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Welcome to St. Mark Lutheran Church
St Mark is holding in-person worship services on Sunday mornings at 10:00am! Face coverings are no longer required. However, you are very welcome to wear a face covering if this is your preference.
For those who are not yet comfortable attending worship in person, Sunday morning services are Streaming Live on YouTube and recorded for later viewing with links published here on our website.
Advent and Christmas Worship Services
Advent of Love – Vespers Service: Wednesdays, December 4, 11, & 18 at 6:30pm
Christmas Eve – Family Candlelight – Communion Service: Tuesday, December 24 at 5:00pm
Christmas Eve – Choral Candlelight – Communion Service: Tuesday, December 24 at 10:00pm
Christmas – Lessons and Carols – Communion Service: Sunday, December 29 at 10:00am
Newest Posts
- 1 Dec 2024
https://youtube.com/live/1qy15zFxIRU Welcome to today’s service. Be the first light for those who are searching for it! If you would like to participate during communion, please have wine and bread ready to do so.
- 25 Nov 2024
Our Music Director Terry Shaw, Trudy Hoy, and Pastor Beth-Utto Galarneau have written a service for St. Mark to use during the Advent season, “The Advent of Love.” With Terry’s music, Terry’s and Trudy’s words, and Pastor Beth’s liturgy and prayers, we anticipate celebrating the Advent season with this gift, offered in love! Worship with our new Advent Vespers service takes place on Wednesdays, December 4, 11, and 18 at 6:30pm in the Parish Hall. A potluck supper precedes the service at 5:45pm. The vespers service begins with, “Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord,” as Isaiah and John the Baptist declared. Terry added music to their words. Trudy and Terry added words to the verses. “Make straight our crooked pathways, forgive our faltering steps. Make the rough ground level.” And what can our feet do then? Dance! “Our feet will join in the dance!” What other parts of us can join in the dance? Of course, our voices, our hearts, our very lives join in the dance. The story of Jesus, God’s coming into the world, and God bringing us into this story of love is too much to understand, too much to comprehend. Yet God calls to us to be a part of this love. The phrase, “This is a story beyond all stories, beyond all that we understand” is the opening line and becomes a familiar phrase in the song “Advent of Love.” “Advent of Love” remembers the ancient voices proclaiming the birth of a child and the angel voices that sang the night of Jesus’ birth. They sang “Glory to God in the highest.” The next verse includes us. “We still long to hear the story.” Yet it’s difficult because of the burdens of life, “our minds are weary, and our hearts are heavy.” But we hear the angels’ voices singing this night, their song from above. “And they sing Glory to God in the highest.” The third verse brings us into the advent of love. “We long to live the story, the story of love.” We experience the love, we share love, love becomes us. And with great awe and reverence we too sing with the angels, “Glory to God in the highest and peace to all people on earth.” “Love Is” our response to this ongoing advent of God in our lives. Think of all the examples of what love is. This song only highlights a few. Add your examples as you sing this song on your way through God’s world, since “We are God’s hands, we are God’s feet, we are Love’s living heartbeat.” There will be time before the service for the congregation to offer prayers written on a piece of paper. These prayers will be gathered and offered up silently during the service. The Lord’s Prayer is sung responsively by the leaders and the congregation. Prayers and spoken messages lead us through to the end when “Glory to God” and “Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord” are again sung with joy and excitement by all.
- 24 Nov 2024
Welcome to today’s service. If you would like to participate during communion, please have wine and bread ready to do so. https://youtube.com/live/NRzrwRH4yVs
- 17 Nov 2024
Welcome to today’s service. Be the change you wish to see in the world. If you would like to participate during communion, please have wine and bread ready to do so. https://youtube.com/live/_ulCdj2RnRk
- 10 Nov 2024
Welcome to today’s service. One penny is equal to how you see it in your hand! If you would like to participate during communion, please have wine and bread ready to do so. https://youtube.com/live/YxOw4bJuRAc
- 3 Nov 2024
Welcome to today’s service. When the Saints come marching in, let them in! If you would like to participate during communion, please have wine and bread ready to do so. https://youtube.com/live/eiN438bH6nE
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- Twenty-fifth anniversary of the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification October 31, 2024"I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing." —John 15:5Dear siblings in Christ,Twenty-five years ago today, Catholic and Lutheran representatives gathered in Augsburg, Germany, to sign the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification (JDDJ), […]
- ELCA Receives Lilly Endowment Grant for Children’s Ministry October 30, 2024CHICAGO — The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has received a $1.25 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. to help establish Curious Christian Children: Reimagining Kids in Worship, a new initiative of the ELCA's Ministry with Children.The Curious Christian Children: Reimagining Kids in Worship initiative will provide space for the best learning and integration of resources […]