Join us on Sunday, February 26th 8:00am and 10:00am for the

First 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).

FAMILY PROMISE HOSTING 2023

We are continuing our hospitality ministry with Family Promise in 2023.

We will be "hosting" 2 families for the week of February 26th. As you may recall from last year, the families stay in long-term stay hotels.  We provide a meal for each family along with some grocery items. For our first hosting, we will deliver our meals and the grocery donations to the Family Promise office in Montclair on Tuesday morning February 28th.

All grocery donations can be dropped off at Church service on February 26th. If you are unable to deliver items to Church, please contact Linda Soughan at lindasoughan@comcast.net to make other arrangements. For meal donations, Linda will coordinate pick up. As always, Shop Rite gift cards are always a welcome addition!

For those volunteering to provide meals, Family Promise has asked that the meals be stored in square plastic containers marked with the Family number (indicated on the sign up sheet).

There are a few grocery items still needed. We are using Sign Up Genius to record all sign-ups/donations. Please sign up here:

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F0B4DAAAD2CA1FC1-family

If you have any questions, please email Linda.

Thanks so much for volunteering!!

"For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me.”

We have many options to observe a holy Lent, including additional worship services here and with our sister parishes in the Evelyn Underhill Region. Join us in-person, or via Zoom for Adult Formation discussing “Life Transformed: The Way of Love in Lent”, participate in Lent Madness and join us for a Golden Halo themed coffee hour!

SEASONAL WORSHIP SERVICES

Ash Wednesday

6:30 to 8:30 am - Ashes to Go at the Millburn Train Station

12:00 noon - Holy Eucharist with Imposition of Ashes

7:30 pm - Holy Eucharist with Imposition of Ashes

Palm Sunday

8:00 am - Spoken Holy Eucharist

10:00 am - Holy Eucharist with Procession of the Palms

Wednesday in Holy Week

7:30 pm - Tenebrae

Maundy Thursday

6:30 pm - Holy Eucharist and Agape Supper

Please email Maria at church@ststephensmillburn.org so that we can plan food.

Good Friday

12:00 noon - Contemplative Prayer Service

7:30 pm - Solemn Collects with Veneration of the Cross

Holy Saturday

10:00 am to noon - Liturgy of Holy Saturday and Quiet Day

Please email Maria at church@ststephensmillburn.org so that we can plan supplies.

ADULT FORMATION

“Life Transformed: The Way of Love in Lent”

Using the curriculum available from The Episcopal Church, we will journey through Lent with Jesus.



Tuesdays: 2/21, 2/28, 3/7, 3/14, 3/21, 3/28, 4/4

5:00-6:30 pm

You are invited to join us in person or via Zoom:

Meeting ID: 878 3014 4448

Passcode: SSM119

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A one day journey with Jesus using the “Life Transformed: The Way of Love

in Lent” curriculum. We will break for Noonday Prayer and lunch at 12:00.

Saturday, 2/25 at 9:00 am - 3:30 pm

Please email Maria at church@ststephensmillburn.org to RSVP.

LENT MADNESS



The world quivers in anticipation each year for the coming of Lent Madness. The Madness pits saints against each other for the coveted Golden Halo. Each day during Lent, while you read and learn about various saints, you (and thousands of other people) get to vote for your favorite in a head-to-head match-up.

The Evelyn Underhill Region will be participating in Lent Madness this year.

Our Lent Madness poster will be pinned up in the Narthex. Play along and bring your brackets to a festive Golden Halo coffee hour on Sunday, April 16. We will have games, prizes and a fun-themed coffee hour.

A bracket printout will be available in church on Sunday, or you may download the bracket here.

Learn more about Lent Madness at www.lentmadness.org.

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.

The password is SSM119.

The meeting ID is 865 4375 6895.

Please email Rev. Paula at rector@ststephensmillburn.org

before 8:00am Friday morning for the

pdf translation.

ANNUAL MEETING

Sunday, March 5th

10am Sunday Worship

11am Annual Meeting

All annual reports are due on Friday, 2/24.

Please email the reports to church@ststephensmillburn.org.

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.

ONLINE NOONDAY PRAYERS

Join our siblings in Christ from our Regional Ministry Network as we mark each of the weekdays in Lent together with a time of communal prayer. This brief service will be led by clergy and laity from across the region. As a part of our regional service, each day we will highlight the Lent Madness saints for that day.

Zoom information:

Meeting ID: 874 7000 5903

Password: CCSH

North Porch Women & Infants' Centers provides emergency aid, in the form of baby supplies, to mothers and infants in northern New Jersey, to help them stabilize and improve the quality of their lives.

Our collection bin is located outside the education building doors year-round. Donations can be dropped off at any time. Items of urgent need are:

• Enfamil 12.5 oz powdered baby formula and soy formula
• Diapers especially Large size diapers - 4, 5, 6 and Pull-ups of all sizes
• Baby wipes
• Jars of baby food all ages-fruit, veggie and 1st foods

If you would like to make a monetary donation to North Porch, please click here.

TRINITY RETREAT CENTER

Trinity Retreat Center, located in the Northeast in West Cornwall, CT, offers a place of spirituality and gracious, authentic hospitality—where you can slow down, connect deeply with nature, experience the rhythm of a community, enjoy farm-to-table meals, discern direction for your life, and go home ready to make an even greater impact on the world.

Trinity Retreat Center is an Episcopal mission of Trinity Church Wall Street and is open to everyone, regardless of denomination or faith.

For more information, go to the Trinity Retreat Center's Facebook page or click here.