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Welcome to St. Stephen’s Anglican Parish Blog
for Sunday, 21 January, 2018
 
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;  only love can do that.
Martin Luther King Jr
 
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WORSHIP THIS WEEK
Sunday, 21 January 2018
The Third Sunday after Epiphany

                       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 
                        4:30 pm     All Saints’,         Canaan                      
                        Evening Prayer                    
                                                                 
Readings:  Jonah 3: 1-5, 10; Psalm 62: 6-12;
1 Corinthians 7: 29-31; Mark 1: 14-20
 
 
 
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ANNOUNCEMENTS

MUSICAL FRIENDS
  on Mon, 22 Jan 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!

ANNUAL REPORT
 Requesting committee chairs e-mail or drop off
committee reports to the Parish Office
ready for inclusion in the Annual Report
as soon as possible.

PASTORAL CARE
The Breakfast Program at the school was
very grateful to receive the $200 donation
from our three churches.

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 MORE 
Diocese of NS & PEI Mission School
Module #2 – Focus on More
MORE  Mission Schools are getting rave reviews!
Close to 470 people attended Module #1.
You and your parish team don’t want to miss the next one!
MORE offers an exciting opportunity for us to learn together
how to be mission-focused and take practical steps to respond
to God’s leading for the future and making of new disciples.

Module #2, Focus on More, explores positive approaches
to resistance and challenges to being more missional.
The FREE workshop is for lay and clergy
with plenty of discussion and opportunity to ask questions.
If you missed the first module – no worries!
Each session stands alone.  REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED!

MORE is based on God’s desire to give the world
MORE of what it really needs – hope, love, and freedom. 
MORE is not a program, but a way of seeing ourselves
and our church transformed so we can grow! 
March 3 – Holy Trinity, 78 Alexandra Street, Bridgewater
9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Lunch Provided – Open to Everyone
REGISTER ONLINE:www.nspeidiocese.ca
(or call  902-420-0717).
Deadline is 28 Feb 2018.


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ST. STEPHEN’S PARISH
LENTEN STUDY PROGRAM 2018

11 a.m.  Tuesdays,
20 February -  20 March
St. Stephen’s Parish Centre

This year, we will study C. S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters.
At once wildly comic, deadly serious, and strikingly original,
C. S. Lewis gives us the correspondence
of the worldly-wise old devil to his nephew Wormwood,
a novice demon in charge of securing the damnation
of an ordinary young man.
“The Screwtape Letters” is the most engaging and
humourous account of temptation - and triumph over it
- ever written”.

Participants are asked to acquire their own copies
(available both in physical and ebook form).
However, if you would like to participate,
and need assistance, please contact the Parish Office
not later than Monday, 4 February 2018.

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WORSHIP NEXT WEEK
Sunday, 28 January 2018
The Fourth Sunday after Epiphany

                       8:00 am      St. Stephen’s,    Chester                       
        Holy Communion
                       9:15 am      St. George’s,     East River                   
                           Holy Eucharist and                
                                       Annual General Meeting                
                     11:00 am      St. Stephen’s,    Chester                       
     Holy Eucharist
4:30 pm     All Saints’,         Canaan
     Evening Prayer

                          Readings:  Deutoronomy 18: 15-20; Psalm 111:                   
     1 Corinthians 8: 1-13; Mark 1: 21-28

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