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St Stephen’s Anglican Church
St Stephen’s welcomes you to the worship of God through the liturgy of the Anglican Church.
Like the early Church (Acts 2:42), we meet each Sunday to celebrate the Holy Eucharist.
Eucharist means “thanksgiving” and refers to the thanks we give to God for the gift of life, for the continuing presence of the Holy Spirit, and most of all, for the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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St Stephens Anglican Church with Rev Alan Bennett about Creating Community – Part 1
St Stephens Anglican Church with Rev Alan Bennett about Creating Community – Part 2
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Annual Blessing of the Animals
St Francis Blessing of the Animals
All creatures great and small will be welcome at St Stephen’s Blessing of the Animals celebration.
Sunday, August 8th at 2 p.m
Rain or Shine
For more information and to download a poster click here
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The Anglican Church of Canada provides leadership, ministry and mission support in 30 Canadian dioceses with 1,800 congregations in communities in every part of Canada.
The Anglican Church in North America provides oversight for one Canadian Diocese, being the Anglican Network in Canada (ANiC) with 46 congregations mainly in Ontario and British Columbia.
Not all Anglican Churches have web sites. Of the ones that do, not all are ranked by the search engines, often because they are not registered.
Consequently, we may have missed some great websites, as our Top 10 list is based solely on the Alexa Rank as of June 01, 2010. All of our top 10 rank in the top 5 million web sites world wide. If you encounter any Anglican Church web site that belongs on our list, please let us know.
Top 10 Anglican Church Web Sites in Canada
The Rev. Dr. Gary Nicolos
Back in the October 2009 issue of this newspaper, I wrote these words: “It is no longer business as usual in the diocese. No more getting by, barely surviving, hanging on, doing ministry as we have always done it, remaining in our comfort zone, while being impervious to what is happening around us.”
Everything is now up for review. There are no sacred cows, no hands-off issues. Nothing is off limits. No church or organization is immune from scrutiny. No job is guaranteed – not mine, not the Bishop’s – nobody.”
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Dahlia Tubers, Garage Sale Items and Bake Table
This Year We will also serve a Soup Lunch
Saturday April 17, from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Rent Your Own Table for $20.00
DAHLIAS FOR CUT FLOWERS
The two most important characteristics of dahlias grown for cut flowers are the substance and the stems.
“Substance is the quantity and quality of the component materials in the bloom.
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The Anglican Church has ordered its historic Cowichan Station Church closed. John McKinley/file
The Cowichan Station community is fighting back against a decision to close its historic St. Andrew’s Church.
The Anglican Diocese of B.C. voted in favour of disestablishing the more than 100-year-old church over the weekend, with plans to sell or lease the picturesque property.
Parishioners have been encouraged to join one of the remaining Anglican churches in the valley — but Cowichan Station isn’t giving up on St. Andrew’s just yet.
Anglican Diocese team recommends closing several churches around Victoria, Vancouver Island in “transformation”
St. Paul's Anglican Church (click image to enlarge)
Ten Anglican churches in Greater Victoria should close and their parishioners move to other congregations, says a report released yesterday that calls for sweeping changes to deal with declining attendance and aging congregations.
The report was commissioned by the Diocese of British Columbia, which governs Anglican churches on Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands. It also recommends the closing of churches at Crofton, Cowichan Station, South Pender and Saltspring.
Church leaders, priests and parish representatives are expected to vote on the recommendations at a meeting of the Diocesan Synod in March. If approved, the changes could take effect within 18 months.
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From all of us at St Stephen’s
We wish you a Blessed Christmas
For our Christmas card
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At the same time, Advent includes and coincides with our expectant and joyful anticipation of His coming again. “Adventus” in Christian Latin literally translates to the Greek “Parousia”, meaning “coming”, specifically, “Second Coming”.
Both women and men can understand all the emotions coming together in the birth of a baby and the patient waiting that is involved. A promise of joy and love during this incredible time of new-birth brings us closer to our God. We find Him residing in all places and beyond all comprehension in all love and holiness.
St. Stephen’s Country ChristmasSaturday, November 28
11:00 am – 2:00 pm
St. Stephen’s Church Hall
For details, please click here
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This may be a trivial number for a teenager; however it’s quite impressive for a small congregation of computer-challenged worshipers. By comparison, as of today, The Church of England has 1,960 Twitter followers, the Vatican has 586 and The Anglican Church of Canada has 81.
Many of the messages (tweets) are informative, some are cryptic and a few are truly inspirational. To share these with our website visitors, we’ve added a Tweets page where the latest 20 messages will be displayed.
Have a look at Tweets or click on the ‘Tweets’ tab just above the All Are Welcome entry on our Home page.
The list is updated automatically as new tweets are sent to us. You will find that many of the messages have links to further information.
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The Anglican Diocese of B.C. is in “crisis” and planning “drastic action,” to make up for dwindling revenues, declining attendance and increased deficit within its parishes totalling about $1 million.
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On December 6th 2009, the Bishop appointed the Reverend Francis Lynford Smith as our temporary Priest-in-Charge.
