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If you are curious about St. Mark, interested in making St. Mark your church home, recently joined our congregation, or have been a long time member, you are welcome to attend a New Member Orientation on either Sunday, November 6 or Sunday, November 13 at 10:00am. (This is the same orientation — it is being…
All you need is love…. dah – dah – dah – dah – dah…. On Sunday, October 23rd, at both worship services (8:30 and 11:00am), all our worship music will be songs from The Beatles. The liturgical format will be a “Lessons and Carols” service with Holy Communion. PraisRing (St. Mark’s handbell choir) will be…
On Sunday, October 30th, we are celebrating Reformation Sunday. We give thanks that we are part of a “reforming” church that continually seeks to be faithful to how the Spirit is at work in this time and place, shaping us to be the Body of Christ. On this day you are encouraged to wear RED as…
Spiders, bats, black cats and more… Let’s see what St. Mark Boo-unco has in store! Everyone, the young and not so young, are welcome to a frightfully fun evening of Bunco on Sunday, October 30th from 7-8:30pm in the Parish Hall. Bunco is a dice game that can be played by people of all ages.…
Today’s sermon, given by “guest” Pastor Linda Milks, a member of our St. Mark congregation, spoke to the parable of the persistent widow and the hateful judge (Luke 18). The widow wears the judge down with her constant knock, knock, knocking, her persistent pleas for justice against her opponent. So she won’t keep bothering him,…
On Sunday, October 9th, during our 8:30 worship service, the debut of a new, original song, “Breathe Deep,” written by Trudy Hoy (lyrics) and Terry Shaw (music) was performed by our Chancel Choir. What an amazing gift! Thank you Trudy and Terry for putting a beautiful song in our hearts! (Soloists were Dave E. and…
On this 21st Sunday after Pentecost, we are reminded that the “body and blood of Jesus in holy communion have made us clean”. Today’s Gospel tells of the 10 lepers who asked for mercy from Jesus. He granted their request, healed all ten, and sent them on their way to share the good news. Only…
This Sunday’s gospel talks about Faith being the size of a mustard seed. In the gospel, the apostles say to the Lord increase our Faith. Help us to be better. Pastor Eric said the key to a sermon is to ask: So what? Now what? Everything we do is Faith formation as we are building…
Born into the family of a wealthy merchant, Francis gave up his inheritance to serve poor people. He formed the Order of Friars Minor (called Franciscans), who took on poverty and the task of preaching “using words if necessary.” Francis had a spirit of gratitude for all of God’s creation. We celebrated St. Francis and…
Today we hear the story of the rich man and Lazarus in the gospel. This is the only parable where someone is given a name. The rich man didn’t pay attention to Lazarus. He was indifferent to him. The truth is, we pass Lazarus every day. How are we going to respond? We need to…