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Upcoming events

New Calendars for Jan to April will be distributed at our Jan. 10

Business Meeting. Here is a synopsis of upcoming events!

Jan 11 7p-9p Spiritual Connections (open to public) Parish Ctr Rms 1-2

Jan 15 830a-1230p Knights of Columbus Breakfast Parish Center Gym

Jan 15 - 12n-3p Degree Teams’ Auditions School Cafeteria

Jan 17 7p-9p Arts & Crafts (open to public) Parish Ctr Rms 1-2

Jan 21 6pm - 7p St. Martin of Tours Chili Potluck St. Martin’s GYM

Jan 25 7p-9pm Spiritual Connections (open to public) Parish Ctr Rms 1-2

Jan 31 7p-9pm Arts & Crafts (open to public) Parish Ctr Rms 1-2

Feb 7 530p—6p Rosary (open to public) All Saints Church

Feb 7 630p-8p Business Meeting (based on vote) 39ers Room

Feb 8 7p-9p Spiritual Connections (open to public) Parish Ctr Rms 1-2

Feb 10 630p-830p Board of Officers Meeting Location TBA

Feb 11 - 10a-2pm Major Degree Team Rehearsal All Saints GYM

Feb 12 930a-2p Valentines Breakfast St. Martins Church

Feb 12 5p-7p First Supper All Saints Parish Center

Feb 17 630p-830p 1st Degree Team Rehearsal School Cafeteria

Feb 18 - 2p-4p 1st Degree Exemplification All Saint’s GYM

Feb 19 830a-1230p Knights of Columbus Breakfast Parish Center Gym

Feb 22 7p-9p Spiritual Connections (open to public) Parish Ctr Rms 1-2

Feb 28 7p-9pm Arts & Crafts (open to public) Parish Ctr Rms 1-2

Mar 7 7p-9pm Arts & Crafts (open to public) Parish Ctr Rms 1-2

Mar 8 7p-9pm Spiritual Connections (open to public) Parish Ctr Rms 1-2

Mar 11 10a-12n Board of Officers Meeting Location TBA

Mar 11 1p-3pm Major Degree Team Rehearsal All Saints Gym

Mar 14 530p Rosary (open to public) All Saints Church

Mar 14 630p-8p Monthly Business Meeting Parish Ctr 39ers Room

Mar 19 830a-1230p Knights of Columbus Breakfast Parish Center Gym

Mar 29 7p-9pm Spiritual Connections (open to public) Parish Ctr Rms 1-2

Apr 4 7p-9pm Arts & Crafts (open to public) Parish Ctr Rms 1-2

Apr 11 530p Rosary (open to public) All Saints Church

Apr 11 630p-8p Monthly Business Meeting Parish Ctr 39ers Room

Announcements!

Let me be the first, to wish each of you and your families a New Year filled with good Health and Happiness. Let us continue to pray for one another and remember our sick sisters and brothers in our prayers too.

Peace and Joy to all,

Pat Zellner

Supreme President

Open house Eligible ladies from all local parishes can attend.

12 local Tacoma churches are also being invited!

Sunday March 19, 2017

12 noon to 2pm

St. Martin of Tours Church, Fife

1st/2nd degree

exemplifications

Apr 7 630p—930p Major Degree Team Rehearsal

All Saints Gym

Apr 8 1p-5pm Exemplification Ceremonies

Followed by sit down dinner

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Prayers and happy wishes for the lovely

birthday ladies below!

JANUARY

7 Jan O

8 Julie C

10 Dodi R

14 Keely C

25 LeeAnn D

FEBRUARY

1 Ginger S

13 Jodi G

24 Susan C

Car 4 Sale

1998 Lincoln Towncar $3885 OBO

Call or see Pule T.

(253) 229-4830

New Volunteer Opportunities

Prepares Program

Finally Getting Off the Ground

Volunteer opportunities include:

PREPARES Bags – Volunteer to collect and dis-tribute donated items for children, from age 0 to 5, such as diapers, clothing, toys and more.

