St. Stephen’s maintains a substantial commitment to working with homeless and other low income people. Cooperation with other parishes helps us to continue to reach beyond ourselves to serve those who are in special need. By reason of its location and the history of its work with the needy, St. Stephen’s continues to be a site to which others, looking for opportunities to exercise a ministry, may come. An important dimension of St. Stephen’s mission is our ability to share with others in outreach work.

“Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of injustice, to undo the thongs of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke? Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked to cover them, and not to hide yourself from your own kin?” (Isaiah 58:6-7)