To Be and Make Disciples of
Jesus Christ
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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 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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April 15, 2018
SAINT MARK FESTIVAL SUNDAY
Sunday
Schedule
10:30 am
Saint Mark Festival Worship in the Sanctuary with Rev. Susan Leonard-Ray
12:00 noon
Saint Mark Festival UMW Luncheon
Fundraiser
4:00 pm
Wings 'n Things
5:30 pm
In His Eyes
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HERE
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Join us every day at 3:20 pm to pray for Saint Mark - our people and ministries.
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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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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
Or use our hashtag
#stmarkumc and post your photos on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram.
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Interested in LGBTQ+ Inclusion?
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Prayer Focus for This Week
Pray for our upcoming Saint Mark Festival, as we celebrate together, in one service, our "oneness" and unity as a Body of Jesus Christ. Pray for Rev. Susan Leonard-Ray as she brings our message. Pray for the Saint Mark UMW as they prepare our meal. Pray for a special outpouring of God's Spirit on our celebrations!
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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.
Click here
to submit your request to Pastor Todd Davis.
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Annual Saint Mark Festival
THIS Sunday, April 22
ONE Combined Service at 10:30 am
Sanctuary
bringing the message
Rev. Susan Leonard Ray
"We Are One"
THERE WILL BE
NO SUNDAY SCHOOL
THIS WEEK!
Come celebrate with us!!!
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An exciting announcement, Moving Forward at Saint Mark, will be made during the Saint Mark Festival Worship Service THIS Sunday, April 22. You certainly won't want to miss it! However if you can't be with us on Sunday morning, be on the look out for the announcement in your mailbox later next week.
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Saint Mark Parents, Enjoy a "Parents' Night Out"
(Sponsored by the Saint Mark Child Development Center)
Friday, April 20
5:30 - 9:30 pm
For Children, infants up to 12 years old
Cost: $10 per hour for one child
$15 per hour for two children
You may pay by the hour.
Click here for more information or to make your reservation.
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Help Us Beautify the Church Property
This Saturday, April 21
9 am
The mulch has already been delivered. Bring your wheel barrow, pitch fork, rake and work gloves this Saturday and help us to spread the mulch in our natural areas. For more information,
click here to contact Joe James.
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Are You 50+?
Hagood Mill
Music in the Mountains Series
- If you are driving to Hagood Mill this Saturday, no reservation is needed. Meet the group at 10 am at the water-powered gristmill. Once we get there and check in and say "hello," you are welcome to spend as much time you want to at Hagood Mills, unless you plan to join us for lunch (see below)
- If you are riding the bus, meet at the church parking lot (across from the sanctuary) by 9:30 am.
- There is still room on the bus, so click here to contact Marla Fuller if you would like to reserve a seat. The cost will be $5 per person.
- We will eat at Aunt Sue's Restaurant at 1:30 pm. If you are riding the bus, you already have a lunch reservation and we will leave Hagood Mills at 1:00 pm. If you are not riding the bus, but want to join us for lunch, click here to make your lunch reservation with Marla Fuller.
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Saint Mark UMW Invites You to Bake
Kairos Cookies
for Leath Correctional Institution
The next Kairos weekend for the women at Leath Correctional Institution (in Greenwood) will be April 26 - 29. Would you be willing to bake cookies for this important and life-changing weekend? Please bring your cookies and encouraging letters to the church office by this coming Monday, April 23.
Click here for special instructions about how to prepare and package the cookies. Thank you for caring!
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MENU
Egg Casserole
Pancakes
Link and Patty Sausages
Bacon
Orange Juice
Coffee (and other beverages)
COST
Adults -
$7
Children under 12 -
$3
Children under 3 -
FREE
There will be over 50 door prizes with 4 drawings throughout the morning! You don't have to be present to get your prize. Your ticket will be used for the drawing.
Proceeds from this fundraiser go to provide much needed glasses for children and adults. Each year, over the past six years, 100 pairs of glasses were given, first to children, then to adults. Lions Club will generously tithe their proceeds back to Saint Mark.
For more information, click here to contact Dean Garland.
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An Opportunity to Serve
Wilderness Way Girls' Camp
Thrift Store
Tuesday, May 1 and Thursday, May 10
9 am - 12 noon
Save the dates for a new opportunity for active discipleship, right here in Seneca! We are planning to hold two work-days (actually half days!) at the
Wilderness Way Girls' Camp School Thrift Store in Seneca. After serving on Tuesday, May 1 and Thursday, May 10 from 9 am - 12 noon, we will enjoy lunch together at a nearby restaurant.
We would like to get a team of 8-10 folks who will take on a variety of tasks from
sorting clothing, to moving furniture, to dusting or tidying shelves, to testing appliances, all in an effort to help the store increase sales, which helps fund the wonderful programs at the Wilderness Way Girls' Camp School. You will hear more about the school and have an opportunity to sign up for one or both of the work days at the Saint Mark Festival Luncheon on Sunday, April 22nd. Training will be provided, and there are jobs available for men and women, young and old, in great shape or physically challenged!
Click here to contact Jane Harlin at if you have questions or if you just can't wait to sign up!
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This very special service of worship will feature the Children's Choir, Wings for the Lord (youth), In His Eyes (youth), Saint Mark Ringers (bell choir), Celebration Worship Team, Gospel Choir and the Chancel Choir.
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Keep the Good Going, Pass it On
We committed ourselves to journey through the season of Lent, and we wore purple plastic bracelets around our wrists. These bracelets reminded us who we are and helped us to be connected as the people of Saint Mark. These bracelets urged us to do those things that point to God and to set aside those things that so easily distract. We committed to wear these bracelets for forty days, and now we have the opportunity to pass them on.
