All Saints Day Resources
How is your church honoring and recognizing
its generous saints who have gone to glory?
Combine your All Saints Day celebration with a planned giving invitation!
All Saints Day Resource Guide
The Foundation has assembled a resource guide to help church leaders and pastors plan and celebrate All Saints Day as part of their Sunday morning worship services and to help them combine All Saints Day with a Planned Giving invitation.
Links to our resource guide and components of the resource guide are listed below. Contact us to help with your legacy-giving materials.
Free Video
Encourage legacy giving in your congregation this All Saints Day with the Foundation’s complimentary video to present in your Sunday services.
The three-minute professionally produced video features testimonies from Methodist donors and outlines the ways your church members can leave a legacy.
Individual Components of the Resource Guide:
Advance Letter to Congregation
Sample Gift Card (customizable with your church name)
Sample Donor Story Flyer
(We can work with you to create a flyer on a saint in your church)
Sermon 1 (by Rob Fairly)
Sermon 2 (by Rev. Richard Hull)
List of Hymns (UMH number provided)
Children’s Sermon (By Rev. Richard Hull)
All Saints Day is a day to remember. For United Methodists, there are many denominational resources for celebrating the day:
The United Methodist Hymnal (page 938)
The United Methodist Book of Worship (#413-15)
The Faith We Sing (Worship Planner Edition, p. 157)