odds and ends from the gift table and the children’s table. According to Parish Life Treasurer Cindie Baker, the initial sales total at the day’s end was $7,772.23, substantially up on last year's $6,500. A breakdown of receipts shows $5,983.94 taken in cash, $938.75 paid by check, and 2,069.54 charged on credit cards. That’s no small potatoes. The Cookie Walk depends on a high degree of teamwork involving every member and, because so many were involved in its success; it would be most unfair to single

out individuals for special thanks. Indeed, the real heroes are you, the parishioners, who bake the cookies. You are the folks who give the Christmas spirit an especially delicious flavor. FROM THE TREASURER

Help to reduce your taxesPlease remember that a special contribution to St. Stephen's may help to reduce your tax burden for the year 2016. For example, in addition to reducing your taxes by a deduction based on the present value of your securities, Capital Gains Tax can be avoided with a gift of securities that have appreciated particularly greatly over the years. Please contact me if you have questions. And remember, if in doubt, contact your tax advisor. WILLIAM HAWKINS

CHRISTMAS & NEW YEAR

SCHEDULE, Dec. 24th, 2016 to Jan. 1st, 2017

CHRISTMAS EVE Saturday, December 24th

4.00 PM: Children’s Christmas Service & Blessing of the Creche

7.00 PM: Family Candlelight Eucharist 10.30 PM: Choir sings carols followed by

Solemn High Christmas Eucharist

CHRISTMAS DAY Sunday, December 25th

10.00 AM Sung Holy Communion

NEW YEAR’S EVE The Feast of St. Sylvester

11,15 pm, Saturday, December 31st, 2016PATRONAL FESTIVAL

Commemoration of The Feast of St.Stephen & Circumcision, Sunday, January 1st, 2017

8.00 AM: Holy Communion 9.15 AM: Choral Eucharist

11.15 AM: Choral Mattins

St Stephen’s NewsSt Stephen’s Anglican Church · Timonium, Maryland

Volume XXVII, Number 47 A parish in the classical Anglican tradition December 13th, 2016

FROM THE PARISH LIFE COMMITTEE

What a simply super Cookie Walk it was!St Stephen’s Annual Cookie Walk is no teensy weensy neighborhood affair. Over the past quarter of a century, it has evolved into a community-wide institution. Our customers are drawn from all over Baltimore – by no means solely from Timonium and Cockeysville, but from all over Baltimore. It has become so popular, in fact, that phone calls from people enquiring about the event – which always takes place on the first Saturday in December – begin in early September and continue in a constant stream right up to the great day itself. “Will you be holding a Cookie Walk this year?” they ask, “Or must I plan to bake my own cookies? Will you be selling those greens and centerpieces? What about your wreaths? They sold out last year. Will you be selling that wonderful peanut brittle?” Work for Cookie Walk begins in the summer with jams and jellies. Then, throughout the autumn, volunteers make Christmas puddings, peanut brittle and candied nuts and cookie recipes are published in the newsletter. In the week before the sale, volunteers decorated fresh wreaths and make table decorations from donated greens and, hopefully, everyone scoured their houses to contribute gift items for the gift tables. This year’s was our 25th Annual Cookie Walk and it was a tremendous success. In fact, thanks to your wonderful cookies, it was one of our best Cookie Walks ever. It was also more profitable than usual because we dropped our customary – and exceedingly costly – practice of mailing fliers to our immediate neighbors. Instead, we relied on social media (i.e.Facebook), placards and posters to get the word out. This saved us the best part of $1,200. Kudos to Peter Threadgill, our webmaster! In any event, the first customer drove into the car park at just after 8.00 AM – an hour before the scheduled start – and by the time the doors were officially supposed to open there were already crowds of customers doing business. For the next three and a half hours, Reta Richardson and her cookie sales crew were kept constantly busy, serving a seemingly never-ending queue of cookie lovers. Fortunately, we had plenty of jam, jelly, peanut brittle, Christmas greens, table arrangements and wreaths to sell. But, as always, the success of the sale – and the lion’s’ share of our profits – hangs on the wonderful cookies you supply. This year you absolutely excelled yourselves. Amazing though it might seem, by the end of the sale, all that was left, aside from crumbs, were several cookies, a few pots of jams and jelly, four lonely Christmas puddings, four small table centerpieces and

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SUNDAY SERVICES8am: Said Eucharist

9.15am: Choral Eucharist (with Nursery & Church School)11am: Choral Mattins (1st Sunday: Sung Eucharist)

6pm: Choral Evensong (as announced) – evensong.ststeve.com

WEEKDAY SERVICESWednesday, 6pm: Evening PrayerFriday, 12 noon: Healing EucharistSaturday, 5pm: Family Eucharist

Calendar of EventsWEEKLY

Monday, 6.30pm: Bridge Club Tuesday, 7am: Fellowship Breakfast (Nautilus Diner) Thursday, 10am: Knitting Circle Friday, 10.30am: Bible Study

MONTHLY & SPECIAL

Cookie Walk 2016Saturday, December 3rd, 9.00 am - 1.00 pm

EvensongSunday, December 4th, 6.00 pm

Parish LifeTuesday December 13th, 7.00 pm

Ladies Who Lunch(Bluestone Restaurant)

Wednesday December 21st 12.00 pm - 2.00 pm

Christmas Memorial Flowers To make a contribution towards the Church Christmas decorations in honor or memory of a loved one please complete this form and return it with a check (payable to St. Stephen’s Church and marked for Christmas flowers) by Thursday December 22nd. Name of Donor: ____________________________________________________________________ Poinsettias (Red, White or Pink) 6 inches, single (3-5 blooms @ $10 (# of plants................) 6 inches, single, (6-8 blooms) @ $16 (# of plants.................) 7 inches, double, (9-12 blooms) @ $20 (# of plants................) Total # of plants _______________ Total amount enclosed _________________

My gift is IN HONOR, IN MEMORY OF, IN THANKSGIVING FOR (please circle) _______________________________________________________________________________

Parish Prayer ListOur Prayer Chain offers prayer daily for people on the Prayer List as well as the guests of the Joseph Richey Hospice. To add a name to the prayer list, or to the visiting list, or to join the Prayer Chain, ring the parish office on 410 560 677FOR RECOVERY: Hilarie, Edie, Bill, Alan, Terry, Helen, Jim, Linda, John, Judy, Neal, Aida, Stephen, Nathan, Hobie, Betty, Helen, Eunice, Tom, Robert, David, Jan, Susie, Sophia, Bobby, Lee, Pam, Cary, Courtney, Marie, Joanna, Finnie, Kendall, Ian, Gloria, June, John, David, Jorge, Adrian, Llwyd & MichellFOR LIGHT, STRENGTH & GUIDANCE: Stephen, Melba, Vinnie, Doug, Ian, Lisa, Carey, Ned, Cindy, Jacob, Casey & BetON ACTIVE SERVICE: Lt Alex Bursi, Capt. Charles Bursi, Lt Nicholas Clouse, USN; Lt Col. Harry Hughes; Lt Cdr Emma Hawkins, RN; MSGT Michael Holter, USAF; Cpt Fiodor Strikovski, US Army