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To be a church aglow, ignited by the fire of God's Holy Spirit, lighting the way in our community and warming the hearts of those we meet.
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Saint Mark UMC
616 Quincy Road
Seneca, SC 29678
Call us:
9 am - 5 pm (M-Th)
(864) 882-2603
Pastoral Care
Emergencies or after regular office hours
call or text
(864) 888-7072
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Saint Mark 2017 Ministry Guidebook
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to view the entire Saint Mark 2017 Ministry Guidebook with information about church structure, leadership, ministries and our 2017 budget.
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Check Out Our Entire Church Calendar of Events
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to see what is going on at Saint Mark this week and the weeks to come.
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May 21, 2017
Graduate Sunday
Sunday Schedule
9:00 am
Regular
Traditional Service
Sanctuary
9:00 am
Celebration
Graduate Sunday Service
Saint Mark Center
9:15 am
Children's Chapel
10:00 am
Atrium Fellowship
with beverages and refreshments
10:15 am
Sunday School
for all ages
Classrooms
11:15 am
Traditional
Graduate Sunday Service
Sanctuary
12:30 pm
Adult Council Meeting
4:00 pm
Wings Choir Tour Rehearsal
5:00 pm
Mission/Service Team Meeting
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Listen to Last Week's Sermon Today
If you were not able to attend worship on any given Sunday, you can still listen to the sermon.
Click here to select and listen to sermons that you may have missed.
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Wednesday. On the subject line, please type in "Heart Beat" so that we can easily find your article among the other emails.
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Got Good News To Share With Your Saint Mark Family?
Good news lifts our spirits. Share your good news with us. We will publish your good news in our
"People 'Neath Our Steeple" feature. Your news will be sent out as an email.
Click here to share your good news (achievements, births, awards, etc.). Include pictures if you have them.
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Got Pictures?
We are creating an archive of pictures taken at Saint Mark events and activities. If you have taken pictures and want to share them, please
click here and send them to us.
Or use our Saint Mark hashtag
#stmarkumc and post your photos on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram.
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Interested in LGBT Inclusion?
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Prayer Focus for This Week
Pray for all
who are caught up in the activities and violence of the approximately 33,000 street gangs, motorcycle gangs, and prison gangs totaling about 1.4 million members who are criminally active in the U.S. and Puerto Rico. Pray that these individuals will safely find their way out of the control of these dangerous bands of criminals. Pray for family members who have lost loved ones to gang violence.
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Submit Your Prayer R
equests
Saint Mark is pleased to receive your prayer requests . . . for yourself or for friends or loved ones.
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to submit your request.
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Join us for worship this Sunday!
Traditional Service
(Regular worship service -
not part of the graduate celebration)
THIS Sunday, May 21
9:00 am ONLY
Sanctuary
Bringing the Message
Rev. Tony Medlin
"Struggling to Believe"
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Celebrate our high school and college graduates
at
two of our three services of worship
THIS Sunday, May 21.
9:00 Celebration (Saint Mark Center)
11:15 Traditional (Sanctuary)
Bringing the Message
Rev. Todd Davis
"A Hopeful Future"
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Meet Our 2017 Graduates
High School
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Leesee Chastain
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Waverly Speegle
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Skyler Evatt
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Jess Smith
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Matt Garland
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Rachel Strader
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Addie Pate
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Kylie Wallace
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Brayden Rabalais
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Russ Wilson
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College
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Alex Baldwin
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Shelby Rushe
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Emily Ewing
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Tyler Wagner
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Sydney Reichert
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Rebekah Wales
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Aubrey Rushe
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The CDC Yard Sale begins TOMORROW!!
Stop by and shop!!
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Summer Tour Sponsorships
Beginning THIS Sunday, May 21
Between Services and Sunday School
Atrium
Our annual opportunity to sponsor our "Wing's youth" on tour will begin this Sunday, May 21, in the atrium. With your $25.00 sponsorship, you will receive a photo of your youth, a ribbon to wear, and a specific itinerary to guide your prayers each day.
Thank you for your continued love and support!
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Saint Mark Child Development Center
Parents' Night Out
(infants through 12 years old)
Friday, May 26
5:30 - 9:30 pm
$10/hour for one child
$5 per hour for each additional child
Please click here to contact
Becca Williams or call her at (864) 882-0333 for details or to reserve your child's spot.
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Caitlyn's first Sunday with us will be
May 28. Please join us in making her feel welcome.
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South Carolina Conference-Wide Mission
Saint Mark UMC has committed
$1000 toward our South Carolina conference-wide mission to support
Homes for Hope to reduce homelessness in the Greenville area. We need your donation toward our $1000 goal by
next Sunday, May 28. Thanks for your generosity!
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Church-wide Covered Dish
Fellowship Lunch
Pentecost Sunday, June 4
12:30 pm
Saint Mark Center
As part of our Pentecost celebration, a day set aside to celebrate the birth of the Church of Jesus Christ, we will continue our celebration by sharing in "table fellowship" - eating a meal together as one united family of faith.
EVERYONE is invited. Will you join us?
Bring a dish to share! Beverages will be provided. We hope to see you there!
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Be in prayer as our clergy and lay delegates prepare for this year's annual conference. In addition to
Pastor Todd and Pastor Shawna, our lay delegates will be:
Charles and Mary Ann Fox
Jim and Susan Matthews
Ginny Murdock
Jane Harlin
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Church Office Carpet Installation
June 5 - 9
New carpet will be installed in the church office wing the week of June 5 - 9. Our church office
will be open Monday, June 5 through Thursday, June 8, as usual, but some staff may not be accessible, or will be working from home while the installation is taking place. Please call before stopping by to see who is available to help you. A reminder that Pastors Todd and Shawna will be be away at Annual Conference that week.
