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20 April 2014
  
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church
  Easter Sunday Tidings
Growing Ministry, Community and Impact!
Exploring our relationship with God, earth and one another ~  Earth & Altar
 
 Services
  
Inside St. Stephen's
Sunday
Services
 
8:00am
Contemplative Eucharist

 

10:00am 
Festive 
Choral Eucharist
 
9:45am
Sunday School
  
9:30-11:30am - Childcare
w/Bebe Hansia
 
  
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This Sunday -
20 April
Easter Sunday
Team11:
chaired by
Koko Peters
  
Next Sunday - 27 April
Team  12:
chaired by
Johnna Coats-Garman
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Easter Services
Easter Bells & Noisemakers Easter Bells
Easter Vigil

Remember to bring your noisemakers and bells to the Easter Vigil at 6pm to celebrate the great Alleluias and moment of Resurrection.

Easter Vigil:  The St. Stephen's Social Committee will host a simple champagne and strawberries reception in Kimball Hall following the Easter Vigil on Saturday, April 19th.  Please contact Janice Dalzell-Piper if you would like to donate some champagne or help with set-up, serving, or clean-up. Janice's email click
This Sunday 
All children and youth in church
Easter Bells & Noisemakers Easter Bells
Easter Day 
Information 

Remember to bring your noisemakers and bells to celebrate the great Alleluias and moment of Resurrection, on Easter Day, at the 10am service.  Also, if you are able to do so, please consider walking or carpooling to church on Easter, to reserve parking for our guests.

Easter Day:  Following the 10am service there will be  Easter Bonnet
Easter Bonnet making for adults & youth (one per family).  Come and get creative with Easter chicks, butterflies, eggs & flowers!  Parade your masterpiece.  First, Second and Third place prizes will be awarded.  
Easter Egg Hunt Dye some eggs!
Easter Day
Following the 10am service

All children are invited to hunt for eggs immediately after church in and around the Parish Hall, and also downstairs in the classrooms.  They should bring their own Easter basket or bag.
Directory Pictures 
This Sunday

 

It is time for a new St. Stephen's Directory.  If you have never had your picture in the directory or would like to have a new picture taken please plan to have yours taken this Sunday by Bob McCaskill (left), Chris Simpson Brent (middle) or Philip Norris (right). They will be in the courtyard or Kimball Hall (if it is raining).  Look for one of these three and make sure you are in the next edition of the St. Stephen's Directory.
 
Also, have you alerted St. Stephen's to any address, phone or email changes in the last year? [email protected]
 
Bob McCaskill Chris Simpson Brent
Upcoming
Adult Education: Mere ChristianityMere Christianity
April 27 & May 4
11:15am

 

Join Karl Belgum for another book discussion.  Please consider reading it and joining the group.  This one will be Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis.  It was discussed a little at the last Bonhoeffer session, and will provide a nice comparison since Lewis was a contemporary of Bonhoeffer and was active during the same dramatic times as when the Bonhoeffer story took place. The book had its origins in a series of radio broadcasts during the war, and while those are about Christianity, not the war per se, one can't help considering that Lewis was helping the British locate themselves, morally, as a Christian people, in a time of war.  It is short, interesting and written in a lively and engaging style.
Last Chance:
Nightwatch for Youth
Grace Cathedral
Friday & Saturday
April 25 & 26
7:30pm-10am

 

All middle school students (6th-8th grades) can take part in a special overnight of fun, activity, and reflection at Grace Cathedral.  The theme this year is Grow Up in Every Way, and participants will be exploring transformation and growth through scripture, art, music, and games.  Overnights are always fun!
 
The fun begins at 7:30pm on Friday, April 25 and continues through 10am the next day at 1100 California St., San Francisco.
 
Cost is $15 (scholarships are available)  
Contact for information: [email protected]
 
Registration: Click to register
Cinco de Mayo Party salsa dance
Southwest Mission Trip Fundraiser
Monday
May 5
5:30-8pm

 

Time to party!  All are invited to attend the Cinco De Mayo Southwest Fundraiser that will help with the cost of this year's June Youth Mission Trip to Taos, New Mexico, where the youth will assist in building homes.
 
Come and enjoy food from the Southwest, margaritas (alcoholic & virgin) and learn to salsa in Kimball Hall.
 
Cost: $22 per person, or $50 per family will help the Youth raise the required $3,000 for the trip.  If 100 of you can come to enjoy yourselves we will be close to the goal!
 
