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Service Schedule
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Saturday
5:00 PM - Holy Eucharist and Healing
Sunday
8:00am Rectors Bible Study & Coffee
9:30am Holy Eucharist
Following worship, Fellowship, Coffee and Refreshments
11:00am Adult Formation & Education
Wednesday
12:15pm Mid-Week Eucharist
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Office Hours
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Monday-Thursday
10:00AM-12:00PM & 1:30PM-4:30PM and other times by appointment
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St. Stephen's Vestry
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Christina Priddy
-Rector's Warden
Vic Grace
-People's Warden
Jack Colaric
-Treasurer
Mary Heldenbrand
-Clerk
Vestry
Lyle Skillen
Vicki Bradshaw
Ronnie Sunderman
Bruce Brannan
Kristin McCartor
Paul Basha
Ken Carleno
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Let your voice be heard - Appreciate Inquiry Summit - THIS SATURDAY!
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Saturday, February 17th, 9am to 3pm, in Fredrickson Hall
Lunch and child care will be provided
The Nominating Committee and Vestry are pleased to announce the upcoming Appreciative Inquiry Summit, which is the next step in our rector search. Please come and tell us about your experiences at St. Stephen's. We want to hear your stories - they are the beginning of our search for a rector.
The Rev Canon Megan Traquair and our search consultant, Dr Janet Beason, will be joining us as we take time as a community to come together and look at where we have been, where we are now, and where we want to be.
Everyone is encouraged to attend!
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Count Your Blessings at Home This Week
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As we approach the 1st Sunday of Lent, let us all give thanks for the homes that we enjoy. The 2018 Habitat Lenten Calendar has a "A Prayer for Shelter" on the back. Please then consider the good that Habitat for Humanity does for those who don't yet have such a blessing.
Please pick up you 2018 Habitat Lenten Calendars and their accompanying house banks this weekend. They are a daily reminder to "feed" the house banks during our Lenten fund drive. Each day allows you to count a new blessing and to help others receive such blessings in the future. IOU's work as well as coins, so long as they turn into cash or checks by Easter. Your generosity during Lent will help the Episcopal Coalition of Central Arizona put two new families into good, affordable houses this year. You will also help the coalition support Habitat projects elsewhere in the country and around the world through its annual tithe.
St. Stephen's was wonderfully generous to Habitat for Humanity last year, raising over $3,800. Let's make 2018 even better.
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New Opportunity on the Habitat Spring House
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We have an unplanned need at the house that we are building for Abdullahi Shire and Sudi Warsame. The Episcopal Habitat Coalition of Central Arizona
needs more volunteers for its spring project. Our coalition is working with several other non-profit organizations to build a new house for Abdullahi and Sudi to buy for themselves and their three children. We will meet at 7:15 AM on Saturday, 24 February to block the Shire's House. We should be done by just after lunch. It is always a well-spent morning to help people put sweat equity into a house that they will buy from Habitat.
The house we are building is at 1937 E Don Carlos in Tempe, near McClintock and Apache. Click here for a map.
If you want to help us keep the Shire house on track for its June dedication, please contact Vic Grace at 602.463.8044, or sign up after service this weekend. We can get you a ride if you need one
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Wednesday Book Group
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Wednesday Book Group is beginning a new book - Help, Thanks, Wow Three Essential Prayers by Ann Lamott.
Anne Lamott is known for her perceptive and funny writings about spirituality. Readers of all ages have followed her faith journey through decades of trial and error (sometimes more error than Annie wanted), and in her new book, she has coalesced all she knows about prayer to three essentials: Help, Thanks, and Wow. It is these three prayers-asking for assistance from a higher power, appreciating all that we have and all that is good, and feeling awe at the beauty of the world around us-that can get us through the day and can show us the way forward. In Help, Thanks, Wow, Anne Lamott recounts how she came to these insights, explains what they mean to her and how they have helped, and explores how others have embraced these same ideas. Insightful, funny and honest. Come join us for sharing at 10:30 am Wednesday mornings.
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Lenten Study Series
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Mark your calendars and plan to join us for the Lenten Soup & Study series on Wednesday nights during Lent from 5:45-7:30pm, beginning February 21st. We'll be studying and discussing videos from a series titled - A Celebration of Disciple: The Path to Spiritual Growth by Richard J. Foster.
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