Wednesday 14 March 2018

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Welcome to St. Stephen’s Anglican Parish Blog
for week ending Sunday, 18 March 2018
 
The day the Lord created hope was
probably the same day he created Spring
Bernard Williams
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WORSHIP THIS WEEK

Sunday, 18 March 2018
The Fifth Sunday in Lent

       8:00 am      St. Stephen’s,    Chester 
              Holy Communion
            9:15 am      St. George’s,      East River   
          Morning Prayer
    11:00 am      St. Stephen’s,    Chester
          Holy Eucharist 
    4:30 pm      All Saints’,        Canaan
         Evening Prayer
                                                                                     
Readings:  Jeremiah 31: 31-34; Psalm 51: 1-13;
Hebrews 5: 5-10; John 12: 20-33

LENTEN SERVICES
Wednesday, 21 March
10:30 am     St. Stephen’s,     Chester  
 
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ANNOUNCEMENTS

MUSICAL FRIENDS
  on Mon, 19 March 2018.
1:00 Vintage Voices
2:00  Musical Friends Choir
3:00 Musical Friends Band
4:00 Tuneful Tots
All Welcome


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 ST. STEPHEN’S PARISH
LENTEN STUDY PROGRAM 2018
 11 a.m.  Tuesdays,
20 February -  27 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, if needed.

PARISH COUNCIL MEETING
on Tuesday, 20 March
at 7:00 pm
in the Tyler Grant Room.

LENTEN LUNCH PROGRAM
will begin at 11:45 – 1:00 pm on
Wednesday, 21 March
in St. Stephen’s Parish Centre.
Enjoy a wonderful homemade lunch
for only $8.00. 
Speaker:  Vicky Silvia
Souls Harbour, Bridgewater
Bring your friends, fill a table!
(Snow days:  school cancelled
Lunch also cancelled)

MAKING PALM CROSSES
on Sat, 24 March
in the Parish Centre
time to be confirmed
Many hands make light work!

 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  
kids’ lunch box treats
(juice packs, raisins, granola bars, etc)
NO peanut products, please
All donations are very gratefully received. 

HOSPITALITY
 Anyone interested in helping to prepare food,
set up tables, help with clean up, etc, for funeral receptions,
please contact the Parish Office
to be put on the Hospitality Contact List. 
As we are all so busy these days,
it is more efficient to send out one e-mail to everyone
when the office is first notified of an event
so that those on the list can contact the Committee Chair
to let her know what they can do to help. 
For those without access to computers,
a telephone tree can be set up.  
A sign up list will be located at the back of the church
for those who would like to be on the telephone tree.

GODSPELL
the musical will be
performed by the
‘Have a Laugh Players’
in St. Stephen’s Church on
Monday, 26 March at 7: 30 pm
Tickets $20
Available from Chester Pharmasave
and the Parish Office.

GOOD FRIDAY
INTER-DENOMINATIONAL SERVICE
 will take place at 11am
at the Chester United Baptist Church
on Friday, 30 March. 
We are excited about  this collaboration
and hope you will join us
and the inter-church choir for this service.

PALM SUNDAY
(25 March),
our 11 a.m. worship will begin in the Parish Centre,
for the Liturgy of the Palms,
followed by procession to the church.
If we have poor weather,
we will begin in the church as usual

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WORSHIP NEXT WEEK
Sunday, 25 March 2018
Palm Sunday

       8:00 am      St. Stephen’s,    Chester 
              Holy Communion
            9:15 am      St. George’s,      East River   
         Holy Eucharist
    11:00 am      St. Stephen’s,    Chester
          Holy Eucharist 
                                                                                         
Readings:  Jeremiah 31: 31-34; Psalm 51: 1-13;
Hebrews 5: 5-10; John 12: 20-33

LENTEN SERVICES
Wednesday, 28 March
10:30 am     St. Stephen’s,     Chester  

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