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Sunday School and Youth Group News
Blessing of the Caps and Passion Play Plans
There is
Sunday School this
Sunday, March 26th.
(sorry for fuzzy photo :))
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Caps for Kids
As of today we have collected 59 "Caps for Kids."
Thanks so much for your donations!!!!
The caps will be blessed by Father Gary at the 10 am service this Sunday.
THERE IS STILL TIME TO DONATE. Baskets are located at both entrances of the church.
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The Passion:
The Youth and
Sunday
School will be rehearsing the Passion in the church during coffee hour this Sunday from
11:30-12:30
. Rehearsal will also be
Sunday, April 2nd
at the same time. The Passion play will be on Palm
Sunday, April 9th
, during the
10 AM
service. If interested in a part, please contact Rhonda.
UPCOMING IMPORTANT DATES FOR APRIL--
PLEASE MARK YOUR CALENDAR
Friday night
April 7th, The
Sunday School kids are welcome to come and help bake Hot Cross Buns and cookies in the parish hall from
5PM-6:30PM.
There will be pizza for dinner.
Sunday, April 23rd:
Helen's Walk in Sands Point. Please contact
Rhonda to register.
Have a great week!
Rhonda
Children and Youth Group Minister
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Announcements
Presentation of Bishop's Medal of Distinguished Parochial Service to
Donna Blankman and
Alan Dinn - This SUNDAY March 26th, during 10am Service.
Episcopal Ministries of LI 2017 Annual Appeal is underway!
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The Episcopal Ministries of LI's mission is to respond to Christ's call to care for our neighbors as if directly for Christ, through establishing, nurturing and funding parish-based services and community partnerships which affirm the dignity of all people.
Volunteers for Food Drive, Port Washington Stop & Shop, Saturday, April 8th:
Island Harvest, a fantastic local food bank that serves low-income families in Nassau and Suffolk, is having a food drive at Stop & Shops around LI, including in Port. When: Saturday, April 8th, 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (broken into two 4-hour shifts). Needs: Shift Captain to be at the drive and check in with Island Harvest a few times during the shift to convey amount of food collected. Need 2-3 volunteers to staff the tables. Volunteers can include kids age 7+! For more info: contact Jordan Buffa, Food Drive Coordinator at 631.873.4775 x 243 or Jordan@islandharvest.org.
Carillon installation is underway!
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St. Stephen's has a brand new carillon, which is being installed by Neill Carillon Service. Many thanks to Elisa Delaney and Alan Dinn for their efforts on this project, and to Justin Newby, for his work in securing a $15,000 grant from the Anglican Foundation to make this possible.
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Help Team LI #103 celebrate Grace Church of Massapequa's New Food Pantry Ministry!
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They are collecting non-perishable, easy to prepare food items at each of their team meetings and ask all outside communities to match their donation by donating 4 or more of the above items per person. Drop off is at Montfort Chapel, 26 S Saxon Ave in Bay Shore, on Saturday April 1st (Serenade @ 8pm) and Sunday, April 2nd (Closing @ 4pm).
See flyer here.
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"Open Mic Lent"- Bring your questions and/or comments about religion, faith and living. We will break bread together, discuss, share and pray.
Lenten Soup and Discussion schedule:
Where: St Cecilia Room
When: 6:00
soup;
7:00
discussion; see dates below
What: A vegetarian soup and non-vegetarian will be offered on all evenings. Fresh bread and a delicious salad will be offered as well. (The salad is Chris Cutting's famous greens with Craisins, walnuts, oranges with raspberry dressing.) This will be followed by our "open mic" discussion and prayer.
Ellen Shields
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Serving March 26th at 10 am:
Eucharistic Ministers:
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Melissa Murphy & Ellen Shields
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| Lectors: |
Elisa Delaney & Lizz Predmore
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| Acolytes: |
Carolyn Peiser, Lela Pines & Lian Pines |
| Altar Guild: |
Lori Murphy, Maureen Benfield, Carol Wright & Susan B. Miller
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| Coffee Hour: |
Roopali Gupta & Gareth John
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| Counters Schedule: |
Tish Davis & Rob Knapp
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Parish Calendar
Wednesday, March 29th:
Noon Healing Service.
Wednesday, March 29th, 6pm-8pm:
Lenten Soup with discussion in St. Cecilia Room.
Wednesday, April 5th:
Noon Healing Service.
Wednesday, April 5th, 6pm-8pm:
Lenten Soup with discussion in St. Cecilia Room.
Friday, April 7th, 5pm-6:15pm:
Sunday School/Youth Group Baking Hot Cross Buns, in Parish Hall. There will be pizza for dinner.
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Easter is coming!
Please see Father Gary's Easter Letter here.
Holy Week and Easter schedule:
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Ministry Schedule
Find out if you're on the schedule
here.
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Coffee Hour
Thanks to our Coffee Hour volunteers!
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For Our Prayers
Dick & Jean, Virginia, Peter, Bob, Ann, Gerry, Carol, Jo, Tom, Gerry, Darlene, Jeanne, Steve & Debbie, Valerie, Nancy, Frank, Sue, Nina, Karen, Ian, Richard, Donna V., Lisa F., Kitty, Justin, Tony, Mary M., Ross, Sue, Hank, Charles, June, William, Carolyn, Elizabeth, Erica, Ann Alletta, Don, Sally & Ed, John P., Officer Mike and Jamie & Jennifer.
For the recently departed: We are sorry to inform the parish of the passing of Donna Blankman's beloved husband,
Howard Blankman. There is a tribute to his life on the cover page of this week's Port News, and also in Newsday, here. Our prayers are with Donna and the family.
To have someone entered onto our Prayer List please send an e-mail with the person's name & the requester's name to: office@ststephenspw.org. Your prayer request will be included for 4 weeks - please submit another request if you wish to have prayers continue after this time.
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