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To Be and Make Disciples of
Jesus Christ
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Contact Us?
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 2018 Ministry Guidebook
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to view the entire Saint Mark 2018 Ministry Guidebook with information about church structure, leadership, ministries and our 2018 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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Schedule
9:00 am
Sunday School
9:40 am
Fellowship Time in the Atrium
10:00 am
Celebration Worship
Saint Mark Center
10:00 am
Traditional Worship
Sanctuary
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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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Got Information to Share in Next Week's
Heart Beat?
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to send your Heart Beat post to us by no later than 12:00 noon next
Thursday. 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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Interested in LGBTQ+ Inclusion?
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Prayer Focus for This Week
Pray for families who are getting in last summer vacations before school begins. Pray for safe travel. Pray for meaningful family time.
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Submit Your Prayer Requests
Saint Mark is pleased to receive your prayer requests . . . for yourself or for friends or loved ones.
Click here
to submit your request to Pastor Todd Davis.
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MOVING FORWARD AT SAINT MARK
We Continue Our NEW Regular
Worship Schedule
BOTH Services at 10 am
Wesley Covenant Renewal Service
In 1775, John Wesley introduced the covenant service as an important part of spiritual life in the Methodist Societies. This renewal service was a time for the Methodists to gather annually in a time of self-examination, reflection, and dedication, wholly giving up themselves and renewing covenant with God.
This Sunday, as the perfect culmination of our Covenant Sermon Series, we will celebrate and recommit ourselves to the covenant relationship that God offers to each of us by participating together in a Wesley Covenant Renewal Service.
Traditional Worship - in the Sanctuary
"Need Some Encouragement?"
Rev. Todd Davis
Celebration Worship - in the Saint Mark Center
Rev. Shawna Darnall
Fellowship time in the atrium
Sunday School for all ages
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Grab Your Cleaning Supplies and Help Us Give Saint Mark a Good Fall Cleaning!!
Adult Sunday School Classes will primarily be cleaning their classrooms. We invite others of you to help with cleaning the sanctuary and areas on and around our front porch. Can you help? If so, contact Hayes Cross at (864) 719-0059 at your earliest convenience.
Click here to see a detailed list of what needs to be done and what to bring.
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Saint Mark Knitted Knockers Group
Monday, August 13
(Second Monday of each month)
1 - 4 pm
Room B212 (Bess' Table Room)
This Saint Mark group is knitting prosthetics for breast cancer survivors on the Island of Eleuthera. For more information,
click here to contact Carolyn Johnson.
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Escape Zone Retreat
for 5th Graders (rising 6th Graders)
Friday, August 17
6 pm
On Friday, August 17, 5th graders will go to Escape Zone of Seneca
. (Click here for information about this venue.) This retreat will be a celebration of the promotion of our young pre-youth into our youth ministry. These children will have just completed the book, Know God, a 28-day Devotional for our 5th graders, to start them on a journey toward knowing God better. Because even though there is no checklist for knowing everything about God, there are a few things we can do every day that will help us to know God better . . . HEAR, PRAY, TALK and LIVE. This wonderful book allows the kids to journal daily and actually experience knowing God.
For more information about this retreat, click here to contact our Children's Minister, Lisa Kiser.
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TODAY IS THE LAST DAY
TO MAKE YOUR RESERVATION(S)!
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On
Faith Formation Sunday we will celebrate the ways faith formation happens better when we're together! Worshiping all together, we will have the blessing of the backpacks, our rising third graders will receive new bibles, our rising sixth graders will receive pocket crosses, and all of us will renew our commitment to this journey called faith.
Worship will be followed with a church-wide potluck luncheon in the Saint Mark Center, during which we will hear of upcoming studies and ways of getting connected.
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All children and youth are invited to bring their school backpacks to our one combined service of worship at 10 am during Faith Formation Sunday on August 19. They will be invited to come forward with their backpacks to have them blessed before they head out to begin a new school year the next day. For more information, click here to contact Pastor Shawna.
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Calling All Singers!!
Chancel Choir Rehearsals Resume
Wednesday, August 22
Choir Room
For more information,
click here to contact David Wilcox.
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We return to our new regular schedule and begin our new sermon series,
Moving Forward, in which we will be addressing head on the ways we are moving forward together at Saint Mark.
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August 26 -
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Moving Forward: Changing Lanes |
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September 2 -
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Moving Forward: Life in the Carpool Lane |
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Moving Forward: GPS |
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Moving Forward: Keeping Our Eyes on the Road |
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This event will kick off the new program year for our Saint Mark youth, grades 6 through college. For more information, or to RSVP by Sunday, August 12, click here to contact Donna Poston.
