For your thought:
"Very truly, I tell you, when you were younger, you used to fasten your own belt and to go wherever you wished. But when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will fasten a belt around you and take you where you do not wish to go."
-- John 21-18
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SAINT MARK'S MISSION & OUTREACH |
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Eastertide Greetings from the Staff of St. Mark's |
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Pictured from left to right: (Back Row: Deacon David Martin, Jennifer Lind, Tricia Morton, and Leo C' de Baca. Front row: Mother Sylvia Miller-Mutia, Erin Cook, and Father Christopher McLaren. Not pictured: Jeremy Wirths). |
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YouTube Added to Virtual-Offerings Options |
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We are excited to announce that all will have the option to attend virtual services on either Facebook Live or YouTube.
Our YouTube videos will stay accessible long after the videos have aired, so you may watch (or re-watch) a liturgy anytime on YouTube here.
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Annual Plant Sale Returns to St. Mark's |
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Thursday, May 5, 1-5 p.m.
Friday, May 6, 1-5 p.m.
Sunday, May 8 (before and after Sunday Worship)
Once again, St. Mark’s is partnering with East Central Ministries (ECM) to sell vegetable, herb and flowering plants for your spring garden.
Between 1 and 5 p.m. Thursday, May 5 and Friday, May 6, we will be selling petunia pots, herbs, tomatoes and peppers in the narthex. We’ll take a break on Saturday and then come back Sunday morning, May 8, Mother’s Day. Come by before or after worship on Sunday.
The proceeds this year will be shared between ECM, whose greenhouse staff grows these healthy plants from seed, right on the Mother Road, and ABQ FaithWorks, the nonprofit funded by 12 Nob Hill churches, including St. Mark’s, to provide support to the homeless population and newly arrived asylum seekers.
ECM works in the International District at Central and Virginia, helping folks with health care, education and housing. ABQ FaithWorks provides food, transportation and housing and job referrals to asylum seekers awaiting court appearances in Albuquerque and unhoused families and individuals who are getting back on their feet. In past years, we have raised about $1,000 for each organization.
If you want to help sell plants on any of those three days, email Mary Beth Libbey (email here) and tell her when you can work. She also needs help picking up plants Thursday morning, May 5.
Cash or checks only.
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Offering: Wendell Berry Class |
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Once again, Don DeNoon and Father Christopher are offering a Zoom class. This time the subject will be Wendell Berry, a prolific writer of poetry, novels, essays and short stories. Interested persons may sign up for either the morning or evening sessions on April 26, May 3 and May 10 (10 a.m. and 6 p.m. MDT). Poems selected from Berry’s book, A Timbered Choir, will be studied the first two Tuesdays. The third week one short story found in his book, Fidelity, will be the topic for discussion. All study materials will be emailed to everyone signing up for the Wendell Berry class.
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Keep Those Clothing Donations Coming |
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A reminder that St. Mark’s is still collecting men’s small and medium travel clothes for asylum seekers arriving here by bus from El Paso’s Annunciation House shelter.
The Albuquerque Asylum Seekers Welcome group is an interfaith effort to assist asylum seekers who have been admitted to the United States at our southern border. They are bused here on their way to sponsoring families elsewhere in the country. So far this year, this group has welcomed a half-dozen buses of about 50 people each. They stay here in a motel for a few days while they are checked for COVID-19. The volunteers provide them with clothes and meals while they stay here and help translate for them as they board a plane, train or bus for their ultimate destination.
The clothes you donate go to a clothes bank at Second Presbyterian Church at Lomas and Edith where they are organized and then taken to the motel where the travelers are staying. They get a change of clothes and hot meals as long as they stay, usually only a few days.
The box for donations is in the narthex. We are focusing on men’s clothes because there is a shortage of those donated items, especially in smaller sizes.
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Experience Franz Joseph Haydn’s The Creation
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St. Mark’s goes to the Lensic
Sunday May 1st 3pm Haydn’s The Creation
Join us for an all-parish outing to the Lensic Performing Arts Center in Santa Fe, for the Orchestra Season Finale of Haydn’s The Creation May 1st 3pm performed by Santa Fe Pro Musica Orchestra and Polyphony: Voices of New Mexico, Maxine Thévenot, artistic director. Subsidized tickets are available. Email our Director of Music Jeremy Wirths, (email him here) to reserve a ticket for $40. You can also purchase your own tickets online and/or give a gift to help underwrite this St. Mark’s musical outing in the Easter season. For more information on the event go to https://lensic.org.
We hope parishioners, family and friends will enjoy this opportunity, carpool or ride the Rail Runner to Santa Fe and perhaps enjoy a casual dinner afterwards in small groups.
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Camp Stoney Registration is Open |
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Families with youth in 3rd grade to rising 12th grade:
Camp Stoney is our Episcopal Summer Camp in the Diocese of the Rio Grande, located in the mountains just outside of Santa Fe.
Members of St. Mark's are encouraged to register today as a (click on the link to register or apply):
Camp is one great way for youth from St. Mark's to forge deeper friendships.
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...By Mail (St. Mark's has a secure mailbox and is checked regularly): 431 Richmond Place NE, Albuquerque, NM 87106.
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May LGBTQ+ Holy Eucharist & Meal |
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There will be a time of fellowship and a meal following the liturgy. Food will be provided. You may bring drinks to share.
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