Holy Week Schedule:
April 19, the Easter Vigil at St. Stephen
• 8:00 PM – “The light of Christ! Thanks be to God!” This most dramatic worship service begins in darkness. With hand-held candles, we enter hearing an ancient chant. In half-light we hear Scripture readings of God’s salvation history, and we return to our baptisms. We end in full light, with the first Holy Communion of Easter – followed by chocolate, strawberries, sparkling cider, and champagne!
April 20, Easter Sunday
• 8:30 AM, 11:00 AM – Festival Easter worship
Easter Potluck Breakfast between services.
Sunday Morning Schedule
8:00 AM Coffee
8:30 AM Worship – Holy Communion (live-streamed)
10:00 AM Faith Formation
10:30 AM Coffee
11:00 AM Worship – Holy Communion
We always encourage you to monitor yourself for symptoms of illness and to worship from home if you are experiencing any. We have masks and hand sanitizer available for use in our building should you require.
For wherever two or three are gathered in my name, I am there among them. ~Matthew 18:20
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About Us
Pastor Jon and our entire community of faith welcomes you to St Stephen!
We are young and old and middle-aged. We are families with babies, retirees, students and faculty and staff at the College of William and Mary, couples and singles. We are school teachers and health care workers. We are parents raising children; people working at Colonial Williamsburg, in the community or some distance away; and people serving in the military. We are people who have grown up in Williamsburg and people who come from all over the country. We are regulars and tourists and visitors.
We are part of the mission and ministry of the wider church through our denomination, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). We believe that community is beautiful and messy and fulfilling and conflicted and…the POINT. God calls us together into community for the sake of one another, our neighbors, and creation. We don’t always get it right, but we trust that when we center the love and grace that Jesus taught, we will get it right more often than not. You are welcome here! We don’t expect perfect, put-together people; we don’t want you to conform to us and our ways; we want you to show up as who you are and to experience the love and grace of God as we have experienced it. And we hope that once you do, you will join us in sharing it with others too. We affirm with St. Paul that in Christ there is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, and we welcome all who are seeking God, regardless of gender identity, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation or religious affiliation.