Please RSVP to Sam: [email protected]
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Southern Marin Hot Lunch Coalition: 
Thursday, April 24th.  Contribute food and/or help serve: [email protected]
 
Siempre Unidos Collection ~ HIV/AIDS Ministry, Honduras:  Thank you to everyone who brought their mite boxes.  We have gathered about $800, with money still coming in.  If you were not able to donate on Palm Sunday, please bring monies to the church in the next week or two.
Summer Camp VBS13
Vacation Bible School
"Earth Child in God's Creation"
June 23-27
9am-Noon

 

VBS is our "old-fashioned childhood" camp: peaceful atmosphere, simple childhood play.  Teaching our kids to be "earth children" through planting, play with water and natural materials, arts and crafts, and Bible stories about the Creation. Pre-K to 5th grade campers $120, Middle and High School Counselors.
 
 
Summer CampCCdrums13
"Children: Guardians of the Earth"
Camp Create
July 21-25
9am-3pm

 

St. Stephen's multi-cultural arts camp is a unique jewel.  We bring together Causasian, Latino, African American, Japanese, and Middle-Eastern children for singing, drumming, dancing, painting, drawing and multi-media classes with charismatic arts educators.  It's not a camp, it's a family" as one camper observed.  2nd-5th grade campers, High School counselors.
 
 
 
Summer Music Make a joyful noise

 

John Hirten invites parishioners to lend their talents over the summer, even for just one Sunday.  If you play (or have played) an instrument (any instrument at even the most basic level), or if you sing, please let John know, even if you have limited experience!  
 
John will schedule you for one Sunday in the summer, and meet with you several weeks in advance.  You will learn a simple melody that John writes for you based on your level that will require minimal practice time, if any.  Then you and he will meet at 9:15am on the Sunday that you would perform and you and he will play together.  Again, even limited experience is fine!  Please talk to John after the service or call him at 415.435.4501 x17.
St. Stephen's Clean-Up Day  St. Stephen's Episcopal Church
Thank You!

 

The church and grounds are looking great thanks to Dick Grey and all of his crew.  Thanks everyone who participated in renewing St. Stephen's and the grounds on this fun day.
Earth and Altar
An active exploration of our relationships with God, earth and one another.
CA bird
Act: Buy a bird book complete with a CD of bird calls and learn to ldentify the birds that are singing outside your window.
 
Pray: Lord, the air smells good today, straight from the mysteries within the garden of God.  The trees in their prayer, the birds in praise, 
the first blue violets, kneeling. ~ Rumi
 
 
"Love the earth just as much as God does..."
 - Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu

Save These Dates!

St. Stephen's On the Gro Calendar:

 

APRIL

17 - Maundy Thursday - 7pm

18 - Good Friday Service & Organ Music Meditation - noon

19 - Easter Vigil & baptisms - 6pm

20 - EASTER DAY - 8 & 10am services

       Choir at both services/Egg Hunt after the 10am

25 - Nightwatch for Middle School - Fri-Sat - 7:30pm-10am

27 - Adult Ed,. Mere Christianity I - 11:15am

 

May

 4 - Adult Ed,. Mere Christianity II - 11:15am

 4 - EvenSpark - 5pm

 5 - Cinco de Mayo Dinner & Salsa Dance - 5:30pm

10 - Planting St. Stephen's Garden - 9am

11 - Mother's Day & Pancake Breakfast (Dad's cook)

15 - New Member's Cocktail Party - 6pm

18 - Legacy Sunday with Richard Schaper - 8 & 10am

18 - Blessing of the Fleet - 1pm

25 - Rogation sunday Celebrating the Garden

 

Ongoing:

1st Monday: The Outdoor Club Hike
2nd/4th Mondays: Women's Knitting - 10:30am
Thursdays:  Contemplative Prayer - 8:15am
Thursdays: 10am-1 or 1-4pm - Volunteers at the Thrift Shop
Thursday: Choir Practice - 7:30pm
2nd Thursday of the Month: Homeward Bound Meals
4th Thursday of the Month: Westminster Hot Lunch
4th Sunday of the Month: PAUL's Letters & Potluck - 5:30pm
Sundays: Children's Music with John after the 10am service
 
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St. Stephen's Episcopal Church

3 Bay View Avenue

PO Box 97

Belvedere, CA 94920

415.435.4501