All Saints' Day celebration has a long history in the worship life of the Christian Church. It began as a commemoration of the martyrs who had died for the faith, and it has since become a day when we honor and remember those who, in death, have joined the Church Triumphant, as well as the faithful saints of the present who serve Jesus Christ. Martin Luther held that all Christians are simultaneously sinner and saint--a sinner because of our rebellious nature, but a saint because of salvation in Jesus.

During the worship service, we will honor the memory of those saints in the St. Peter’s community who have died in the last year, as well as celebrate the saints who have joined St. Peter’s through the sacrament of baptism in the last year.