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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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Dear Friends in Christ,
One of our goals at St. Mark's is to increase participation of youth and families in worship and education. This past Sunday we had 14 children at the children's sermon at 10:00 AM. Then at 11:05 AM we had 52 children and youth at our education hour. Fourteen for the sermon is the high point since we started having them back in July, and 52 for education is up from 40 on the same Sunday in September last year. We are off to an excellent start!
In addition to this, we are also having families present the bread and wine for communion at the time of the offering during the 10:00 AM service. To better help us move the service along, we will try distribution of communion at this service using intinction (dipping the bread into the wine/juice). We will use the small cups at the 8:30 service this Sunday.
Sundays at St. Mark's are action-packed. We look forward to growing in faith with you!
This week's discipleship theme is worship. Come, let us worship the Lord together!
Yours in Christ,
Pastor Albert
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L
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By the late 1530s and early 1540s, Martin Luther's reform efforts in Germany reached even into the world of art. A case in point can be found in the lives of Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1555) and his son Lucas Cranach the Younger (1515-1586), both highly regarded Renaissance painters. The father became a prominent advocate for the Reformation with his paintings of reformers and of the woodcut images for Luther's German Bible. Both painters moved away from traditional religious icons to a stress on discipleship. They influenced other artists to create new Lutheran Altarpieces to replace the existing ones. Examples are the stunning images found on the altar in Wittenberg's City Church, which depict the reformers as the Apostles at the Last Supper. Louis Cranach the Elder died as this work was underway and his son completed the painting. Together, the two men left a powerful legacy of religious art that helped Martin Luther convey his message. Today their combined body of work still provides valuable images of and insights into the Reformation.
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Cranach the Elder's Altarpiece at the City Church in Wittenberg.
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REFORMATION REVERBERATIONS
500 Years
Thank you Chris Michaelsen!
It was a wonderful concert!
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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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St. Mark's Youth Group
9-17-2017
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Left to Right, Top to Bottom: Joy Weekly, Sarah Sheridan, Kara Barnes, Brian Mendez, Michael Bianchetta, Nils Herfindahl, Ian Wharton, David Mendez, Tryn Dunne, Erland Herfindahl, Noel Sheridan, Stephanie Ogle, Nayla Avila, Lauren Meiser, Bonnie Vigil, Anna Ferrari, and Joseph Triolo.
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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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Military Packages Collection: This Sunday, September 24th
We don’t have any requests for specific items for this month’s shipment of packages, so your usual wonderful contributions of goodies, snacks, toiletries, etc. will be wonderful.
Thank you so much!
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INVITATION TO FRIENDS AND VISITORS
You are invited to "Coffee with the Pastors."
Sunday, October 15, at 11:00 AM
(same time as Sunday School)
Green Room downstairs off the Fellowship Hall
(Watch for signs.)
Learn more about life at St. Mark’s.
The following Sunday, October 22,
for those who are interested,
New Members will be received into the congregation.
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Service, Learning and Camping in Virginia Beach
Troop 881
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- October 22, 2017, 4:00 PM
- April 29, 2018, 4:00 PM
- June 3, 2018, 4:00 PM
- November 5, 2017 8:30 AM until Noon
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Save January 27, 2018
Speaking Peace Together
We live in a world that is spinning out of control in so many ways. Watch any news program anywhere in the world and you will be told of an extremist or an enemy or people who are the other to you—across socio-economic, religious, racial, and cultural lines. What if, rather than vilifying or seeking to eliminate the other, we sought to understand them and even learn from them? Would our communities change? Would we be changed? When we participate in shalom we participate with God in the healing, redemption, and reconciliation of the world. When we begin to see the value of the “other,” and even more, when we begin to make space for the “other” in our own lives, we make shalom possible. Speaking Peace Together is an opportunity to hear the underlying assumptions, worldviews and perspectives of three unlikely allies on the path to peace.
St. Mark’s Lutheran Church
5800 Backlick Road
Springfield, VA 22150
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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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