This Week’s Newsletter

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Here is this week’s newsletter: St Stephens News XXVII No 4

This Week’s Newsletter

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Here is this week’s newsletter: St Stephens News XXVII No 3

Shrove Tuesday Supper on 9 February

Pancake supper

Even newer correction! Because of the impending snow storm, the Pancake Supper has been postponed to Sunday, February 14th, following the 9:15 AM service (meaning it will begin around 10:15 AM).

Saint Stephen’s Shrove Tuesday Pancake & Sausage Supper takes place on February 9th at 5:30 PM on Sunday, February 14th, following the 9:15 AM . . . → Read More: Shrove Tuesday Supper on 9 February

Oh what culinary delights 
picky eaters are missing!

steak and kidney pie

The vast array of foods Americans find ‘yucky’ never ceases to amaze me. An admittedly unscientific survey I recently conducted indicates that a sizeable number, given their druthers, would subsist solely on pizza–and cheese pizza at that, unsullied by ‘yucky stuff’ like pepperoni, sausage and mushrooms.

There’s nothing new about this. It’s been going . . . → Read More: Oh what culinary delights 
picky eaters are missing!

This Week’s Newsletter

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Here is this week’s newsletter: St Stephens News XXVII No 2

This Week’s Newsletter

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Here is this week’s newsletter: St Stephens News XXVII No 1

The Cookie Walk: a great success against the odds

Cookie Walk 2012 Servers

This year the economy, the weather, the U.S. Postal Service, and sheer dumb luck conspired against the Cookie Walk. But, despite the odds stacked against it, St Stephen’s 26th Annual Cookie Walk was nonetheless a remarkable success.

Parish Life Committee Treasurer, Cindy Baker, reported that takings on the day of the Cookie Walk itself totalled . . . → Read More: The Cookie Walk: a great success against the odds

Pray for those who won’t pray for the San Bernadino victims

Many people are hot under the collar over the ugly reaction by some in politics and the media to the public officials, including presidential candidates, who declared they would be offering prayers for the victims of the recent Islamic terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California.

Their anger is perfectly justified. No matter one’s opinion about . . . → Read More: Pray for those who won’t pray for the San Bernadino victims

December Parish Life meeting recap (December 8th 2015)

Highlights from the December 28th, 2015, meeting of the Parish Life Meeting:

Cookie Walk – Final figures for the Cookie Walk will be available at the next meeting, as there are continuing sales of items. Many positive comments were received, especially on the selection of cookies and the helpful, friendly volunteers. Church decorating – All . . . → Read More: December Parish Life meeting recap (December 8th 2015)

There are perils in hiding from unfashionable realities

Burning of the USS Philadelphia

Video footage of students at some of the nation’s most highly regarded universities and colleges brow-beating and obscenely berating their professors and administrators was eerily reminiscent Chairman Mao’s ‘Cultural Revolution’.

From the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s, youthful Red Guards—many of them students—rampaged through China purging schools, universities, government, industry, the military, and the Communist Party . . . → Read More: There are perils in hiding from unfashionable realities