2025
Calling All Kids!
Save the Date! 🎃 Families are invited to the St. Stephen’s Trunk or Treat on Saturday, October 18, 2-4 pm. We’ll have trick 🍫 or treating, a petting zoo 🐑, and lots of holiday fun to share! 🍬 We’re excited to celebrate with you!
2025
Three Things You Need to Know!
Ideas for growing our ministries, urgent needs for Grace Ministry, and prepping for Trunk or Treat! Plus, pics from our Fall Picnic – here.
2025
Latest News
Your Sunday update has details on volunteer opportunities, upcoming events, and ways to get involved. Read the news from St. Stephen’s here.
2025
Three Things You Need to Know!
United Methodist Men grilled dinner for the Youth Group on Sunday!
2025
Schedule Change! 9/14 Worship Service at 10
Join us as we come together for one COMBINED worship service, united as one body on Sunday, September 14 at 10 am. BLAST Sunday School will also meet at 10 am.
After worship, you are invited to the Church Picnic and Ministry Fair as we launch into a new season together! To donate food, or help with set up and clean up, please use the SignUp Genius form here.
2025
Latest News
Your Sunday Update has all the latest on upcoming events, volunteer opportunities, and our new sermon series. Read the news from St. Stephen’s here.
2025
We’re Hiring a Director of Children’s and Youth Ministries
We are looking for a Director of Children’s and Youth Ministries who will be guided by the mission: To build a solid Christian foundation by loving, teaching, and nurturing young people in our community so that we ignite a lifelong passion for living a Christian life.
The Director will work with pastoral staff and a great team of volunteers to plan and implement a vibrant ministry that is welcoming, service-oriented, God-led, and fun for infants to 12th graders and their families.
This job could be a good fit for a lay person or someone working toward a career as a clergy member. To apply, please submit your resume, along with a cover letter to office@ststephensfairfax.org.
Essential Functions:
• Provide a safe, supportive, and nurturing Christian environment at all activities and events.
• Engage and communicate with children, youth, and their families directly to help build relationships with them and with the larger church community.
• Ensure that the St. Stephen’s Safe Sanctuaries Policy is carried out.
• Develop and enact a plan for recruitment of volunteers.
• Work with the Sunday School Coordinator to select and order curriculum materials as well as recruiting and supporting Sunday School teachers.
• Collaborate with pastors, staff, and volunteers while creating and managing teams to plan and implement ministry experiences.
• Demonstrate good organizational skills for planning and coordinating all children’s and youth activities, programs, missions, and events, including seasonal ones—Advent, Lent, and Easter—as well as Vacation Bible School and Summer Camps.
• Prepare and manage the Children’s and Youth Ministries Budget.
• Attend Children and Family Ministry Council meetings and work closely with Council volunteers.
Qualifications:
• A love for children, youth, and families and a commitment to nurturing and strengthening their faith development.
• A personal Christian faith and an openness to serve in the Methodist tradition.
• A degree in a related field or an extensive work history demonstrating leadership and supervisory experience with children or youth.
• Demonstrated leadership in program administration and event planning.
• Strong organizational and project management skills.
• Ability to recruit, train, and manage volunteers and build effective teams.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• An openness to seeking help when needed, and an ability to maintain confidentiality.
• Highly approachable, flexible, collaborative style and relationship builder.
• Ability to develop and manage budgets and financial resources.
Reports to: Pastoral Staff
Status: Full-Time (40 hours/week). Availability on Sundays (morning and evenings) and Tuesdays (11-12 noon) is especially important.
FLSA: Non-Exempt
Pay Rate: $20-$25 per hour, variable based on experience. St. Stephen’s also offers health care coverage, paid vacation and sick leave, and an automatic 4% contribution to retirement savings.
About St. Stephen’s: We are an inclusive, community-minded church in Burke, Virginia. Together, we are excited to welcome the children and youth into a relationship with God and our congregation.
We are looking for a Director of Children’s and Youth Ministries to convey God’s message through storytelling, relationship building, and a deep desire to nurture the unique gifts and personalities of the young people in our congregation. If you feel called to make a difference in this way, then we want to meet you!
2025
Get the Three Things You Need to Know!
Find out what to expect in the next sermon series and how to sign up for Sunday School, Green Groceries, and the Blood Drive – read the Three Things email here.
2025
Welcome Rev. Dr. Chaney
We are excited to welcome our new pastor, the Reverend Dr. William T. Chaney, Jr., to St. Stephen’s! He will be joined by his wife, the Reverend Dr. Michelle Holmes Chaney, and their daughter, Courtney, as they become part of our church family. Reverend Chaney officially begins his ministry with us on July 1 and will preach his first sermon on Sunday, July 6. Following the service, we invite you to a special reception at noon to warmly welcome the Chaney family. Let’s come together in celebration and support as we begin this exciting new chapter! Reverend Chaney’s bio is attached; we encourage you to read more about his inspiring journey.

2025
Harold Mansfield: 23 Years of Service
As some of you know, St. Stephen’s has been blessed for the last 23 years by the dedicated efforts of our Building Maintenance Supervisor, Harold Mansfield. Harold started working here just days before we began constructing the main sanctuary, and has given his heart and soul to this building ever since. He is retiring on March 31. To help celebrate, we are asking people to sign a photo mat in the Welcome Center today and the rest of the month. We will present a framed photo to him, along with some other gifts, later in the month. We ask for your prayers upon Harold in his next chapter.