EIGHT VOICES NEWS: Eight Voices will be the choir for the service of Evensong at St. Stephen’s, 5:30 PM, Sunday, January 29, 2012. In addition to service music and psalms, the choir will sing the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in G by Herbert Howells, and “O thou, the central orb” by Charles Wood. We are very accustomed to Howells’ music at St. Stephen’s and we often sing his hymn which begins “All my hope on God is founded; he doth still my trust renew.” Colin Andrews used to tell us that Howells wrote this music after his son died of polio, and he named the tune Michael for him.

This will be our last performance for a while. Querida and Jeremy are going to take some time off to have a baby girl and settle in with her. We are grateful for the support of the community and St. Stephen’s.

You may watch a video of the Cherub, Junior and Schola Nova choirs Christmas cantata filmed by Chad Gross.

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Playground Equipment: You can see information about our proposed playground on the Property section of this website. Thanks to Kyle Saylors and Adam Livengood for their work on this project.

Annual Parish Meeting was held on the first Sunday of Advent, November 27. The Vestry's new members are: Bob Cagle, Marjorie Fickling, Kim Larson and Kyle Saylors. Also elected as delegates to the Diocesan Convention, February 3-4 in New Bern were Tom Brown, Rebecca Bean and Mike Saylors. Ann Hine and David Jackson were elected as alternates.

Walk to Bethlehem: We have completed our walk a couple weeks early! The goal was 6032 miles and we finished with 6394. Thanks to all who participated and I urge you to continue with your daily activity or exercise. Congratulations to Mary Mills Borden, who won the Omron Pedometer with a distance of 368 miles!

Ten weeks - 6394 Miles!!