We have a new submission from our outtakes reel, just in time for a new year. Enjoy!

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All Places Together (APT) is a non-geographic community, based in Virginia. APT seeks to gather individuals who are searching for God in the wilderness of life, individuals who deeply want to connect to something beyond themselves, and individuals who believe the love of Jesus is embodied in all of God’s diverse creation.

Thank you to our Mission partners: Virginia Synod (www.vasynod.org) and Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (www.elca.org).

To give to All Places Together, visit our website: http://www.allplacestogether.org/ Scroll to the bottom of the page and click the button “Give to All Places Together.” This will take you to the APT giving page. Enter your contribution amount to the basket and follow the instructions to check out!

The next All Places podcast series is called Praying Together and Pastor Colleen hopes to include YOUR voice. Listen to learn about how you can participate in the series. Submissions shared by January 27 will be the most likely to be included.

Share your stories of prayer with Pastor Colleen at info@allplacestogether.org

Who taught you to pray? What did they teach you? Is that how you still pray?

Do you have a favorite story about prayer from the bible? Why is it your favorite? How has the story shaped your prayer life?

What does the Lord’s Prayer mean to you?

How do you engage your body in prayer?

If you make prayer shawls, walk labyrinths, use prayer beads, or engage in another type of physical prayer, how did you begin that journey? How do you feel connected to God during the process?

If you’re good at silence, how did you develop this practice? How do you maintain it? How have you heard God’s voice in the process?

Share a story about how praying the hours has been a meaningful practice for you.

How does music, either making or listening, contribute to your prayer life?

How does praying together in worship feed your individual faith and connection to the wider community?

Does your faith community have a particular prayer practice that is meaningful to you?

Why do you keep praying if there is still war, hunger, and suffering?

Happy 2025 and happy last episode of Make the Yuletide Gay! Join Pastor Keats and Pastor Colleen as they reflect on how God’s grace has worked and is continuing to work in their lives and the world around us.

Merry Christmas from All Places Together! Listen and explore what the phrase “Son of God, love’s pure light” from Silent Night teaches us about who Jesus is with Pastor Keats from Technicolor Ministries and Pastor Colleen.

Christmas is almost here and Pastor Keats and Pastor Colleen are still making the yuletide gay. This week they reflect on the phrase “glories stream from heaven afar” from Silent Night and imagine together what heaven is like, when it is both far and near.

Join Pastor Colleen and Pastor Keats as they talk about how brave shepherds are and how things must be really scary to make them quake.

It’s week three of Making the Yuletide Gay and we’re reflecting on: Shepherds quake at the sight. Just as the shepherds trusted God and grew confidence through our life experiences, we can too.

Is it just us or does it low key feel like the world is ending? Or is it just always this way? Join Pastor Colleen and Pastor Keats of Technicolor Ministries as they reflect on the phrase “All is calm, all is bright” from Silent Night and find ways to cultivate calm and see the bright even in the chaos.

This Advent you’re invited to Make the Yuletide Gay with Technicolor Ministries and All Places Together.

This year, we’re queering Silent Night and exploring how this beloved hymn continues to share the power of Jesus’ birth with a hurting world. Pastors Keats and Colleen will reflect on the hope, strength, and love we receive from God. In this first episode, they explore how we can be tender and mild like Jesus.