Welcome to St. Stephen's
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 n 1995, St. Stephen’s celebrated its 100th anniversary as a place of active worship and ministry in Port Washington, NY. As we celebrated, we also took time to reflect on the many aspects of our shared life as a Christian community. Through this process, we gained a better understanding of who we are as God’s people.
We created a mission statement to capture the substance of our self-understanding. This statement is a focus for renewal and a guide as we go through our second century of ministry and service on the North Shore of Long Island and in the wider world:
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“St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church is a family sharing God’s love,
transforming Christ’s teachings into action, and rejoicing in the Holy Spirit.”
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When we say we are “a family,” we mean it as our Lord meant it.
Each person is a child of God. He loves us all equally.
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We are united as a family in God by our desire to carry out his will and live by his teachings.
As Jesus said, “Whoever does the will of my Father in Heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”
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We invite you to join us for worship and to become members of our St. Stephen’s Church family.
As the Gospel tells us, when we welcome each other, we welcome Him:
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 “When speaking to his disciples, he took a little child and put it among them; and taking it into his arms, he said to them, ‘Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes not me but the one who sent me.’”
The Rev. W. Kurt von Roeschlaub, S.T.M.,
Rector of St. Stephen’s
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