ANNUAL MEETING AND PARISH CELEBRATION
Parish Hall
Sunday, March 5th
Join us as we celebrate all of our successes from 2022
and look at the year ahead with hopefulness and a renewed energy.
All parishioners are encouraged to attend.
We want to see you, hear from you and celebrate you.. in-person and online!
Zoom Link: click here
Passcode: SSM119
Please print out the Annual Report so you can follow along.
We will have copies to distribute at the meeting, but you will be able to view and
download the Annual Report on our website on the "News & Events" tab on Friday.
If you would like to have the report emailed to you, please email Maria at church@ststephensmillburn.org by Friday at 4pm.
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Lent and Holy Week Offerings 2023 | |
We have many options to observe a holy Lent this year, including additional worship services here and with our sister parishes in the Evelyn Underhill Region.
See all Lent and Holy Week offerings here.
Join us in-person, or via Zoom for Adult Formation discussing “Life Transformed: The Way of Love in Lent”, connect online for Noonday prayers, participate in Lent Madness and join us for a Golden Halo themed coffee hour!
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Financial Stewardship for 2023 | |
Thank you to those who have pledged financial support of our ministries in 2023. This is a big help to the Finance Committee in building the budget.
It's not too late to make a pledge or increase your existing pledge. Thanks to an increase this week, we are now at $114,236 in pledges, which is $5,764 shy of our barebones budget and $15,764 shy of what it will take to be live more fully into our identity as the Church on Main Street, where love begets love.
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Happening at St. Stephen's This Week... | |
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Join us on Sunday, March 5th 8:00am and 10:00am for the
Second Sunday in Lent.
ALL are welcome.
Masks are optional.
At Communion, you may receive the wine by sipping from the cup,
or you may choose Communion in one kind only (the bread).
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Annual Meeting and Coffee Hour
in the Parish Hall immediately following our 10:00am service.
Coffee Hour hosts for Sunday:
Our Vestry
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Live-streamed to YouTube, Facebook, and via Zoom. Bulletins are available on the St. Stephen's website. All links can be found at the bottom of the newsletter. Zoom passcode is SSM119.
The Sunday service will also be broadcast on HTTV (Comcast TV 36 and Verizon TV 33) on Tuesday at 6am and 3pm.
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INTERFAITH BIBLE HOUR
We will meet with our friends from Christ Church in Short Hills and Congregation B'nai Jeshurun for Interfaith Bible Hour on the first THURSDAY of the month.
Please feel free to join us on Thursday,
March 2nd at 9:00am even if you haven't before. We will be reading 1 Samuel this year.
Join us in-person at Temple B’nai Jeshurun, or via Zoom here.
Meeting ID: 859 8817 7600
Passcode: Bible
Please email Rev. Paula at rector@ststephensmillburn.org
before 8:00am Thursday morning for the
pdf translation.
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Family Promise Hosting Week Update
Thanks to the wonderful generosity of St. Stephens, today (a day late due to snow yesterday), we delivered meals and groceries to 2 families. In addition to the meals and bags of groceries, each family received $60 in Shop Rite gift cards!!
Warmest thanks to all who cooked, shopped and donated.
