Hello and welcome! We are a community of people who find the openness, fellowship and traditions of the Episcopal Church to be a friendly place to grow in our relationship with God, ourselves, one another and the larger Creation. We offer gatherings that are traditional and contemporary, worshipful and joyous, inwardly focused and outwardly engaged. Although our roots are in the Episcopal Church, we are continuing to emerge as a gathering of people expressing faith in new ways, discovering and expressing the Good News in action. We are made of people who have been Episcopalians all their life, and those who have been Roman Catholic, Baptist, Buddhist, Methodist, Non-denominational, agnostic or… wherever folks have been they are welcome and active here now.

If your journey leads you to seek a deeper connection with God, a community of people who are diverse in belief, background and practice and yet unified in a spirit of love and compassion, and wanting opportunities to make a difference in the lives of others, then we think you will find us an engaging Christian community and your partners in living a full life!

St Stephen’s describes the part of our mission that focuses on worship, prayer and study. The Vine describes the part that is focused on engaging with the wider local community to make positive and lasting contributions to the world around us.

Affiliation with our community is open and requires only a desire to live a life of meaning and service. If you would like to learn more, please contact me or come visit us.

Father Steve Lawler

episcopalians@gmail.com

God, give us grace to accept with serenity
the things that cannot be changed,
Courage to change the things
which should be changed,
and the Wisdom to distinguish
the one from the other.

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