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Attention All Youth
Grades 6 - College
Get Involved In Our
Saint Mark Youth Ministry!!
For more information, click here to contact Donna Poston, our Minister of Youth and College Discipleship!
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Attention All Women!
Save the Date!!!
Circles of Faith - Circles of Hope -
Circles of Love in Action
Saint Mark UMW (United Methodist Women) is collecting products to use in putting together feminine hygiene kits for homeless women and girls in need. Kits will be assembled following the August 28 UMW General Meeting and subsequently made available locally through distribution points like Safe Harbor, Grace's Closet, Our Daily Rest, etc. Containers for collecting hygiene products are located in the atrium entrances. Items needed are pads, tampons, panty liners, and individually packaged non-alcohol cleansing wipes. Please support this effort with your contributions!
Click here
to visit the
Homeless Period Project website for more information.
For questions, or to make a reservation for the UMW August 28 General Meeting, please click here to contact Becky Hazelwood
or call her at (770) 633-2434.
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Our Next Memory Café Event
Come Cruise With Us!
FRIDAY, September 7
Memory Café participants will be cruising on Lake Keowee on Friday, September 7 at 1:30 pm. If enough people come, we may have a fleet of pontoons. Won't that be fun!
Participants should plan to meet at Saint Mark United Methodist Church in Seneca at 1:00 pm, to travel together to Keowee Cove, where they will board the pontoon boat(s). (Pontoon boats are easy to get on, even with a wheelchair or a walker).
Memory Café is a social group for family caregivers and their loved ones with memory loss or any type of dementia. The group meets once a month, usually the second Monday of each month. The purpose of the group is to keep caregivers and their loved ones from becoming isolated, and to promote support and socialization. It is a place where participants can laugh, cry, talk about their concerns and realize they are not alone. Memory Café will offer lots of fun activities throughout the year. These activities will be determined with participant input, and will all be free because Memory Café is sponsored by people who understand and appreciate the heroic role of caregivers, and want them to succeed.
In July we had 4 participants. At our gathering in August, we had 12 participants! This ministry is growing rapidly. If you would like to participate with your loved one on this boat trip, you will need to make your reservation soon so that we can ensure that there will be enough boats and snacks for all to enjoy. (Please note that this event is on a Friday and not on the customary Monday.)
For more information and to make your reservation, call Bonnie Holmes at (864) 916-9204. Bon Voyage!
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TREK Will Meet on Sunday Afternoons!
(for children through 5th grade)
For more information, click here to contact Lisa Kiser, our Minister of Children's Discipleship.
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We are excited about the return of our monthly midweek "gatherings" that will provide the opportunity for our church family to enjoy delicious meals and great fellowship.
Following our meal on Wednesday, September 12, we will enjoy a rousing game of Bingo. This activity if for ALL ages - children, youth and adults. Come join us as together we kick off our new program year!
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The
Mini Mission Auction is almost upon us! We have some nice items coming in for our Clemson table and our holiday table, but we could always use a few more. We also need more handmade items for the
Buy It Now table. For this table, we are looking for handmade craft items or homemade food items (quick breads, soup mixes, etc.) that would sell in the $10-$25 range.
The date of the auction is
Sunday, September 16, and the time is from 8:30 until noon. Substantial snacks will be provided, so please plan to stay after the worship services that day to place your bids, buy some nice items made by fellow Saint Mark disciples, and support the mission work of the church. Proceeds will support local and global outreach projects. Please contact Jane Harlin at (864) 638-2462 or
click here to email her for more information or to list your donations for the auction/sale.
Thanks for your support!
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The Commission on a Way Forward was proposed by the Council of Bishops and approved by the 2016 General Conference to do a complete examination and possible revision of every paragraph of the
Book of Discipline concerning human sexuality and explore options that help to maintain and strengthen the unity of the United Methodist Church. This is all in preparation for a Special Session of the General Conference to be held February 23-26, 2019 in St. Louis, Missouri. The purpose of this conference will be to receive and act on a report from the Commission on a Way Forward based on the recommendations of the Council of Bishops.
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR SAINT MARK?
Join Pastors Todd and Shawna on Sunday afternoon, September 16, as they lead us in a very important conversation about the issues that face our denomination and how, as a congregation, we can continue to be the loving, grace-filled Body of Christ God calls us to be.
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Are you 50+?
