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All Souls UU Church NEWSletter: Ministers Series, Part I - Alfred von Stilli In 1998, All Souls Church began publication of a NEWSletter. The second edition initiated a series of articles about the church’s early ministers. Information for project was gleaned from church records, photographs and articles from the Brownsville Herald. All Soul’s first historian - Dr. Beatrice Hawkins - maintained a well ordered “scrapbook” that documented events of the earliest years of the church. All these documents were rescued from the humidity and insect infestation of Von Stilli Hall. They are in a continual state of reorganization, but are being preserved. The first article in the All Soul’s ministers series is from the NEWSletter, volume 1, issue 2 (October 15, 1998). It gives an overview of the work of All Souls founder and first minister - Alfred E. von Stilli. All Souls Church Covenant and Statement of Purpose - 1954 An unknown poet, from an unknown time wrote: My church has but one temple, Wide as the world is wide, Set with a million altars, Where a million hearts abide. My church has no creed to bar A single brother man, But says, "come thou and worship," To everyone who can. In 1954, the Reverend John Forwalter, second minister of All Souls Church, had printed pocket sized cards expressing his understanding of the Covenant and Purpose of Brownsville's Unitarian Church. Only one of these cards remains in our possession, and it has been badly maligned by time and bugs. Here, Rev. Forwalter gives words to the spirit of "Our Covenant," and "Statement of Purpose." It appears that the "Statement of Purpose" revisits the original "Objectives" of the Unitarian Church of the Rio Grande Valley, adopted September 19, 1951. Incomplete copies of 1951 "Objectives" exist in church notes, but the original document has been lost. The completion of the Forwalter's text was printed on the backside of a card that was severely damaged. The words typed below the photocopy of the document are an exact reproduction of the short, concluding phrase. To recognize as one of the many religious cultures, our natural Christian heritage; to seek within it the enduring values; to follow as we understand it, the leadership of Jesus: To hold our purpose always open that we may be free to grow.

All Souls Church Covenant and Statement of Purpose - 1954 An unknown poet, from an unknown time wrote: My church has but one temple, Wide as the world is wide, Set with a million altars, Where a million hearts abide. My church has no creed to bar A single brother man, But says, "come thou and worship," To everyone who can.

Once there was a newsletter

NO CREEDS

So small a church

Cpl. R B Allbaugh, July 1945

Original Flagpole Dedication

Artist's conception of All Souls Unitarian Church

All Souls 1950

All Souls Sanctuary now

All Souls Sanctuary then . . .

ASUU patio 1950

ASUU garden with first fountain

These once bloomed in our garden. They still survive but have not been seem to bloom in a long time.

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Closing down soon ?

Eric Swader's recent projects at All Souls, landscape pots made of recycled materials such as broken tiles, glass, toilets and more! He's being Mr. Silly at the end of the video.