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PLEASE CHECK WEEKLY BECAUSE EVENTS MAY BE ADDED OR CHANGED. | |
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MARCH
MAR 2
9am - Interfaith Bible Hour
MAR 5
Second Sunday in Lent
8am - Sunday Worship
10am - Sunday Worship & Annual Meeting
1pm - AA Meeting
MAR 6
7:30pm - MA Meeting
MAR 7
5pm - Life Transformed: Walking the Way of Love in Lent
MAR 12
Third Sunday in Lent
8am - Sunday Worship
10am - Sunday Worship Intergenerational Worship
11:30am - Reading with the Rector
11:30am - Youth Group
1pm - AA Meeting
MAR 13
7:30pm - MA Meeting
MAR 14
5pm - Life Transformed: Walking the Way of Love in Lent
7pm - Monthly Women's Lectionary Discussion
MAR 15
7:30pm - Finance Committee Meeting
MAR 16
7pm - Preschool Committee Meeting
MAR 19
Fourth Sunday in Lent
8am - Sunday Worship
10am - Sunday Worship
11:30am - Vestry Meeting
1pm - AA Meeting
MAR 20
7:30pm - MA Meeting
MAR 21
5pm - Life Transformed: Walking the Way of Love in Lent
MAR 26
Fifth Sunday in Lent
8am - Sunday Worship
10am - Sunday Worship
11:30am - Youth Group
1pm - AA Meeting
MAR 27
7:30pm - MA Meeting
MAR 28
5pm - Life Transformed: Walking the Way of Love in Lent
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APRIL
APR 2
Palm Sunday
8am - Sunday Worship
10am - Sunday Worship
1pm - AA Meeting
APR 3
Monday in Holy Week
7:30pm - MA Meeting
APR 4
Tuesday in Holy Week
5pm - Life Transformed: Walking the Way of Love in Lent
APR 5
Wednesday in Holy Week
7:30pm - Tenebrae Service
APR 6
Maundy Thursday
9am - Interfaith Bible Hour
6:30pm - Maundy Thursday Service
APR 7
Good Friday
12pm - Good Friday Svc
7:30pm - Solemn Collects with the Veneration of the Cross
APR 8
Holy Saturday
10am - Holy Saturday Service
APR 9
Easter Sunday
8am - Sunday Worship
10am - Sunday Worship
11:30am - Reading with the Rector
11:30am - Youth Group
1pm - AA Meeting
APR 10
7:30pm - MA Meeting
APR 11
7pm - Monthly Women's Lectionary Discussion
APR 16
8am - Sunday Worship
10am - Sunday Worship Intergenerational Worship & Zorn Baptism
11am - Golden Halo Coffee Hour
11:30am - Vestry Meeting
1pm - AA Meeting
APR 17
7:30pm - MA Meeting
APR 19
7:30pm - Finance Committee Meeting
APR 20
7pm - Preschool Committee Meeting
APR 23
8am - Sunday Worship
10am - Sunday Worship
11:30am - Youth Group
1pm - AA Meeting
APR 24
7:30pm - MA Meeting
APR 30
Family Promise Hosting - groceries due
8am - Sunday Worship
10am - Sunday Worship
1pm - AA Meeting
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MAY
MAY 1
7:30pm - MA Meeting
MAY 4
9am - Interfaith Bible Hour
MAY 7
8am - Sunday Worship
10am - Sunday Worship
1pm - AA Meeting
MAY 8
7:30pm - MA Meeting
MAY 9
7pm - Monthly Women's Lectionary Discussion
MAY 14
8am - Sunday Worship
10am - Sunday Worship Intergenerational Worship
11:30am - Reading with the Rector
11:30am - Youth Group
1pm - AA Meeting
MAY 15
7:30pm - MA Meeting
MAY 17
7:30pm - Finance Committee Meeting
MAY 18
7pm - Preschool Committee Meeting
MAY 21
8am - Sunday Worship
10am - Sunday Worship
11:30am - Vestry Meeting
1pm - AA Meeting
MAY 22
7:30pm - MA Meeting
MAY 28
8am - Sunday Worship
10am - Sunday Worship
11:30am - Youth Group
1pm - AA Meeting
MAY 29
7:30pm - MA Meeting
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READING WITH THE RECTOR
Sunday, March 12th
11:30am - 1:00pm
in the common room, or via Zoom
We will be discussing:
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father’s servant, caught in the tragic sweep of history, The Kite Runner transports readers to Afghanistan at a tense and crucial moment of change and destruction. A powerful story of friendship, it is also about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and the possibility of redemption; and an exploration of the power of fathers over sons—their love, their sacrifices, their lies.
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COME JOIN THE ST. STEPHEN'S
CHILDREN'S CHOIR
Children from Kindergarten through
6th grade are invited to join the
St. Stephen’s Children’s Choir,
directed by Kim Williams.
In addition to singing occasionally during our 10am worship services, the Children’s Choir will participate in our Easter service on April 9th.
Practices will be held in the Choir Room (just up the few steps from the Parish Hall) from 11:15 to 11:45am. Parents are welcome to sit in on the rehearsal
or simply enjoy a little more time
at Coffee Hour.
