All Saints' Church Bell Tower Completed July 2007

 Parish Ministries Building as Viewed From Madison St. - 2007

Parish Hall - 2007

All Saints'  Episcopal Church 
is currently one of the Diocese of Mississippi’s fastest growing and most dynamic congregations. While the church today is home to nearly 500 communicants, our beginnings are traced back to 1870 (the same year Tupelo was founded) when six Episcopalians began meeting in a Presbyterian church building. Bishop William Mercer Green visited them on Oct. 3, 1870 and the Diocese assigned them the status of “mission station.” It took nearly forty years for All Saints’ to achieve the status as an official Mission church—in 1909, with the roll listing 22 communicants.

New Parish Hall, Office & Program Space -

While Under Construction

2006

It would take almost fifty years more for All Saints’ to become a parish—a self- supporting congregation. This status was granted by the Diocese of Mississippi in January 1957. Throughout those long years, the church had weathered storms, both literal and figurative, including Tupelo’s devastating tornado of 1936, which demolished the brick church built in 1910 and heavily damaged the rectory next door. A new church—the building that today serves as the chapel—was completed in 1938, on the same Jefferson Street site.

All Saints' Chapel

In 1992, All Saints’ constructed a new church building, thus positioning the parish for the remarkable growth that we have experienced since that time. The congregation more than doubled by the time the 1990’s came to a close. As it became obvious that we needed to address the severe limitations of a cramped and deteriorating physical plant, it was determined that entirely new program, fellowship, and administrative facilities should be built. All Saints’ stepped up boldly. In 2004, the congregation looked ahead, then looked within, and conducted a highly successful capital campaign for the new construction—a dramatic expansion reflecting not just numerical growth but strong programs in Christian Education, Youth life, church music, fellowship, and outreach.

After 1936 Tornado

But activity and growth, while important, are insufficient ends in-and-of themselves for Christian life. These measures must reflect the vibrant presence of the Holy Spirit in a congregation whose members minister to each other and to the needs of a hurting world in the name of Jesus Christ. All Saints’ is a place where that is happening, and that is why we are confident that—even considering the many blessings we have known in recent years—our best days are yet to come.

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