Worship Schedule
8:30 AM English Worship Service
10:00 AM English Worship Service
12:00 PM Spanish Worship Service
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Sunday School Teachers Needed!
Do you love children? Do you love God? If you answered yes to both of these, then you qualify to be a St. Mark's Sunday School teacher! We've had several changes this summer, so our Sunday School needs more teachers when we resume on September 15. In addition to staff changes, such as moving, we are starting a weekly class for 2 and 3 year olds. Each of our classes should have at least two teachers in the room each week, therefore, we are looking for at least five new teachers for our four children's classes, ages 2 - 6th grade. Lessons are provided. We also need at least one weekly administration volunteer to visit each class and collect offering and attendance. If you're interested in learning more about how you can be a part of our Children's Sunday School, please contact Harriet Latta at
stmarkssundayschool@gmail.com
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Gifts of Hope—Together we make a difference
Thank you for supporting Gifts of Hope during our 2018 Advent campaign in which we raised $119,038.00 from online giving and from congregation members across the Synod, including $2,500.00 from members of St. Mark’s. These funds have been distributed to our 19 beneficiary organizations to support their work in our community. Thanks to the volunteers who present this alternative gift-giving option to your congregation.
You support helps the elderly, adults, and children served by our ten social-service organizations, four ministries, three international synods, and two church camps. These agencies work with people in and recently released from prison, those who want to improve their lives, those who need help with transportation, housing, school supplies, job-readiness, clothing, food, medications, wellness, and relief from homelessness. Your support helps those who are discerning God’s call and answering that call. Your support helps kids go to camp and enjoy activities with other children. Your support helps people outside our borders: creating businesses, at children’s orphanages, providing pastoral support, and aiding church building repair.
Our gifts are available year-round—not just during the Christmas season—via our website:
giftsofhopedc.org
. We are a faith community helping each other and making our community stronger
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Thank you for providing hope for today and hope for tomorrow.
Carolyn Sowinski, Director
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Connecting with Community
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Despite the success of the Postal Carriers Food Drive in May, ECHO food supplies are being depleted. With no formal drives scheduled for August, we are asking our community to help their neighbors in need by donating food and personal hygiene supplies this summer to help ECHO get through its most difficult season. The food pantry especially needs 2-pound bags of flour, sugar, and rice as well as vegetable oil, syrup, deodorant, child size toothbrushes, and detergent. The Clothing Department needs small and medium men’s clothing, as well as summer clothing and tennis shoes for children. ECHO, at 7205 Old Keene Mill Road, is open on non-holiday weekdays from 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM, and on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday evenings from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM. Receipts are happily given.
Summer at ECHO is all about Back to School! ECHO will be distributing more than 1200 backpacks filled with school supplies for children from families who are experiencing financial difficulty. You can help this vital program by donating school supplies or by signing up to help organize and pack the grade-appropriate supplies into backpacks. Since physical space is limited, the number of volunteers per session is limited, too. Sign up to help once or many times. See
www.echo-in
c.org
for information on how to register. Donations needed now are: (only new items, please) backpacks, 3-ring binders (1”, 1-1/2”, or 2”), paper pocket folders, spiral notebooks, wide-ruled composition books, 3” x 5” lined index cards, pointed-tip scissors, #2 pencils, pink pearl erasers, and more things listed on ECHO’s website under Donate Goods/School Supplies.
ECHO needs some volunteers who have specialized skills and interests. A volunteer who understands financial grants and who could spend a few hours a month helping our Grants Committee search for and apply would be most welcome. ECHO also needs a person who would be interested in preserving and documenting ECHO’s history. There are many photos, awards, newspaper articles, and original documents going back 50 years that a historian and/or archivist could help organize or use to write a narrative. We always need E-bay users who can to sell ECHO’s donated items that are not useful to our clients, but that can provide funds for ECHO to give emergency financial assistance. Find out more about volunteering at
www.echo-inc.org
, or send an e-mail to
volunteercoordinator@echo-inc.org
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Communion Cards.
Please don’t forget to fill out a communion card each time you
worship
. Cards are located in the pew racks. If your address has changed, you can include that information so the church office can update your records. In addition, use of the card allows the church office to enter your communion and attendance in the official church records. Thank you.
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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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