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Worship Schedule
8:30 AM English Worship Service
9:46 AM The 9:46 Crowd
10:00 AM English Worship Service
11:05 AM Sunday School combined English/Spanish
12:00 PM Spanish Worship Service
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Message from Pastor Albert
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Off to a good start!
On the evening of Sunday, September 10, Pr. Varinia, Isidro, and I met with seven members of St. Mark's who speak Spanish and live in the Woodbridge, Dale City, Manassas area to consider expanding St. Mark's Spanish ministry into that area. While St. Mark's was once a community church for Spanish-speaking people, it is now more regional as members have moved away but continue to worship with us.
We will meet again on Sunday, October 1 to continue the conversation. Our members will be inviting other members to join us. We expect to be applying to our Metro DC synod for a grant from our New Connections synodical campaign. The campaign will also be the beneficiary of our 3rd quarter benevolence. Please continue to keep this exploration in your prayers. Planting a new worshiping community is both exciting and challenging. We ask the Spirit to guide and empower us.
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Dwelling in God's Word (the Book of Acts)
will resume on Tuesday, September 19th at 7:00 PM and Thursday, September 21st at 10:30 AM. All are welcome to join us! We will be picking up at chapter 15, so it would be helpful to read or review chapters 1-14. It's a great book, and I hope you will join us.
+ Pr. Albert
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L
uther
F
acts
When Martin Luther translated the Bible into German, he could not have known that, over time, his effort would also influence the emergence of an English-language version. This story begins when English scholar William Tyndale (1494-1536), who embraced Luther's stress on justification by faith, traveled to Wittenberg in 1524. While there, having already begun working on the New Testament, he remained--living in Worms and Hamburg--to complete an English translation of the Old Testament. In 1526, using the new printing press technology, German printers produced the entire Tyndale Bible, some copies of which were then shipped over to England. At first Henry VIII endorsed the new translation, but then turned against Tyndale for criticizing his eventual marriage to Anne Boleyn. After a decade of persecution, the translator was executed and burned at the stake. Later biblical translations--all built off of the Tyndale Bible--would lead eventually in 1611 to the publication of the King James Version. Martin Luther's conviction that the Word of God must be available in the vernacular thus led to a Bible that would become the central biblical translation for the English-reading world.
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NATIONAL LUTHERAN CHOIR
Basilica of the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington, D.C.
7:00 P.M., Sunday, October 22, 2017
The concert will include the world premier of
The Holy Spirit Mass: Together in Hope
by young Norwegian composer Kim Andre Arnesen in commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation.
The concert is free, but seating tickets are recommended.
To obtain tickets, follow the link below.
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CONCERT THIS SUNDAY
REFORMATION REVERBERATIONS:
A PROGRAM OF ORGAN MUSIC AND HYMNS
Sunday, September 17, 2017 * 4:00 PM * St. Mark's Lutheran Church
Chris Michaelsen, Organist
For more than 500 years, the hymns of Martin Luther have reverberated through our churches from the lips and hearts of faithful Christians. These hymns have been augmented and amplified by organ music from the pens of five centuries of composers, from Luther himself to J. S. Bach to Hugo Distler to many living 21st century men and women. Join Chris for a program of organ music on St. Mark's 42-rank Steiner-Reck pipe organ (Op. #100, 1994), and come ready to sing five of Luther's best-loved hymns.
Let the music of the 16th century Church come alive in the voices of the 21st century Church—in
your
voices!—and the 2,107 pipes of the King of Instruments.
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Parent Bible Study: 11:05 AM-12:00 PM in the Lounge.
Come for donuts, a short DVD study & conversation.
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11:00 AM – 12:00 PM in the Youth Room,
Room 215, Education Wing
Covering walking through the Old Testament:
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7
th
and 8
th
Graders: 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM in Room 216, Education Wing
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Suicide and Depression Prevention
Plan to attend the program on Suicide and Depression Prevention on September 24th beginning at 11:05 AM following the 10:00 AM worship service in Fellowship Hall. The panel of experts will include a master social worker, a prominent academic from George Mason University, a Fairfax police detective, and Pastor Espinosa, followed by Q&A. Light refreshments will be served. Please feel free to distribute the attached flyer on this urgent topic.
Thanks,
Dan Ancona
703-507-7138
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Registration deadline: EXTENDED until October 6, 2017 [as long as you are able to reserve a room directly after September 13 with the conference center!]
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All Lutheran Women Retreat
“Important Stories and Pointless People”
This is a two-night Lutheran women’s retreat open to ALL women. Join us at the Fredericksburg Hospitality House in Fredericksburg, VA, October 13-15, 2017. (Breakfasts are included as part of the room registration.)
The theme will revolve around important Biblical stories as told by Biblical Storytellers throughout the event and retreat sessions led by Pastor Brett Davis from Muhlenberg Lutheran Church in Harrisonburg, VA. Pastor Brett’s sessions will draw from Dan Erlander’s book
Tales of the Pointless People
.