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For more information, please email church@ststephensmillburn.org, or speak with Kim Williams (aka Miss Kim) after Sunday services. | | | |
From Bishop Hughes & The Episcopal Church | |
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THE BISHOP'S VLOG
This Lent, try living your faith out loud - 2/22/23
This year we are entering Lent after learning that President Jimmy Carter, at 98 our longest-living former president, has entered hospice care. Bishop Hughes reflects on the example he has set of living one's faith out loud as an unabashed Christian and urges us to consider what this would look like for each of us.
The Voice Online Link - 2/22/23
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In this time of Crisis, there are many resources that can help if you or someone you know needs assistance. Please contact NJ Mental Health Cares for free helpline telephone counseling or assistance. Call 866-202-4357.
TTY: 1-877-294-4356.
E-mail: help@njmentalhealthcares.org
Other resources are:
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
1-800-273-8255
Crisis Text Line, 741741
NJ Hope Line (suicide prevention)
855-654-6735
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A/MA MEETINGS
Weekly AA meetings:
Sunday at 1:00pm
Contact: Rob H. (516) 860-9062
AA meetings are presented in Big Book format.
For more information about Alcohol Anonymous, click here.
Weekly MA meeting:
Monday at 7:30pm
Contact: Max T. (212) 203-2542
Contact: Deana L. (908) 499-8997
MA meetings are presented in a rotating format:
Step - Speaker - Story from Life with Hope - Topic
For more information about Marijuana Anonymous, click here.
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Please keep the following St. Stephen's family
members and friends in your prayers...
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Peggy Thompson
Donna Riggi
The Blanchard Family
The McManus Family
Bernard & Nathan
Lucille B.
Jack Moreno
Jane Rossiter
Mike Losito
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Donna Stadler Hostetler
Ed Roman
Emma Simonich
Inge Bass Mills
Jessica Rana
Cathy Zimmerman
Juliet Tranberg
Lind Hostetler
Mary Ruth Stone
Nancy Landers
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Anne Grenda
Eugene Foley
Evie Larson
Sandra Swan
Ron Gadbois
The Roberson Family
Darla Shaw
Eve Anderson
Adam Moran
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If you would like to add someone to our prayer list, please email us at church@ststephensmillburn.org, or call (973) 376-0688 Ext. 32.
Anyone for whom we are praying will be on our prayer list for six weeks. If prayers are still needed beyond that time period, please let us know. Thank you.
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The Second Sunday in Lent
We are using the new lectionary,
Wilda Gafney's A Women's Lectionary for the Whole Church, Year A.
Our bulletins are available here.
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TITHE.LY
Giving with Tithe.ly is easy with options for recurring donations or one-time use for when you are away or not able to be in church (like all of us now due to COVID restrictions).
You can access Tithe.ly via their website or their app on your smart phone. Be sure to search for the correct account - "St. Stephen's Church Millburn." Once you have accessed the account page with our address, you will be instructed to follow the prompts.
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Due to COVID restrictions, only teachers and staff are allowed to be in the building during school hours. If you need to visit the parish office/building for any reason, please contact us for an appointment. Thank you. | | | |
PARISH OFFICE HOURS
Tuesday - Friday
9:00am to 5:00pm
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Sunday Worship
Meeting ID: 864 1664 1640
Passcode: SSM119
To call in, dial by your location:
+1 646 876 9923 US (New York)
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Adult Formation
Meeting ID: 878 3014 4448
Passcode: SSM119
To call in, dial by your location:
+1 646 876 9923 US (New York)
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Links for Sunday Worship Live-Stream & Social Media | |
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church
119 Main Street, Millburn, NJ 07041
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Church
Parish Administrator, Maria T. Card
973.376.0688, Ext. 32
church@ststephensmillburn.org
Rector, The Rev. Paula J. Toland
973.376.0688, Ext. 21
rector@ststephensmillburn.org
Fax: 973.376.4002
Website: ststephensmillburn.org
Preschool
Director: Nancy Siracusa
Phone: 973.376.3534, Ext. 20
Email: sspsmillburn@gmail.com
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