St Barnabas & All Saints Chr

St. Barnabas and All Saints' Church started in unused stable in the Forest Park neighborhood as a mission church school of St. Peter's Church, Springfield, on the 1st Sunday after Easter in 1906. Subsequently, Evening Prayer and a sermon that were offered every Sunday by the rector of St. Peter's. The 1st priest-in-in charge, the Reverend Charles E. Hill, is credited with the idea of renaming of the mission all Saints. This was the name of the church in Springfield, Essex, in England, where Springfield's founder.