St. Stephen's Episcopal Church

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Monett, MO is a town of over 8,000 people and was established as a railroad town in the 1800's. There are about 2,200 students in the Monett R-1 school district, on six campuses, with some 40 per-cent of students other than Caucasian. 40% of students are on free/reduced breakfast and lunch with week-end food backpacks sent home with 25% of the students. Monett has several industries, a healthy downtown, over 40 churches, a couple of highway strip malls, four banks, Wal-Mart, Lowes, several fast food eateries, Drury College campus, night classes offered at Scott Tech as well as 14 other sending schools coming to Scott Tech for high school classes. There are several small businesses, a nice library, and three parochial schools serving about 175 students, pre-k through high school. There are three licensed day care centers (one on the Elementary School for school employees) plus several in home day care providers. We have two lovely parks with ball fields and tennis courts, a state of the art YMCA with indoor and outdoor pools, and a busy Chamber of Commerce. It's a great place to live and work!

Worship times

Sunday

Sunday mornings

11:00 am

English

We worship in a small, beautiful building, built in 1894, that holds about 100 people. We have a center aisle leading up two steps to the altar. There is a piano and baptismal font in the north transept and an organ and votive candle stand in the south transept. We follow the Rite II Eucharist liturgy most Sundays. We have a small choir and a congregation that enjoys singing service music composed by our now deceased and much missed choir director. We are blessed to have a pianist who is not an Episcopalian but she adds lovely praise music before the service begins. Our priest faces the congregation and Holy Communion is served from the transept. All ages are welcome and participate in the worship service.

Volunteer opportunities

Ongoing commitment opportunities

Help with events at Scott Regional Technical Center; join with three other local churches to provide Vacation Bible School every July: Chili and Church in the park every October, Blessing of the animals every October, ice cream social open to the public every 4th of July; serve meals to local police, ambulance, fire, and city personnel; Lay Eucharistic Visitor to local nursing home serving Holy Communion to resident every other week; church choir;