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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