There will be opportunities for fellowship, prayer, worship, and music.
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Next Military Packages Collection: Sunday, September 24th
We don’t have a specific name yet, but we will before the 24
th.
If you have a suggestion, please give the name, address, and email address (if possible) to Mary Eskelund, Gerald Eskelund, or Gayle Parsons. Here is part of a thank-you note about last month’s shipment
:
Isaac Kennen has shared his goodies boxes with our whole division and I wanted to let you know how much I appreciate you taking the time gathering and putting these together. Being away from home is hard and it makes our day better when we receive homemade goodies from the states. Just want to say THANK YOU! :)
Thank you for your always-generous support.
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Lynbrook Elementary School Needs
Lynbrook ES participated again this year in the
Kids R 1
st
, a free school supply program that their Social Worker, Claudia McDowell coordinated. Through this program, the students were provided most of the things on the school supply list.
Other current needs are:
- Glue sticks and tissues—they also are in great need of Lysol (or any brand) wipes.
- St. Mark’s Giant food shoppers—Please consider supporting Lynbrook School by registering your Giant bonus cards as Lynbrook being the “A+ Bonus Bucks” recipient. Their website is found at
- https://giantfood.com/school-rewards/?_requestid=169075
- Lynbrook school number: 02074
- Their school Health Room is in need of boys and girls clothing—age 4-12—underwear, socks, athletic shorts, and sweatpants for use when kids have accidents.
- Boxtops for Education—The small Boxtops are found on General Mills products and an array of other products to include toilet tissue, copy paper, office supplies, and more. Please place them in the Boxtops collection box in the Narthex in front of the Bulletin Board.
Beginning in October: Lynbrook is in need of Mentors and Tutors.
- Mentors meet with students during their 30-minute lunch times. For more information, please contact the coordinator, school counselor, Stacey Coleman, 703-866-2974 or scoleman@fcps.edu.
- Tutors meet after school on Tuesdays with students for one hour. For more information, please contact the librarian, Julie Brannan, 703-866-2958 or jbbrannan@fcps.edu.
THANK YOU!!!
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Children’s Church Update
This year we will have Children’s Church on the 1
st
, 2
nd
, 4
th
, and 5
th
Sundays of the month at the 10:00 AM service. We would like to have Children’s Church on the 3
rd
Sunday as well, but we need a lead teacher and adult helper. If you are interested in “discipling” God’s children, please contact Cathy Snider at
csnider4@verizon.net
or 571-277-2372.
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St. Mark’s Bells
Ring in the fall by joining one of the St. Mark's Handbell Ensembles:
- Adult Bells rehearse on Thursday evenings from 7:00-8:00 PM in the sanctuary. The group plays in worship about once a month and attends a spring handbell festival.
- Youth Bells will rehearse on Sunday afternoons from 1:30-2:30 PM in the sanctuary. This beginning group is open to grades four and up.
Come join us for our first rehearsals on
September 15 and September 17
to try out ringing—no commitment required!
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Get ready … It’s coming!
St. Mark’s Holiday Bazaar
Sunday, November 5, 2017
Last year YOU made it possible to give away over $3000
to help spread the light of God’s love into the community
via St. Mark’s Holiday Bazaar.
NOW … YOU can do it again!
Get out “your special talent” tools
(recipes, beads, needle/thread, hammer/nails, etc.)
and plan to donate an item (or two or more)
of your handwork to help others.
Equal opportunity for men, women, and children.
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St. Mark’s Visitation Team
Members of the St. Mark’s Visitation Team do just that—they visit. For almost two years, they have visited shut-ins who are not able to worship on Sunday mornings and patients who are hospitalized.
The goal of this ministry is to keep in contact with as many St. Mark’s friends and members as possible.
Alice Haupt
handles the telephone arm of this team to supplement personal visits. She keeps in contact by phone.
Jill Akers
has created some personalized greeting cards for a mailing arm, also to supplement personal visits. So ...
Now the Visitation Team needs a
Card Person
, someone to send the greeting cards in the US mail with a stamp. This is an easy at-home job for somebody. Team members would feed names to the Card Person, who would then mail the cards. And keep track.
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e-Giving
...
e-Giving is a convenient way of making your regular financial contributions to St. Mark’s. You can go to St. Mark’s website at
http://www.stmarks-elca.org/e-giving
to learn about the many advantages and the convenience of e-Giving. Just click on the link provided on that webpage to download and complete the e-Giving form. You can also change your monthly contribution at any time by completing a new form and mailing it to the church or dropping it off in the church office. For more information, please contact our Business Manager, Myrna Smith, at 703-451-4331.
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Article Deadline
We need YOUR help! In order that ALL OF US receive the necessary documents for This Week, The Messenger, and the website, please send all articles you wish to have published
no later than 5:00 PM on the Tuesday
before the Sunday you wish for the articles to appear. Send those articles to
communications@stmarks-elca.org
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