Let’s just agree that our sound system is a frustration for many of us! Some can’t hear the sermon or other parts of the service. On my side, it’s disheartening to hear that someone didn’t hear the entire service and then find out that it was something simple that could’ve been fixed with little …
The Rector's Blog
Some Thoughts about Giving…and Thanksgiving
This coming Sunday (November 24) has been designated as the Sunday for the ingathering of pledges. This is simply a deadline (because so many of us need one) to turn in our financial commitments to the church. I also like to gather those pledges in on a particular Sunday to include them in the …
St. Stephen’s and St. Stephen
There’s a small brown notebook, more like a composition book with a grocery-sack-paper cover, that usually lives in the church safe deposit box for safekeeping. Its handwritten cover says: Register St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church Commencing May 7th 1840 Including Births, Marriages And Burials, …
