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Welcome to St. Stephen’s Anglican Parish Blog
for week ending Sunday, 11 March 2018
 
Let’s share our similarities,
and celebrate our differences
M. Scott Peck
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WORSHIP THIS WEEK

Sunday, 11 March 2018
The Fourth Sunday in Lent

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:  Numbers 21: 4-9; Psalm 107: 1-3, 17-22;
Ephesians 2: 1-10; John 3: 14-21

LENTEN SERVICES
Wednesday, 14 March
10:30 am     St. Stephen’s,     Chester  
 
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ANNOUNCEMENTS

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!

NO MUSICAL FRIENDS
  on Mon, 12 March 2018.
March Break.
Program resumes on 19 March.


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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 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, 14 March
in St. Stephen’s Parish Centre.
Enjoy a wonderful homemade lunch
for only $8.00. 
Speaker:  Derwin Swinemar
Fire Safety at Home
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  
canned tuna and soda crackers
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.

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

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

GOOD FRIDAY
INTERDENOMINATIONAL 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.

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WORSHIP NEXT 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   
         Holy Eucharist
    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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