1 connections to help new folks get "plugged in" and find their place in our community.

• The Kinship : We believe that deep, spiritual bonds are formed through shared life. We are committed to making our Annual Parish Retreat and our Big Sur Camping Trip financially accessible to all. The funds raised here will lower costs and provide scholarships for families and individuals who otherwise would not be able to attend.

Whether you come for the food or make a donation from afar, you are helping us ensure that cost is never a barrier to belonging.

How to Participate

• Suggested Donation: $15 per person (with a $50 maximum per family). All are welcome - donations not required to attend.

• Tickets & RSVP: Please purchase your ticket or click here to RSVP via Realm by March 24th so we can prepare a spot for you. (Tickets will also be available at the event!)

• Can’t make it? Please consider making a donation via Realm to help us reach our $5,000 goal.

Lend a Hand

Help us make the night a success! We are still looking for volunteers to help with the festivities. Please contact Isaac Webb (isaacbwebb@gmail.com) or Cathy Goshorn (ogoshca@yahoo.com) to volunteer.

We can’t wait to share this meal and the spirit of hospitality with you!

At this meal, we remember Jesus’ final commandment to his disciples:

“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another.” – John 13:34.

In this spirit, we will eat together for a Maundy Thursday Agape Meal––an ancient practice in the Christian church, recalling the meals Jesus shared with disciples during his ministry, and especially at the Last Supper before his crucifixion, and expressing the koinonia (community, sharing, fellowship) of the followers of Christ. The term agape comes from the Greek––a term for love in its broadest sense. The Agape Meal is another way of living out Jesus’ mandatum (Latin for “commandment,” as in Maundy Thursday) or commandment that we love one another with the same self-emptying love, mercy, and forgiveness with which he has loved and still loves us. 

As part of this service, we will pray, sing a few songs, have some conversation, and we'll eat a light meal together. Our intention is for this to be a kid-friendly service, which you can attend as a stand-alone service on Maundy Thursday, or as preparation for the 7:30 pm Eucharistic service with foot washing.

Maundy Thursday, also known as Holy Thursday, is the first service of the Triduum, the three Great Days, in which we travel with Jesus through the final days of his life. The term "Maundy" is believed to have been derived from the Latin word "mandatum," which translates to commandment. As a result, in following Jesus––as is recorded in the book of John—we have a time during this service when we wash each others’ feet.

At the end of this service, we strip the altar and process the reserved sacraments down to the Chapel on Cedar St, where we pray with the body and blood of Christ through the night, just as the disciples were instructed to do when Jesus went into the garden to pray.

*This service will be live-streamed on YouTube.

Join us for this contemplative drop-in service of poetry, prayer, music, silence, scripture, and story as we reflect on the final moments that made up Jesus’ human experience. Come for just a few minutes or stay for all three hours as we reflect on our own mortality, beauty, and life. The Stations of the Cross are posted on the pillars around the church and may be walked at any point during the service.

The Triduum—the Three Great Days—has for centuries upon centuries been a time for Christians to gather and retrace the last steps of Christ. From Maundy Thursday to Good Friday to Holy Saturday, we as a community at All Souls engage each year in profound and meaningful liturgies, many of which speak to children, but which are not always accessible to them either because of their timing or length.

Our Holy Week with Children service draws upon the rituals and symbols of these services—inviting children and adults into the story, the action, the reflection, and the wondering about this Mystery we are coming close to. Using the framework of Godly Play, this service offers a time to slow down and get ready as we encounter this holy story of the last time Jesus came to Jerusalem. We gather to listen and watch, to wash each other’s feet, to reflect through art and action as we wonder what it could all mean, and then close with prayers and an invitation to return—to come and experience the ending that was a new beginning—Easter.

Join us for the second day of the Three Great Days of Holy Week, for a simple and solemn Good Friday liturgy, as we remember and reflect on the significance of Jesus’ death.

*This service will be live-streamed on YouTube.

On this Sabbath day all creation rests. And holds its breath. The faithful women have returned home, the rest of the disciples remain in the Upper Room, and for many of the followers of the Christ, it appears that death has the final word. And yet we wait.