PREPARES Parish Coordinator – Volunteer as a liaison between the parish volunteers and PREPARES staff. Recruit, support, and communicate with volunteers and provide rou-tine updates of community needs to parish leadership and PREPARES staff.

Mentor - Provide emotional support for a parent in their parish community. Volunteer commits to spend 2 hours a week with the moth-er/father or family they are mentoring to.

And many more

For more info and to sign up to help, call Jo Keller at 253—840-3459

And even more ways to help...

Helping Seniors in the Community

Volunteering as a Visiting Companion to Nursing Home Residents

Volunteer opportunities include:

Sitting and chatting with residents Just being a friendly face to the folks Praying and/or singing Sharing stories and pictures Reading poetry or stories Being a good listener Possibly taking the Eucharist to them

For more info and to sign up to help, call Alice Everett-Farrar at 253—841-2707

Big Big Thanks goes out to

Sandy Ross for all of her help

with this newsletter— choosing

graphics, interviewing and ed-

iting!

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Shirley Wagner was born at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Tacoma, Washington and was baptized at All Saints Church. She moved to Tacoma and grew up in St. Leo’s Parish. She moved back to Puyallup where she attended All Saints Church and at age 22, she married Dale, her current husband, 54 years ago! They were high school sweethearts and would go out on group dates with girls from her high school at St. Leo’s while Dale attended Lincoln High School. Shirley’s most re-warding accomplishment has been raising 3 children, having 8 grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren They had two beautiful boys and one girl. Currently, two of her grandkids live with her and Dale (Danny, age 10, and Erin, age 18). Her biggest challenge in life has been helping raise them and attending all their activities.

She attended vocational school and got her first job at U-Haul Trailer Company as a telephone operator and worked her way up to Office Manager. She then left there and started working for the Murano Hotel (previously the Shera-ton) in their banquet department and has been there for 31 years! She tried several times to retire, but can’t bring herself around to leaving what she calls the greatest group of people to work with along with having the most terrific boss. She is a part-time employee there now and still loves every minute of her job!

Some of Shirley’s hobbies include sewing, quilting with her sister (She is very close to her sister Judy and brother Edward and considers Judy her best friend), reading, hiking, visiting garage sales (spending money too!), helping the homeless, and skiing. One thing most don't know about her is she still skis and chaperones kids on the ski bus. In fact, She has been a chaperone for young adults on a ski bus that takes the kids to Snoqualmie Ski area. Shirley has rightly earned the title of “Gramma in the Lodge” for her twenty plus years of caring and helpful acts of kindness with the kids such as finding lost gloves for them, helping them with their needs at the ski lodge, supplying energy snacks, etc. Shirley is truly a ‘cornerstone’ for these kids.

Shirley has traveled extensively throughout the world. Many times, she puts out an invitation for folks to join her on trips abroad and who shows up, goes with her! Some of her travels have found Shirley and her husband Dale, in Germa-ny when he worked for Boeing. They used a Eurail pass and visited Switzerland, Paris and Germany for 3 weeks. On her Dec. 7 wedding anniversary one year, they went on a cruise to the French Riviera for 7 days. She also visited Greece twice for weddings of her friends and stayed a month. One of her most interesting trips two years ago was a Viking River cruise to China. When asked what was always the best part of her travels, Shirley replied, “The people. They always felt like they were part of the family when meeting new folks!”

Shirley has been extremely active in her community and at All Saints Church as a very dedicated and caring vol-unteer. Some of her volunteer activities include being a member of the Columbiettes, the Catholic Womens’ Club in Taco-ma (where she is involved in doing charitable works every week such as holding baby showers for expectant mothers), All Saints Funeral Ministry, Sister Myrna’s Manna, New Hope Resource Center, helping with the monthly dinners at the ar-mory, and making food and toilet articles bags for the homeless. Many times, Shirley throws in extra goodies into the bags for the kids, such as warm gloves and flashlights.

