Fall Back! 

Women of St. Mark's Bazaar!

This coming Sunday, November 5 is All Saints Sunday and you are invited to bring framed pictures of loved ones who have died. As you arrive for worship, you may bring your pictures forward and set them on the tables that will be placed in front of the altar. Along with the candles that surround the pictures, it will be a beautiful reminder of the great company of saints that we all belong to as children of God.

Please join in praying for the Habitat for Humanity group from St, Mark's that leaves for Guatemala this week to build homes for local families. They will spend one week working with the home owners and other volunteers to build houses that offer safety, shelter, and hope for many years to come. The group, led by Gary and Linda Petersen, includes Steve Cox, Jessica Cox, Loren Donahue, Lisa Espinosa, Oscar Espinosa, Mike Farley, Don Haueisen, Gordon Henry, Melissa Henry, Bill Klancke, Carol Petersen, Glenn Petersen, Elizabeth Skarshaug, Tom Roberts, and Bruce Wilcox.            

Congratulations to our 2017 Confirmation Students who Affirmed their Baptism at the 11am service last Sunday!  This year's students are: Jack Banken, Amber Gainey, Robert Heckard, Grace Laubach, Anna-Liisa Mayor, Kellen Meade, Ava Montgomery, Carl Reese, Abby Reiser.  

High School Youth: Lutheran Summer Music Director of Admissions, Dietrich Jessen, will be visiting our area and lead an information session on Sunday, November 12, at 4:00 p.m. at Gloria Dei Lutheran in Olympia.   

Lutheran Summer Music is for high school students involved in Band, Choir, Orchestra, Organ and Piano, and those who compose music.  It's an incredible month-long music intensive working with college professors in a faith-based community of high school students from around America and other countries.  For more detailed information about LSM online, please visit www.LutheranMusicProgram.org, or come and meet Dietrich to learn more!

LSM  also o ffers a two-week program as well.  If you or your student are at all interested in LSM, this info session is a great place to start.  

Joint Catholic/Lutheran worship service:  "New Birth/Living Hope", Tuesday, November 14th, 7pm, St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Parish, 7112 S 12th St, Tacoma

As we remember both the joys and sorrows of the centuries since the Protestant Reformation, Lutheran and Catholic Christians come together to worship our common Savior.  This service is the outcome of a year of conversations between church leaders from many parishes in Pierce County, including St. Mark's (Pastor Ruud, Pastor Shjerven and Deacon Ingelaurie Lisher will all be a part of the service).  Everyone is invited to participate in this historic worship service!  (If you would like to sing in an intergenerational mass choir, please arrive at St. Charles at 6pm)

A Reformation 500 service is being held at PLU in Lagerquist Hall on the afternoon of Sunday, November 5th.  Everyone is happily invited to attend this coming-together of people from Lutheran congregations all over our area. Our St. Mark's children's choirs have been invited by the bishop to sing the offertory, which is a special honor for them that they are excited about.  An additional opportunity exists that day for all adult singers to be part of the mass-choir for this event, which will have a rehearsal at Lagerquist Hall at 1:30 pm on the day of the event. Inquire with Cooper Sherry to take part in the mass-choir. 

At the inaugural event in early September, we agreed to meet the second Thursdays of each month:

St. Mark's will be joining with St. Patrick's Catholic Church to provide goodies for the reception after the joint Catholic/Lutheran worship service at St. Charles Borromeo on Tuesday, November 14th.  We are in charge of the baked goods (a Lutheran strength!)  If you are able to provide a few dozen cookies for this reception, please bring them to church by Tuesday morning (11/14).  Thank you!

Our local Habitat affiliate invites you to come help build houses in the Tillicum neighborhood. Earlier this summer, teams from St. Mark's worked on the Building on Faith house, and now even more houses are being built in the same area. There are two ways to get involved: If you would like to pick a date and join others who will be at the site that day, you can visit the web site ( www.tpc-habitat.org ) and use the VolunteerUp module to sign up. Or, you can volunteer to be part of a group from St. Mark's by contacting Deborah Herforth (email  deborahherforth@yahoo.com , or phone  206-372-1433 ). Please come out and join the fun! 

We will continue to donate hats and scarves during the fall and winter. During these months please leave your finished items on the table outside the office and feel free to pick up another skein or two of yarn for your next project. Thank you! 

Tacoma Lutheran Retirement Community would like to invite the congregation of St Mark's to participate in classes at the Chihuly Family Art Center on the TLRC campus. We have many wonderful offerings as listed below. To join a class or for more information, please call Diane Schurr at 253-267-5760.

 

Wednesdays at 1:00 - Ceramics

Fridays at 10:00 - Acrylic Painting

Saturdays at 9:30 - Pen and Ink Drawing

Tuesday, Oct 24 - Card Making

Mondays at 1:00 - Come and bring your knitting or other handwork

 

We look forward to having you join us for a class soon!

Children and Youth Faith Formation