Join us on Sunday, April 26rd at 8:00am & 10:00am for

The Fourth Sunday of Easter.

ALL are welcome.

At Communion, you may receive the wine by sipping from the cup, reverently touching the base of the chalice, or you may choose Communion in one kind only

(the bread).

ST. STEPHEN'S GARDENING

& CAMPUS CLEANUP DAY

Saturday, May 13th

8:30am - 2:30pm

Our plans to double the size of our Good News Garden are underway.

Join us on May 13th and show your love for this lovely piece of God's creation.

Bring a pair of gardening gloves, a shovel, a rake, or just yourself, your family and friends! Come for the day, or just an hour or two. We'll be beautifying the campus, doing a little building, filling the beds with soil, and spreading mulch.

Cold drinks and lunch provided for all volunteers.

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Planting Day to be announced soon.

Don't forget to sign up and let us know which plants you will donate and how many. We're going with square foot and companion gardening again this year to get the most we can out of the space.

We'd like all of the plant donations

by Sunday, May 14th.

SignUp to donate plants today!

READING WITH THE RECTOR

Sunday, April 30th

11:30am - 1:00pm

in the common room, or via Zoom

We will be discussing:

Animal Farm

by George Orwell

George Orwell's timeless and timely allegorical novel—a scathing satire on a downtrodden society’s blind march towards totalitarianism.

FAMILY PROMISE HOSTING

April 30, 2023

We are continuing our hospitality ministry with Family Promise and will be hosting the week of April 30th. 

We will be "hosting" 3 families. As you may recall from our February hosting, the families stay in long-term stay hotels.  We provide one meal for each family along with some grocery items. We will deliver our meals and the grocery donations to the Family Promise office in Montclair on Tuesday morning May 2nd.

All grocery donations can be dropped off at either Church service on April 30th. If you are unable to deliver items to Church, please contact Linda Soughan to make other arrangements at lindasoughan@comcast.net. For meal donations, Linda will coordinate pick up. As always, Shop Rite gift cards are a welcome addition! Also, as you will note on the sign up, in addition to the grocery items, there is a request for one queen size set of sheets.

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).

We are using Sign Up Genius to record sign-ups.  

The link is here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F0B4DAAAD2CA1FC1-family1

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.”

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 website.