Welcome to St. Stephen’s Anglican Parish Blog

for week ending Sunday, 4 March 2018

 

Love all, trust a few,

do wrong to none

William Shakespeare

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WORSHIP THIS WEEK

Sunday, 4 March 2018

The Third Sunday of Lent

  8:00 am      St. Stephen’s,     Chester

        Holy Communion

     9:15 am      St. George’s,      East River

    Holy Eucharist

           4:30 pm      All Saints’,          Holy Eucharist

    Holy Eucharist 

Readings:  Exodus 20: 1-17; Psalm 19;

1 Corinthians 1: 18-25; John 2: 13-22

 

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

MUSICAL FRIENDS

  on Mon, 5 March 2018.

Vintage Voices 1:00 pm

Musical Friends Choir 2:00 pm

Musical Friends Band 3:00 pm

Tuneful Tots 4:00 pm.

All Welcome!

 ST. STEPHEN’S PARISH

LENTEN STUDY PROGRAM 2018

 11 a.m.  Tuesdays,

20 February -  20 March

St. Stephen’s Parish Centre

 This year, we are studying

C. S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters.

Participants are asked to bring their

own copies but copies are available

at the office.

LENTEN LUNCH PROGRAM

will begin at 11:45 – 1:00 pm on

Wednesday, 7 March

in St. Stephen’s Parish Centre.

Enjoy a wonderful homemade lunch

for only $8.00. 

Speaker:  Lee Simpson

Author of My Year of Buying Nothing

Bring your friends, fill a table!

(Snow days:  school cancelled

Lunch also cancelled)

PASTORAL CARE

For the Sundays before Easter, we would be most grateful

for donations of foil wrapped chocolate eggs

and Easter bunnies (big or small), wrapped gum,

Easter stickers, suckers, etc. 

 We hope to provide filled

plastic eggs for the families with small children

who use the Food Bank.

A donation basket is at the back of the church.

FOOD BANK SUNDAYS FOR LENT

This Sunday  

we are looking for we are looking for jam,

peanut butter, cheese whiz, and mayonnaise.

All donations are very gratefully received. 

WORLD DAY OF PRAYER

 Fri, 2 March, 11:00 am

New Ross Baptist Church, 61 Forties Road, New Ross. 

Lunch follows in the New Ross Legion. 

Call Karan 902-275-3143 if would like a drive.

LENTEN WORKSHOP

 Spiritual Wellness

Self Examination and Reconciliation.

Friday, 9 March 9:00-noon

at St. Stephen’s Parish Centre. 

This is a 3 hour workshop that allows us

to explore God’s grace through self-examination,

prayer and reconciliation with God,

neighbour, creation and ourselves. 

All Welcome!

GODSPELL

the musical by Stephen Schwartz which was first

performed in New York in 1971

is being presented by the

Have a Laugh Players

in St. Stephen’s Church on

Monday, 26 March.

Tickets $20

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WORSHIP NEXT WEEK

LENTEN SERVICES

Wednesday, 7 March

10:30 am     St. Stephen’s,     Chester  

WORSHIP NEXT WEEK

Sunday, 11 March 2018

The Fourth Sunday in Lent

                        8:00 am      St. Stephen’s,    Chester                       

                         9:15 am      St. George’s,      East River                   

                      11:00 am      St. Stephen’s,    Chester                      

                                                                                     

Readings:  Numbers 21: 4-9; Psalm 107: 1-3, 17-22;

Ephesians 2: 1-10; John 3: 14-21

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