The Remarks

Wednesday, January 24, 2024

This Sunday, January 28, 2024

Rev. Andy Peabody preaching

Dinner begins at 5:30 PM.

Program begins at 6:00 PM.

January 24 Program

Meet Madi Dunn

January 31 Program

Eddie Gammill and Filmmaker, Sofia

Wednesday Afternoon Book Study

with Rev. Andy



Hope is Here!

Starting in February 2024

Joyful and daunting opportunities to live into God's dream of justice and beloved community are compelling and available. Hope, says Luther Smith Jr., is essential to the needed personal and social transformations that prepare us for such sacred opportunities. Yet genuine hope is often confused as merely wish fulfillment, optimism, or perceiving better tomorrows. In Hope Is Here! Smith describes how we truly perceive and join "the work of hope" enlivening us to a life that is oriented toward immediate and future experiences of personal fulfillment, justice, and beloved community. Interpreting five spiritual practices for individuals and congregations to experience the power of hope, this book prepares us to engage racism, mass incarceration, environmental crises, divisive politics, and indifference that imperil justice and beloved community. It delivers the inner resources necessary to work for change through its interpretation of hope.

Order your book from your favorite bookstore or click here to order from Amazon.

Celebration of Life: Dr. Jesse Peel

Saturday, January 27, 2024

Join us this Saturday in the sanctuary for a service celebrating the life of Dr. Jesse Peel. The celebration begins at 1:15 PM with a preservice concert with pianist, Brad Collier. The service starts at 2 PM with musical selections from our own Saint Mark Chancel Choir and the Atlanta Gay Men's Chorus.

2024 Commitment to Saint Mark

Click on the image above to make your 2024 Commitment to Saint Mark.

If you need help setting up, confirming, or managing your

electronic donations, please contact Deana Hilton

at dhilton@stmarkumc.org or 404-873-2636, ext. 14. 

Tuesday Office Volunteer Needed

Our Tuesday Church Office Volunteer is retiring. If you've ever had an interest in working in the Saint Mark Office, love to help others, want to hang out with Deana, Robert, and Pastor Carolyn during the weekday... now is your chance.

The current position we need filled is a church office volunteer who is able to work from 10 - 3 or 4 on Tuesdays. To find out more, please contact Robert Gilleo at RJGilleo@stmarkumc.org for more details or to sign-up.

UMCOR Recovery Project

Have you got anyone in your church or community interested in helping with the 2023 tornado rebuilding in Griffin or West Point? We are an active UMCOR recovery project helping uninsured elderly folk in those communities rebuild, & are currently scheduling individuals and work teams. Perhaps you saw some of our efforts in the news: https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/homeowners-spalding-county-tornado/85-f5f9d374-781b-4504-ae96-90932b5245a9  

See details & register at https://www.ngumc.org/longtermrecovery to get your church into action!

During winter quarter we are also preparing for our next disasters as tornado season is here. Who represents your church in local disaster response or may be available to network with us? We'll be offering Early Response Team training classes this quarter as no church can do this alone & we do best when we gather a number of churches together. This is a foundational way to be active in our UMCOR network and to be ready if a tornado hits your district & we work together in ministry.

Thanks for your consideration! Don't hesitate to reach out to me if I can assist you with your mission or if you have a great church mission story of 2024 to share!

Join us in current tornado recovery efforts! https://www.ngumc.org/newsdetail/rebuilding-hope-mission-teams-needed-in-griffin-and-west-point-18183278

Social Justice Corner

Our Social Justice Committee represents Saint Mark on the Georgia Interfaith Alliance for Gun Safety (GIAGS), led by former pastor Jimmy Moor. That organization has recently joined a larger coalition which includes both religious and secular organizations, the Georgia Majority for Gun Safety.

Join Saint Mark Social Justice Committee Members at:

Moms Demand Action Rally at the GA Capitol

Wednesday, February 28 | 8:30 AM

Central Presbyterian Church (free parking provided)

201 Washington St SW Atlanta, GA 30303

Please join us for our 2024 Advocacy Day! We, along with several of our statewide community partner groups, will be going to the Capitol to meet with legislators and advocate for gun safety legislation to make our communities safer.

Tithes & Offerings

Your generosity allows us to love, accept and serve the people of our community. 

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Disciple II

Tuesdays | Zoom | 6:00 PM

Vespers

Wednesdays | Chapel | 6:30 PM

Young Adult Book and Bible Study

Wednesdays | Room 201 | 6:30 PM

Four Quartets Study

Wednesdays | Room 205 | 6:30 PM

Fast Track Disciple I – New Testament

Wednesdays | Room 111 | 6:30 PM

Finance Visioning Taskforce

Wednesday, January 24 | Zoom Meeting | 6:15 PM

Celebration of Life: Dr. Jesse Peel

Saturday, January 27 | Sanctuary | 2:00 PM

New Member Class Session 2 of 2

Sunday, January 28 | Wade Hall | 10:00 AM

Souper Chili Cookoff

Sunday, February 11 | Wade Hall | 10:00 AM

Cabaret with Clint Clark-Duke

Wednesday, February 28 | Wade Hall | 6:30 PM

Blood Drive

Sunday, March 3 | Outside on Peachtree | 10 AM - 1 PM

As a United Methodist Church we are proud to be a congregation with open hearts, open minds, and open doors. We strive to be a congregation that embodies God’s absolute love and hospitality, proclaiming Jesus as our savior and as our model of the ultimate embodiment of God’s love. We believe that all persons are of sacred worth and dignity as part of God’s good creation. Saint Mark United Methodist Church welcomes all persons into the full life and ministry of our congregation, regardless of race, culture, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, family, or socioeconomic status, physical or mental ability, or faith history.

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