Building collaborative relationships with church leaders and congregations to revitalize
the church through conferences, consultation, publication, and other creative projects.

Rick is founder of All Saints Company and co-founder of St. Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church.  Since the early days of his ordained ministry, Rick has offered to the church an extraordinary ability to synthesize modern church growth models with patristic theology and practice.  He realized his life-long dream to found a church on the teaching of the Cappadocian theologians with the founding of St. Gregory of Nyssa in 1978, which has developed an international reputation as a center for the development of Christian worship.  A highly-regarded liturgical scholar, he is a member of the international Societas Liturgica and the North American Academy of Liturgy.  He continues to lecture and write, and his church music compositions are published in various Episcopalian service books.

Over the past 30 years, Donald has founded and developed the urban congregation of St. Gregory’s from an organizing dozen members to a parish with national recognition for its innovative approaches to liturgy and mission and its teaching contribution to the wider church. In 2007, Donald joined All Saints Company full time in order to consult, publish, and lead workshops on the discoveries made at St. Gregory’s.  Donald has written My Father, My Daughter: Pilgrims on the Road to Santiago and has contributed chapters to Searching for Sacred Space, to What Would Jesus Sing?, and to Music By Heart: Paperless Songs for Evening Worship.

Emma Donohew is currently serving as Interim Project Coordinator at All Saints Company. In fall 2010 she will begin her internship with the company and assist with the Artist and Writers Weekends. Emma is currently a Masters of Divinity student at Pacific School of Religion across the bay in Berkeley, CA, and is also a certified candidate for ordained ministry within the United Methodist Church. She is very passionate about the arts in worship, and is enjoying the diversity of religious expression within the Bay Area. Emma is thrilled to be a part of the exciting, creative opportunities at ASC.

Matthew’s work is centered around coordinating and producing conferences and publications for All Saints Company. He holds master’s degrees in theology and music from Oxford, Harvard, and Boston Universities, and also works as the Director of Music Ministry at Christ Episcopal Church in Portola Valley, California. He was the Managing Editor of The Harvard University Hymn Book (Harvard University Press, 2007), and was formerly Director of Music at Harvard Divinity School. Within the Episcopal Diocese of California, he serves on the Liturgy and Music Commission and is an elected Lay Delegate to Diocesan Convention.

Emily Scott coordinates the New Music Project—an effort to encourage the practice of “paperless” music in a church setting. She has been involved in the planning and leading of All Saints Company events built around the practice of singing by ear with congregations. Emily has been intrigued by the connections between the arts and worship since childhood, and is building a career dedicated to crafting worship that creates a space for people from diverse backgrounds to sing and pray together. She recently helped to found a new experimental congregation, St. Lydia’s, in New York.