If Shirley won 5 million dollars, she would pay off New Hope Resource Center and help the homeless. And if you want to make Shirley a happy camper, her favorite dessert is flan, favorite meal is lobster, and she loves to receive gifts of the presence of her friends who come to visit her! Most special to her is her friendship with women she has known since they eternal freshmen in high school. They still meet together frequently, have been godparents to each other's children and travel together. Their most special trip was to visit Fatima, Medjugore and Rome. They were blessed to see St Pope John Paul II in St Peter's Square. He is the person she would most love to have been able to have dinner with.

I’d like to say to “Gramma of the Lodge” - Keep up your energizing life of volunteerism— You are truly a role model for all of us and we wish you many more years of having fun with your family and friends!

Interviewed by Sandy Ross and Deb Ramirez

Columbiette: Shirley Wagner

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“Therefore, Welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of

God.” — Romans 15:7

How many times have you heard someone say that they came to church for weeks or even months and were never

greeted by anyone at Mass? Or maybe YOU had that experience. With the encouragement and blessing of our pastor,

I have agreed to spearhead a new effort to welcome all new parishioners joining the All Saints parish community in

three specific ways—first —mailing a newly created, more beautiful & informative WELCOME PACKET to each

newly registered member, second— introducing them to the parish family & one another at a “FIRST SUPPER”

gathering, and third—matching them with a parishioner “SPONSOR”. This will be a HUGE undertaking to get off the

ground and I am asking you, my sister Columbiettes, for your prayers and support to make it a success.

We are kicking off with a “First Supper” on Sunday, Feb 12th after the 5:00 pm Mass. We’ll need help with food

donations, set up & clean up, and—perhaps most importantly—for some generous individuals/families who are

willing to act as “hosts” to greet, introduce, and facilitate a fun evening for our guests.

The new Welcome Packets are “under construction” and I hope we will be able to begin printing and using them

within the next couple of months.

Finally, New Parishioner Sponsors! This is, in my opinion, the most important component of what we are endeavoring

to do. The Welcome Packets will be an immediate greeting & provide some information and the First Suppers will

hopefully be fun group gatherings to introduce new parishioners but these will only be held three times a year. My

hope and expectation is that a sponsor will be, for the first 4 months after someone has registered in the parish, a

familiar smiling face in the pew at Sunday Mass, that invitation to “sit with us” at the breakfast, that phone-call-away

person who knows where the prayer shawl group meets or where to find the nursery for their toddler on Sunday

morning. We would like to match sponsors with individuals or families who have similar interests, family structures

or, at least, with someone who attends the same Mass. But, most important of all, we want a warm enthusiastic

friendly face to make it just that little bit easier to join in all the wonderful things that are happening in and around our

parish. I am asking each of you to think and pray about this and then write down and send to me, by text or email,

maybe three names of people who you think would make great sponsors. I will contact them, explain our plans, state

that their name was mentioned as someone who would be a great ambassador for the All Saints community, and ask

them to join this new ministry. Don’t forget—-you can nominate yourself too!

“Beloved, it is a loyal thing you do when you render any service to the

brethren, especially to strangers, who have testified to your love before the

church. You will do well to send them on their journey in a manner that

honors God. For they have set out for his sake and have accepted nothing

from the heathen. We ought therefore to show hospitality to such people, that

we may work together for the truth.” 3 John 5-8

We have described ourselves on the parish website as “a generous people…with enthusiasm, compassion and care”.

We must “walk the talk” and offer that generosity, compassion and care to the newest amongst us so that they will

feel comfortable and included and truly, truly welcome in our midst. I have watched and witnessed, over the last year,

so many acts of kindness, caring, and generosity from YOU, my sister Columbiettes! I have the utmost confidence

that many of you will step forward to help and be wonderful role models to other parishioners to get involved.

For more info and to help out, please call

MaryJo Young (text) 253-576-7099 (email) maryjo.cqr1@comcast.net