A tremendous effort and a stupendous success!

This year’s Cookie Walk was a stupendous success. Our friends in the neighborhood—new and old—turned out in droves. By the end of the day, with not a cookie left on the tables, the Cookie Walk team had taken in close on $7,700. That’s no small potatoes! What’s more, that figure does not include post–Cookie Walk . . . → Read More: A tremendous effort and a stupendous success!

This Week’s Newsletter

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Ferrets and the Fate of My Large White Rabbit

This article was originally published in St. Stephen’s News in December of 2010.

“What happened to the White Rabbit?” asked Wiley Hawks, intrigued by the ultimate fate of the large and handsome rabbit I had rescued from a neighbor’s Christmas dinner table. His interest had been sparked by a finely crafted antique English ferret cage . . . → Read More: Ferrets and the Fate of My Large White Rabbit

There’s Nothing “Bah! Humbug!” about Santa

This article was originally published in St. Stephen’s News in December of 2010.

The Salvation Army’s Santas began ringing their bells three or four weeks ago, heralding not only the Saviors birth, but the start of the Christmas shopping season. And to be sure, recession or no recession, the malls have been as crowded as . . . → Read More: There’s Nothing “Bah! Humbug!” about Santa

All the News That’s Fit to Print … Again

Being firmly perched upon my brass pedestal at St Stephen’s, I’ve had many years of sermons and newsletter articles to ponder. This Advent season we’ll be reprising some articles, poems, and stories from years past, and reliving some of the timeless bits of wit and wisdom that have graced this space.

The two articles we’re . . . → Read More: All the News That’s Fit to Print … Again

This Week’s Newsletter

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A Final Cookie Recipe

It’s been rumored that there exists in this world only one Christmas Fruit Cake and it’s gifted from house to house every year but never eaten. This recipe would never share the same fate. Make these delicious cookies and we guarantee they will be eaten.

Fruit Cake Cookies Ingredients

1 Cup Butter 2 Cups Sugar . . . → Read More: A Final Cookie Recipe

Help Wanted. No Experience Necessary.

Over 5,000 homes in the area surrounding St Stephen’s are receiving invitations to our 22nd Annual Cookie Walk in their mailboxes this week. Added to our faithful following from years past, we hope to attract many more of our local neighbors to kick off the Christmas season at St Stephen’s.

The St . . . → Read More: Help Wanted. No Experience Necessary.

Tick Tock, Tick Tock, …

A few parishioners were a bit taken aback on Sunday to see the Knitting Circle’s Silent Auction items lining the hallway outside the Parish Hall. “Already??” “So soon??”

Cookies, jams, jellies, greens, small gifts—all available at St Stephen’s Cookie Walk!

Their surprise is not really all that surprising to those of us who . . . → Read More: Tick Tock, Tick Tock, …

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