All Saints' Day
Observed November 1, honoring all the faithful who have gone before.
Significance
All Saints' Day remembers the whole family of believers across history, the famous and the forgotten alike, who lived and died in faith. Scripture pictures them as a great cloud of witnesses surrounding us. The day is a reminder that the church is bigger than any single moment, that we belong to a story stretching back through the centuries, and that death does not have the final word for those who are in Christ.
Scripture
Hebrews 12:1“Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.”
How It Is Observed
All Saints' Day is observed with services of remembrance, often reading the names of those in the congregation who have died in the past year, giving thanks for their lives and witness.
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