For this simple service we will contemplate Scripture, hold silence, pray and chant in the Chapel on Cedar Street.

All are welcome to join us for our Easter Vigil where we begin outdoors in the courtyard, around the fire (dress in warm clothes!) and finish the night in celebration of the risen Christ with the Eucharist and finally a reception following the service.

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Our Easter Vigil is a journey—a metaphorical one and a physical one, with stations along the way. We come in from the dark and cold, and rest a while around the campfire. We pass the baptismal font, carrying the light of Christ to the world, calling the saints to rejoice with us.

We return to the church, where our primitive fire has grown from a single spark to radiate light all around us. And finally, having received the risen Christ in the sacramental elements of bread and wine—our food for the journey—we carry that same light within us as we return to the world, living as Easter people. All are welcome.

Note: This service will include incense and will be livestreamed on YouTube.

The Rev. Deborah Lee and other staff members of the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity (https://www.im4humanintegrity.org/) will be with us on April 12th and 19th to share their expertise and experience. IM4HI is a group that the Justice and Peace committee has supported for many years. Their core beliefs are: Welcome the stranger. Treat the stranger as your own. Compassion knows no borders. Love has no walls. They work at the intersection of spirituality and social movements. On April 26th, we will celebrate the work that All Soulsians have done around immigration and look at the current opportunities for action.

Class meets in the Parish Hall at 9:15 am on the following Sundays in April: 4/12, 4/19 & 4/26.

Annie Hayes will lead an exploration of this great practice. Using our imaginations to dig deeper into scripture allows God to communicate with us in a personal, evocative way. Each week, we’ll dive into a different Gospel story and spend an extended amount of time prayerfully immersing ourselves in the scene. The last 15-20 minutes of each class will offer time for individual and group reflection on the prayer experience we just had. This three-session class will meet in the Common Room at 9:15 am on the following Sundays: 4/12, 4/19 & 4/26.

Every second Sunday of the month we host a jambalaya meal for anyone who is hungry. Please come by and pick up a meal to go, or sit and eat in the courtyard. For more information or if you would like to volunteer to help with this meal, contact Jennifer A (akiyama.jennifer@gmail.com)

The Rev. Deborah Lee and other staff members of the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity (https://www.im4humanintegrity.org/) will be with us on April 12th and 19th to share their expertise and experience. IM4HI is a group that the Justice and Peace committee has supported for many years. Their core beliefs are: Welcome the stranger. Treat the stranger as your own. Compassion knows no borders. Love has no walls. They work at the intersection of spirituality and social movements. On April 26th, we will celebrate the work that All Soulsians have done around immigration and look at the current opportunities for action.

Class meets in the Parish Hall at 9:15 am on the following Sundays in April: 4/12, 4/19 & 4/26.

Annie Hayes will lead an exploration of this great practice. Using our imaginations to dig deeper into scripture allows God to communicate with us in a personal, evocative way. Each week, we’ll dive into a different Gospel story and spend an extended amount of time prayerfully immersing ourselves in the scene. The last 15-20 minutes of each class will offer time for individual and group reflection on the prayer experience we just had. This three-session class will meet in the Common Room at 9:15 am on the following Sundays: 4/12, 4/19 & 4/26.

The Rev. Deborah Lee and other staff members of the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity (https://www.im4humanintegrity.org/) will be with us on April 12th and 19th to share their expertise and experience. IM4HI is a group that the Justice and Peace committee has supported for many years. Their core beliefs are: Welcome the stranger. Treat the stranger as your own. Compassion knows no borders. Love has no walls. They work at the intersection of spirituality and social movements. On April 26th, we will celebrate the work that All Soulsians have done around immigration and look at the current opportunities for action.

Class meets in the Parish Hall at 9:15 am on the following Sundays in April: 4/12, 4/19 & 4/26.

Annie Hayes will lead an exploration of this great practice. Using our imaginations to dig deeper into scripture allows God to communicate with us in a personal, evocative way. Each week, we’ll dive into a different Gospel story and spend an extended amount of time prayerfully immersing ourselves in the scene. The last 15-20 minutes of each class will offer time for individual and group reflection on the prayer experience we just had. This three-session class will meet in the Common Room at 9:15 am on the following Sundays: 4/12, 4/19 & 4/26.