Another Elderberries Event!!!
Join us for a relaxing evening of fun, food and fellowship at beautiful Biggerstaff Retreat Center, right here in Seneca. The evening will begin at 5 pm with conversation and hors d'oeuvres, followed by our meal at 6:30 pm.
Plan to bring a dish to share (hors d'oeuvres, salad, side dish, dessert), plus $5 to cover meat, beverages and paper products.
Transportation is available, if you prefer not to drive there.
LET'S HAVE A GREAT TURNOUT!!!
Click here to RSVP and to indicate that you would like to reserve transportation for that evening.
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For more information,
click here to contact Donna Poston.
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An Elderberries Event
The Lettermen in Concert
Sunday, October 14
7 pm
Walhalla Civic Auditorium
Tickets are available now: $37 per person
Only 14 of 35 tickets are left . . . Reserve your tickets today!
If you have already reserved your tickets, or if you would like to purchase tickets, Marla Fuller will be available in the atrium between Sunday School and worship the next two Sundays, (August 12 and 19) to receive your payment of $37/ticket, and you will take your tickets with you. OR you may stop by her office Monday - Thursday during the week to pay for and pick up your tickets.
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Estate Planning Workshop
with Ray Lanham
Sunday, October 7
11:15 am
Commons Room
FIRST Monthly Elderberries Lunch Bunch
Tuesday, October 23
12 noon
Commons Room
Fall Festival for Children
Wednesday, October 24
5:00 pm
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ELDERBERRIES EVENTS (FOR 50+)
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ARE YOU 50+?
Here are some
Elderberries Events
that might interest you. Save the date(s) on your calendar.
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Greenville Drive Baseball
Saturday, August 18
7:05 pm
Transportation will be available
Covered Dish Supper at Biggerstaff Retreat
Friday, September 28
5 pm - hors d'oeuvres
6:30 pm - supper
Transportation will be available
The Lettermen in Concert
Sunday, October 14
7 pm
Cost: $37 per ticket
TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE NOW!
Transportation will be available
Monthly "Lunch Bunch" Gathering
beginning on Tuesday, October 23
(4th Tuesday of each month)
12 noon
Commons Room
PLEASE NOTE:
It has been reported that a few of you have made reservations for Elderberries events online, but for some reason, they didn't make it through. Going forward, if you do not receive an email confirmation (in a reasonable time) that your reservation has been received, please resubmit your reservation, or contact Marla Fuller at mfuller@smumcsc.org to get your name on our list.
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United Methodists Stand for . . .
the dignity of all people
climate justice
racial justice
nonproliferation of weapons
migrants and refugees
eradicating poverty
education for all
maternal and child health
economic justice
gun violence prevention
criminal justice reform
fair trade
sustainability
women and children
environmental justice
LGBTQ rights
healthy food for all
civil rights
domestic violence prevention
addiction care
mental health
human trafficking prevention
abolishing the death penalty
living wages
worker justice
clean water
voting rights
peace with justice
and AIDS-free world
multilateralism
human rights
health care
JUSTICE
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FOR YOUR INFORMATION . . .
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A Warm Welcome to Bob and Betty Loftin
We welcome new disciples to Saint Mark,
Bob and Betty Loftin, who officially joined us on Sunday, August 5 during the Traditional Service. They come to us by transfer of membership from Woodland United Methodist Church in Rock Hill, SC.
They recently celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary and to commemorate this milestone in their lives, they provided 66 beautiful red roses that adorned our sanctuary this past Sunday.
When you see them, please extend a warm Saint Mark welcome!
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A Note from our Church Council Chair
Pastor Todd was recently nominated to participate in the Royce and Jane Reynolds Program in Church Leadership. (Click here to learn more about the program). He was accepted into the program with a scholarship that will cover the cost of the program (over $12,000.00). This is truly an honor for Pastor Todd and for Saint Mark UMC! The Reynolds Program is a continuing education opportunity that will help Pastor Todd as he seeks to lead Saint Mark forward. He will need to be gone on the following dates to participate in the program (August 13-16, 2018; November 5-8, 2018; February 4-7, 2019; and May 6-8, 2019).
Thank you for joining me in supporting Pastor Todd as he seeks to grow as a church leader.
May God bless you,
Kellye Rembert
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ARE YOU MISSING YOUR
READING GLASSES??
We have been accumulating numerous pairs of glasses that have been found in various locations around the church. If you are missing your glasses, stop by the church office to see if we happen to have yours. Look on the counter to the left as you enter the office.
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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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