In worship on May 6, you will have the opportunity to give back your bracelet, we will bless them, and then we will send them to a congregation in South Africa where a friend of Pastor Shawna is serving as the Associate Pastor. They will distribute the bracelets to their people in their worship as reminders to them of their identity as beloved children of God, to live as disciples, and that despite living with an ocean between us we are connected as the body of Christ and committed to pray for one another.
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Elderberries is sponsoring a 4-hour class to help you use your electronic devices more effectively. Your facilitators will be our own Jim Redmond and Anna Baldwin. Click here to register online. If you have further questions, click here to contact Marla Fuller, or call her at the church office (864) 882-2603.
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The Saint Mark Elderberries (a ministry for seniors 50+) invites you to a community-wide workshop for family caregivers who have loved ones with dementia. If you, or someone you know, is caring for someone with dementia, please make them aware of this event.
Click here to register or to get more information.
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Pentecost and Confirmation Sunday
Sunday, May 20
Estate Planning Event
Sunday, May 20
12:30 pm Commons Room
Graduate Sunday
Sunday, May 27
Child Development Center
Yard Sale
Wings for the Lord Choir Tour
June 16 - 23
Wings for the Lord
Homecoming Concert
Sunday, June 24 Sunday School at 9 am
One Service at 10:00 am
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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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Day Trip to Hagood Mill
Greater Clemson Music Festival
and Pickens County Sesquicentennial
138 Hagood Mill Road
Pickens, SC 29671
Saturday, April 21
Click here for more information
Need Help With Your Electronic Devices?
Saturday, May 19
10 - 2 pm (lunch included)
"A Walk in My Shoes"
Virtual Alzheimer's Tour
Thursday, June 7
6 pm
(Includes a light supper)
Square Dancing at Oconee State Park
Friday, June 22
Supper at Puerto Nuevo Mexican & Seafood Restaurant in West Union
6 pm
Square Dancing
8 - 10 pm
Tailgate at The Gorge
Saturday, July 28
More details to come . . .
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"Much has been accomplished in terms of race relations in The United Methodist Church in the past 50 years, but many say there is always more work to be done."
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Foothills Chorale Spring Concert
Sunday, May 6
3:00 pm
Trinity Baptist Church in Seneca
The Foothills Chorale will present Franz Shubert's
Mass in G, Joseph Haydn's
Little Organ Mass, and other works for an exciting and diverse afternoon musical performance.
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A Set of Stoles for
Pastor Shawna
If you haven't already done so, it isn't too late to contribute toward the purchase of a set of four stoles for Pastor Shawna in recognition of the completion of her journey to Ordination as an Elder in Full Connection in the United Methodist Church at our annual conference the first week of June.
Click here to fill out a form to indicate the amount you will contribute. We would like to receive your contribution by in the church office by no later than Monday, April 30.
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Celebrating the Ministry of Rev. Susan Leonard-Ray
Rev. Susan Leonard-Ray has faithfully served as our District Superintendent for the last eight years, and we at Saint Mark have been the beneficiaries of her God-given gifts and graces. She has been appointed to serve as pastor at Bethel UMC in Charleston, SC. She will be missed.
You have the opportunity to show your appreciation for her leadership and ministry by making a contribution toward a "love offering" that will be given to Rev. Leonard-Ray at a reception later in May. If you would like to contribute, please make your check out to
"Saint Mark UMC" with
"Leonard-Ray gift" in the "for" line, and drop it by the church office by no later than
Tuesday, May 8.
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The Saint Mark Library Team
Is Looking
for Short Term Volunteers
Our Library Team is looking for a few volunteers to help on one or both of our Library Work Days, Tuesdays May 15 and 22 at 4:30 pm. Some of the ways you can help include:
- Sort donated books and check for suitability to put on the shelves
- Check our donated books for duplicates
- Correct some of our book labels
- Glue card pockets inside of books
- Stamp the card pockets
If you are interested in helping, click here to contact Marla Fuller.
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Welcome Our New Custodian Rusty Summerville
We are pleased to introduce our new custodian, Rusty Summerville. Originally from Texas, he now lives in the Utica community. His responsibilities are three-fold: 1) Church custodian, 2) Child Development Center custodian and 3) part-time maintenance for the Saint Mark Trustees. Rusty has a quick wit, and is definitely a "people-person." When you see him around the building, please extend to him a warm Saint Mark welcome . . . and ask him about living on Wrong Road!
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To Stay in Touch . . .
Holly Parrot will be moving to Georgia, now that her house has been sold. If you would like to stay in touch with her, you may reach her at this address:
Holly Parrott
4939 Highway 19 S
Zebulon, GA 30295
Please be in prayer for Holly and for her family as they discern the best living situation for her.
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Epworth is OUR Ministry!
Did you know that in the last year Epworth Children's Home gave 184 children a safe and loving place to call home? Each of these children had this opportunity because people and church's like us embrace and provide for this wonderful ministry for the children and families in South Carolina. We will participate in the annual Mother's Day Offering on
Sunday, May 13, 2018, to benefit the children who call Epworth home. Please be in prayerful consideration of what God is calling you to give to this valuable and life changing ministry.
Click here for more information about Epworth Children's Home.
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UMC Abundant Health Initiative
As United Methodists, we are committed to creating abundant health for all - a global connection striving for mental, physical and spiritual well-being. Lifesaving health ministries are enriching the lives of people around the world, from South America to Africa, from India to the Philippines and the U.S.
UMCOR Health Kits cost $12 each, so the South Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church needs your help to raise at total of $122,400 by Tuesday, May 15. Click here to watch a short video about the initiative.
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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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