Who is All Saints?

Recently we asked members how they would describe All Saints' – as well as what attracted them to this place, and why they have stayed. Here is a compendium of their responses:

All Saints' is a family committed to embrace the Divine in all through experiencing and sharing the compassionate story of Jesus Christ. We are deeply rooted in Episcopal Tradition while we find innovative ways of experiencing God's presence in all Sacred Traditions.

All Saints’ is a place of freedom that allows you to discover your relationship with God and God’s relationship with you without being told what that is. Here, it is okay not to believe, it is okay to question. We recognize that the longing for God comes from within each person.

We are a welcoming place of spiritual and physical beauty - a place for you to enter into (and grow in) the heart of Christianity.

A Look at our History

When construction began on the present Church of the Good Shepherd in 1949, their former building, known as 'the little white church,' which had been erected downtown in 1878, was taken outside the city limits and set down in the midst of a landscape filled with cotton fields at what is now 3026 S. Staples. One year later, this new mission had been admitted to the Diocese of West Texas as a self-supporting parish. The first service was held in the newly relocated church on February 19, 1949. The church continued to grow in faith and in numbers, and on November 5, 1964, the 'little white church' was replaced by our present structure. In 1969 a new day school, David Wicks School, was created and served many children in our community from the late 1960's to the mid 1990's.