We are excited to bring back Faithful Families dinners! Join us for a time of intergenerational fellowship and learning. We will start with a shared meal. Then, there will be time for shared prayer practices, activities for kids, and a space for parents to connect and discuss important questions of faith. Families with children of all ages (kids, teens, young adults) are welcome to attend. 

Sundays: Feb. 1st, March 15th, and May 3rd, 5-6:30 pm. 

Please RSVP using this form. Email Emily B (emilyb@allsoulsparish.org) if you have questions. 

Every second Sunday of the month we host a jambalaya meal for anyone who is hungry. Please come by and pick up a meal to go, or sit and eat in the courtyard. For more information or if you would like to volunteer to help with this meal, contact Jennifer A (akiyama.jennifer@gmail.com)

One Thursday a month, All Soulsians meet up at a different beer garden to connect - for a drink, a bite, a chat, a game, etc. Beer gardens are ideal because they have plenty of family-friendly, outdoor space and are casual enough that anyone can drop by for a spell as they are able. This is an all-ages, intergenerational event—we would love to see everyone there!

May location: Fieldwork, 1160 6th Street, Berkeley

Just after the 10:30a service, we’ll all head up to Tilden Park for a church potluck and picnic! We’ll have a BBQ fired up with burgers and hot dogs, and maybe even play a favorite pastime of ours: a cornhole tournament. If you can help out with the picnic, please see Jeannie Koops.

Every second Sunday of the month we host a jambalaya meal for anyone who is hungry. Please come by and pick up a meal to go, or sit and eat in the courtyard. For more information or if you would like to volunteer to help with this meal, contact Jennifer A (akiyama.jennifer@gmail.com)

Join us for the first day of our 2026-27 teaching year on August 23rd during the 10:30 service. We’ll have an open house to meet teachers and learn about our curriculum; parents and children pre-K to 5th grade are welcome! Sunday School is held weekly during our 10:30 service. 

You are invited to Homecoming! Whether you’ve been coming for a while and are returning from summer, or you’ve been away for a very long time and hoping to reconnect, or if it’s your first time: welcome home. Come celebrate the start of the new year with us. We’ll have a bouncy house for the kids (and big kids), a taco truck, a popcorn machine, watermelon, and so much more! This event is open to the neighborhood and all our neighbors (even if you just want to come by and grab a taco from the truck. :)

Join us from 7 pm-8:30 pm on Sunday, September 6th, for the first meeting of our 2026-27 youth program year! Come to the courtyard to meet the new leaders and connect with other youth (plus, games, snacks, and art!). 6th - 12th graders are welcome. Look for more information about the fall calendar soon. 

Sunday morning, October 25th, we’ll gather our pledges of financial support to All Souls. Then, Sunday evening at 5:30 pm, we’ll all meet to dine and celebrate together. All are welcome to join us for this very fun and celebratory evening.

Join us as we celebrate our Feast of Title! Just after the 10:30 am service, in the Parish Hall, we’ll gather for a potluck meal together. Please bring a dish that reminds you of someone you have loved but no longer see. Feel free to include a story of the dish, the recipe, and/or a fond memory of the person alongside. We hope you will gather with us as we celebrate the saints and souls of All Souls Parish.

During the worship services, we will pray the names of those who have died over this past year. If you would like to add a name to that list of names, please do so here.

Every second Sunday of the month we host a jambalaya meal for anyone who is hungry. Please come by and pick up a meal to go, or sit and eat in the courtyard. For more information or if you would like to volunteer to help with this meal, contact Jennifer A (akiyama.jennifer@gmail.com)

Our Advent Festival kicks off the liturgical year with the season of Advent. On this night, we gather around a fire in the courtyard to sing, pray, and recall some of the stories that have brought us here. We will have hot cocoa and cookies, make Advent wreaths, and our annual All Souls Christmas ornament. This is a great night for kids and families, especially. Bring some cookies to share!