February 6th – 1:00 PM Purple Bag Tea, held in the Parish Hall
February 12th – 5:00 PM Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper (donation $3) Volunteer male cooks needed
February 13th – Ash Wednesday Services
7:30 AM Imposition of Ashes
11:30 AM Organ Recital
12:00 PM Ecumenical Service (Ashes available in the Chapel immediatly following)
12:30 PM Soup and Sandwich lunch in Parish Hall (suggested donation $4.00 which will benefit the homeless men’s shelter)
6:30 PM Choral Eucharist & Imposition of Ashes
Friday’s in Lent starting on February 15th : Stations of the Cross at 6:00 PM followed by a potluck covered dish meal and movie. This year’s Lenten film series theme is “Humor as Part of Faith: Can we Laugh during Lent?”
February 16th Renewal Assembly VII : register on line at www.diobeth.org
Called to Lead – Called to Listen,
Called to Dream – Chosen to Decide
Charged to Review – Charged to Revise?
February 17th Vestry Meeting
2013 Lenten Organ Recitals
St. Stephen’s continues its fine tradition of presenting a wonderful weekly program during the solemn season of Lent. Each Wednesday, we present a 30-minute organ recital at 11:30 am (featured organists listed below), then an Ecumenical Lenten Service at Noon. A soup-and-sandwich luncheon follows, with a suggested $4 free-will offering, proceeds to benefit local charities. Please join us.
February 2013
Wednesday, 13th
Ash Wednesday,
11:30 am Organ Recital Kevin O’Malia
First United Methodist Church of Germantown Philadelphia, Pa
Noon Ecumenical Lenten Service
Wednesday, 20th
11:30 am Organ Recital Peter Stolzfus-Berton
St. John’s Episcopal Church West Hartford, CT
Noon Ecumenical Lenten Service
Wednesday, 27th
11:30 am Organ Recital Robert Poovey
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church Rochester, NY
Noon Ecumenical Lenten Service
March 2013
Wednesday, 6th
11:30 AM Organ Recital Patty Warwick
Grace Episcopal Church Kingston, Pa
Noon Ecumenical Lenten Service
Wednesday, 13th
11:30 am Organ Recital Michael Kaminski
Brooklyn College and St. Francis College, Brooklyn, NY, St. Francis Xavier Church, Our Lady of Angels Church, Brooklyn, NY
Noon Ecumenical Lenten Service
Wednesday, 20th
11:30 am Organ Recital Thomas Dressler
Noon Ecumenical Lenten Service
Wednesday, 27th
11:30 am Organ Recital Canon Mark Laubach
St. Stephen’s Episcopal Pro-Cathedral Wilkes-Barre, Pa
Noon Ecumenical Lenten Service
March 9th Diocesan Training Day for Ministry
register online at www.diobeth.org
This annual resource day supports parish leadership. Workshops are offered in the areas of vestry Leadership, Parish Finances, Evangelism, Stewardship, Christian Formation and Congregational Development.
Cost of the event is $18.00
10th anniversary
of the Berghaus organ
dedication
Sunday March 10th 4:00 PM
Recital by Ken Cowan (organ)
Tickets to this concert are available for $15.00 and
$10.00 for students/seniors/WVIA members
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