April 26, 2024

Adult Formation will be looking at the Book of Revelation during April. The Adult Formation session will meet April 14, 21 & 28 beginning at 9:30 a.m. in the parish hall. These sessions will also be livestreamed and recorded.

Children's Formation will continue working on their Apostles' Creed project. Children's Formation gathers at 10:30 a.m. in the Children's Formation area. Children return to the service around the time of the peace.

Tuesday April 30. We will gather at 6:30 p.m., note the change of time, at Gogi Korean BBQ at 1138 Bethel Road, near the Refectory.

This is the last of the Tour of Asia dinners.

Saint Mark’s Endowment Fund investments are held at the Columbus Foundation. The Endowment Fund Trustees meet at least twice a year to review those investments. 

The next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, May 1, 2024, at 7:00 p.m. in the Canterbury Center and via Zoom. Contact person: Dot Yeager, dot-yeager@columbus.rr.com

Saint Mark’s will host the 2024 Culture & Artisans Fair from 10 am to 3 pm, on Saturday, May 4, on the church lawn. 

We continue to partner with CRIS (Community Refugee and Immigration Services) and the City of Upper Arlington Community Relations Committee to showcase the artistic creations of individuals new to the United States. 

You can help with this event while enjoying a fun day of food, crafts and music. Just go to the Fair SignUp Genius page click the link on the Saint Mark's home page, or sign-up in the Parish Hall. See you at the Fair!

The May First Sunday Program will have representatives from U.A. CARES. U.A. CARES, which stands for Community Assistance, Referral and Education Services is a program of the Upper Arlington Fire Division, which provides ongoing health assistance to Upper Arlington residents. 

Come and hear more about what is currently covered by the program and share your thoughts and ideas.

Sunday May 5 from 9:30 to 10:15 in the parish hall.

At the 10:30 am service, on May 5 Pastor Vicki will be doing a Brown Bag sermon.

The way this works is that all children and youth are invited to bring something to put in a brown bag at the front of the church.

Pastor Vicki has to use everything in the bag in her sermon.

There are a few rules:

1.    Nothing alive.

2.    Nothing sloppy or messy (put your slime in a jar before putting it in the bag)

3.    Nothing that will injure Pastor Vicki as she picks it up (like knives)

Look around, be creative and bring something for the bag.

The items put in the bag are returned after the sermon.

Sunday, May 5, the youth group will be going to Bridge Park in Dublin. We will be having lunch at the North Market and playing games at Pins.  

We need a rough head count for this evet.

Please let Pastor Vicki know (rector@saintmarkscolumbus.org) if you are planning to attend.

The St. Mark’s Outreach collection for the month May is band-aids, alcohol wipes, and Neosporin.  

Outreach wants to provide first aid kits for NNEMAP.  Please consider donating these items so we can make first aid kits for our NNEMAP families.  

If you would prefer, please donate $10.00 to Outreach and we will purchase these items.

Thank you for your continued support of NNEMAP.

From Bishop White: Discernment gatherings in April and May

April 6, 2024

Dear People of God in the Diocese of Southern Ohio,

In my first weeks as your bishop, I have been so grateful for the opportunities I have had to meet with many of you and learn about your ministries. I feel the Holy Spirit moving powerfully in our midst, and I am eager to continue learning from you so that, together, we can shape a vision for our ministry.

To jumpstart our work, I have asked Ministry Architects to facilitate six days of discernment gatherings from April 29 to May 1 and from May 6 to May 8 in locations across the diocese and on Zoom. I hope that you will attend one of the meetings so that your voice and experience can inform the future of our ministry together.

Each one-hour gathering will be led by two Ministry Architects consultants, and sessions will be capped at 15 participants to ensure everyone has a chance to be heard. By the time these gatherings are concluded, I hope that we will have gathered the wisdom of clergy, lay leaders, vestry members, staff, and church members from all parts of our diocese and all walks of life. You can find a schedule for the discernment gatherings and sign up to attend below.

I know that in the past several years, you have been asked to give your input at listening sessions and on surveys several times. I am grateful to you for your willingness to participate anew in these gatherings as we move forward into the future that God has in store for us.

I am grateful to be in ministry with you.

Faithfully,

The Rt. Rev. Kristin Uffelman White

Bishop

Discernment Gatherings

Week One

Monday April 29: Church of the Good Shepherd, Athens

Tuesday April 30: All Saints, New Albany and St. Mark’s Upper Arlington

Wednesday May 1: Procter Center 

Learn more and sign up at this link.

Week Two

Monday May 6: Redeemer, Cincinnati and Ascension & Holy Trinity, Wyoming

Tuesday May 7: Calvary, Clifton and St. Patrick’s, Lebanon

Wednesday May 8: St. Margaret’s, Trotwood and St. Patrick’s, Dublin

Learn more and sign up at this link.

Zoom

Monday April 29 at 6:30 PM (open)

Monday May 6 at 6:00 PM (clergy only)

Tuesday May 7 at 5:00 PM (youth only)

Learn more and sign up at this link.

If none of the scheduled discernment gatherings is convenient, please email Martha Whitesides to receive a survey that you may submit anonymously.

Will be held on the sidewalk in front of Saint Mark’s on Wednesdays from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. beginning on May 15.

Dorset Road will be closed on Wednesday afternoons and any cars parked there will need to be moved. Please plan on parking in the Tremont Center lot if you will be at church after noon on Wednesdays.

Saint Mark’s will be opening the building and having a hospitality table during the market, sign up if you want to help welcome people to Saint Mark's.

Pentecost is Sunday May 19.

Pentecost is one of the major feasts of the Church. It celebrates the descent of the Holy Spirit on the apostles and the beginning of the spread of the Gospel to the world.

It is the custom to wear flame colors, (red, orange and yellow) on Pentecost.

Following the 10:30 a.m. service, we will have our Pentecost Picnic. The Marksmen will be providing wonderful BBQ.

Sign up to bring sides and help with set-up and clean up.

Plan on joining in the celebration and coming back at 4 p.m. for the Canterbury Choir’s Evensong.

The Canterbury Choir will conclude its season with a service of Choral Evensong for the Day of Pentecost on Sunday May 19 at 4 p.m.

Music will include the stirring Evening Service in C by George Dyson and anthems by Nancy Hill Cobb and Drummond Wolff. Admission is free. Donations will be gratefully received in support of the Gary L. Garber Canterbury Choir Scholarship Fund, which supports choristers’ participation in Royal School of Church Music summer camps.

A reception will follow. Please join us for this beautiful and uplifting service, and be sure to invite some friends!

8:00 a.m.

Holy Eucharist, Rite I

10:30 a.m.

Holy Eucharist, Rite II