Outreach at St. Stephen’s
For a small parish, we have been very active in community outreach programs. We have marched for several years in the CROP Walk sponsored by Church World Service to raise money for the hungry in Connecticut and around the world. We have supported the Summer Day Camp program at the Church of the Good Shepherd with donations of money and food. We have held our own food drives as well as making weekly contributions of food for the Bloomfield Food Bank. We have raised money to send our friends from the Brown Street Group Home to a special weekend camp. In the future, we hope to begin a tutorial program for the children of Bloomfield who need help with math. Later we hope to expand the program to include other areas of help. In addition to making contributions of our gifts and time, we have participated for several years in the March for Jesus in Hartford and have marched as a church group in the Bloomfield Memorial Day Parade.
We have also sponsored many of our children with Camp Washington scholarships. Our recent campers are featured in our September 2000 newsletter.
Listed below are other churches in the surrounding area that are part of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut:
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Bloomfield
Old Saint Andrew’s, North Bloomfield