Vision :
All Saints Episcopal Church recognizes God's presence in all people and creation. We seek to provide and sustain a community of love to assist each other in our journey through life. We gather as a community of all ages to praise God, hear the word and share the feast, to educate and seek spiritual growth and to receive forgiveness and healing. We go forth in peace to love and serve as Christ loves us.

About Us:

We have been described as a friendly, highly participative and welcoming congregation. We emphasize strong fellowship programs and caring and support for one another. We also recognize that there are needs beyond our neighborhood and we apply ourselves to our outreach activities. We recognize that people vary in their gifts and needs, so we offer a broad array of programs and use our member's talents in many ways. For a brief description of the many programs at All Saints, see our Parish Life page.

History:

In 1858, two years after Northfield was founded, the members of the Episcopal Ladies Social Circle organized the parish of All Saints. The new congregation held services in the Northfield Lyceum building, which still stands on 4th Street. By 1866, the parish had outgrown this modest meeting space, and Solomon Burleson was engaged to design and construct the new church, which was completed by Christmas of that year at a cost of $3000. The architecture is a style that has been called "Prairie Gothic" — reflecting a nineteenth-century desire to revive the Gothic style of the Episcopal tradition's Anglican roots, using materials appropriate to the midwest frontier.

Over the next century, few major changes were made to the church itself; a basement was dug, additions were built on, new furnishings and coats of paint were added, but the worship space remained relatively unchanged. Then, in 1982, a committee was formed to oversee the renovation of the church interior with an eye toward restoring the historic character of the space. The project was completed in 1988, and included window repair, refinished and replaced floors, new pews based on original designs, and other new wood furnishings. A planned finishing touch on the renovation, the installation of 1880s-style hanging lamps, was completed in 2003.