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Beyond Forwarded Yesterdays....
During this session you will engage in a combination of interactive activities, engaging short videos and robust group discussions, all designed to help you better understand and explore the why's of behavior rather than just the what's. Through the development of introspective empowerment, you will learn to become deliberate shapers of your environment rather than passive, reactionary respondents.
Join us June 11 at 4:00 pm in the Commons Room for a discussion on racial reconciliation, followed by a snack supper.
Winston Holston, of the
Call Me Mister Progam at Clemson, will facilitate the discussion, and will be bringing several of his students from the program.
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Something
new is coming to Saint Mark! If you are 50+ . . . if you enjoy fun, and fellowship . . . if you want to get to know some wonderful folks in our Saint Mark family . . .
you will want to pay attention.
First, mark this date on your calendar:
Friday, June 30 at 6:30 pm
Watch for details in our upcoming issues of the Heart Beat.
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Summer Anderson District
Lay Servant Ministries School
Saturday, August 19 and Sunday, August 20
South Main Chapel and Mercy Center
Anderson, SC
Courses offered:
Basic Lay Servant Ministry
Spiritual Gifts
Story Telling
Cost: $45 if registered before July 1, $50 if registered between July 1 - 4.
Classes are open to everyone, regardless of whether or not you are interested in becoming a certified lay servant. For those who are or wish to be a certified lay servant, remember that you must take a course beyond the Basic course at least once every 3 years.
For further information, click here to contact Gwendolyn Brown, Anderson District Director of Lay Servant Ministries, or call her at (678) 480-5176.
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Summer Tour
June 15-21
Wings for the Lord
Homecoming Concert
Wednesday, June 21
7:00 pm
Sanctuary
Annual Staff Retreat
June 25-27
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Trevis Young
Farewell Solo Organ Recital
Thursday, June 1
7 - 8:15 pm
Forth Hill Presbyterian Church
101 Edgewood Ave.
Clemson, SC 29631
Trevis Young, the Director of Music Ministries at Clemson United Methodist Church, is offering a farewell s
olo organ recital featuring a few of his "favorites". Trevis writes, (This is) "my musical thank you gift to the community as our family prepares to depart." Trevis has collaborated with David Wilcox and our Saint Mark Music Ministry on several occasions.
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FOR YOUR INFORMATION
Rev. Shawna Darnall is out of the office and will be back on Thursday, May 25.
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Will you consider making a pledge to help us retire our debt? For more information,
click here to contact Debbie Dubose. We would like to conclude this campaign by
Sunday, May 28, if at all possible.
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Sunday Transportation Service
We are exploring the possibility of providing transportation service to and from worship on Sunday mornings beginning sometime this summer. Maybe you no longer drive, but want to come to worship. Maybe you are temporarily unable to drive due to injury or surgery. Maybe you don't have a vehicle.
We want to make sure that you can get to church on Sunday morning! We hope to offer transportation that will give you the opportunity to attend
Sunday School at 10:15 am and our 11:15 worship service.
We need to find out of there is a need for this service, so it is important that you let us know that you are interested - or that someone you know is interested. For more information or to express your interest,
click here to contact Marla Fuller, or call her at the church office (864) 882-2603 by
Sunday, June 11.
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Transportation to Church Needed
We have an immediate need for transportation to the 11:15 Traditional Service on Sunday mornings. This individual lives just off of Blue Ridge Blvd (Rte 28) near Keowee School Road and Bounty Land Road. If you live in the vicinity and would be willing to help transport this individual (one way) to worship on Sundays, click here to contact Marla Fuller.
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"Milk Jug" Shoes
Do you remember when Pastor Shawna collected hundreds of plastic jugs that were to be used by the youth who attended Revolution in January? Your donation of jugs of every kind went into making shoes that were distributed last week in Jinja, Uganda (see photo above). The milk jugs serve to reinforce the heel and toe of each shoe. Your "milk jugs" made a huge difference for the people in this African community. Thank you, Saint Mark!!!
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Thank You So Much!
The Aesthetics Committee would like to thank all disciples of Saint Mark United Methodist Church for their cross contributions to the
Gallery of Crosses. Each cross adds to the uniqueness and beauty of the gallery. Each cross reminds us what our Savior did for us.
Anyone who to wishes to contribute crosses to the next phase of our wall of crosses will have an opportunity to do so this fall. The wall to the left of the current gallery has been painted and track lighting has already been installed in anticipation of more crosses. Watch for details.
The Aesthetics Committee worked very hard trying to ensure the accompanying book would be correct; therefore, if you find a mistake, please bring it to our attention so that spelling or other errors may be corrected.
Click here to contact Joyce Carney.
The Committee was honored to prepare this wall for Saint Mark. Please help us add to our gallery in the future.
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Thank you, thank you, over and over for the cards, visits, flowers, meals, phone calls, and especially your prayers. We are so grateful to be part of a caring church family. Diane is able to get out for short periods of time other than for doctors' appointments. There is more time needed for recovery and discovery of what is causing the pain and weight loss.
We feel blessed to be part of the amazing Saint Mark Church family.
Art and Diane Hirt
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SAINTS IN SERVICE
HELPING YOU PLUG IN . . .
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LET US KNOW HOW YOU WANT TO PLUG IN!
Click here to discover the many ways to serve at Saint Mark. Fill out the form and return it to Marla Fuller in the church office. We will get you plugged in!
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