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Seniors Together

Seniors Together will be meeting again in the Parish Hall on May 8 at 1:00 pm; cookies, tea and coffee, and good fellowship are promised. Those who attended the April Seniors Together meeting had a wonderful time learning about spring flowers and plants. Gail told all about planting potatoes in the “Great Outback,” and Mavis…

Quarter Circle

The next Quarter Circle will be held at Cathy’s home on Tuesday, May 29th at 6:30 pm. Women or men who like to read and would enjoy sharing a meal and a good book discussion are invited to join us. The read for this quarter is “The Dirty Life: A Memoir of Farming, Food and Love” by…

Join Us for Our First Craftapolooza!

On Saturday, May 5, 10:00 a.m. to noon, children, women, even men, are invited to join us in the Parish Hall for some beginning handwork instruction. Beginning Crochet will be taught by Margi, our own in-house, gifted needle artist. We will have crochet hooks and yarn available for use; feel free to bring your own…

Potato Planting 8

Record-Setting Garden Event!

Would you ever think 20 rows of potatoes could be planted in 33 minutes? Well, on Saturday, April 14, St Mark’s Potato Patch Planters set this record! Three major factors contributed to the success of the event – preparation, attendance and a wonderful breakfast spread! Preparation included plowing the land; securing the planter potatoes from…

St Mark Youth to Celebrate Earth Day

April 22 is Earth Day. Sunday School children at St. Mark Lutheran Church will celebrate Earth Day this year by planting plant starts and seeds for a variety of herbs. The herb garden will be in a 8’ x’8’ raised bed that is part of St. Mark’s Community Garden. A three-quarters wine barrel has recently…

Easter Sunday Happenings

What a joyous morning!  There was an abundance of music with both the Chancel Choir and PraisRing performing.  We also had two trumpets, two trombones, and an electric guitar to accompany all the hymns and perform the prelude and the postlude music.  There was a reaffirmation of baptism and the announcement of several children that were…

Holy Week Activities

“Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.” – Martin Luther – The Last Supper, the First Communion. On Maundy Thursday, Jesus gathered with his disciples for what would be his last meal with them before his death. But this meal marked the start of…

Last Sunday in Lent and the Banners are BEAUTIFUL!!!

The banners are now complete and they are just beautiful. View the picture, and then reread Pastor Nelson’s description of the banners found in a previous post.  St. Mark is so truly blessed to have an ‘artist in residence’ who shares his art with us so freely.  Thank you very much David I. Nelson!

Lenten/Easter Art Explanation by David I. Nelson

Sometimes that very first reading of a season of the church year has a special significance.  I think this Lent is just such a case.  The story of Noah and the rainbow sets the stage and introduces the covenant theme of the whole season.  This year we get a short history of Covenant Theology and…