For your thought:
Let your ways be known upon earth,
your saving health among all nations.
-- Psalm 67:2
Dates to remember:
- Sunday, May 22nd - Share & Care Sunday (11:15-12:15)
- Sunday, May 29th - Pancakes & Fellowship (11:00-12:15)
- Monday, May 30th - Memorial Day (offices closed)
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Sunday, June 5th - The Feast of Pentecost (wear red to church that Sunday)
- Sunday, June 5 & 12 - Summer of Conversation Training (11:15-12:15)
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SAINT MARK'S MISSION & OUTREACH |
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This Sunday: Share and Care Sunday |
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Share and Care Sunday, May 22
11:15AM-Noon
The 4th Sunday of each month our Formation Groups for all ages are devoted to service projects and conversations. On May 22 - this Sunday, we invite you to join:
Godly Play (ages 2+) We'll read stories and assemble "Manna Bags" for our unhoused neighbors.
Holy Troublemakers (ages 9+) - We'll make casseroles for our Take Them a Meal ministry.
Inquirers (ages 16+) - Responding to Needs of Unhoused Neighbors with Dawn Adkins.
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In the course of our life-long spiritual journey, there are various doorways of invitation into deeper commitment. Baptism is the doorway into full participation in the universal life and family of the Church.
In the Sacrament of Baptism, we are incorporated as full members of the Body of Christ. People may be initiated into Christ’s Body through the Sacrament of Baptism at any age or stage in life. Baptism may be celebrated at any time, but is traditionally reserved for one of four baptismal feast days: Easter March/April), Pentecost (May/June), All Saints (November), and Baptism of our Lord (January).
The upcoming date for Baptism at St. Mark’s is Pentecost on June 5th. The next date will be: November 6th on All Saints.
Please let us know (email us here) your -- name/name of child, phone number and email -- if you would like to be baptized or if you would like your child to be baptized.
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Summer of Conversation 2022 Coming in June |
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One of the core values of St. Mark’s is to be a deeply relational church. One of the ways we make this possible in the life of the community of St. Mark’s is to become more intentional about building relationships and listening more deeply to one another. To this end, we are initiating A Summer of Conversation at St. Mark’s. The concept is simple: Encourage conversations among our members that help people get to know one another, talk about why St. Mark’s is important to them and to get a sense for where they sense God at work in them and the congregation.
This is an All-Parish initiative and will include our new Summer of Conversation 2022 Bingo Game. More details to come in upcoming Messenger newsletters.
Join us for Summer of Conversation Training Sessions with Fr. Christopher
Summer of Conversation Training:
Sundays June 5, 12 Parish Hall 11:15-12:15
Additional Evening Trainings TBA
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Coming June 3rd: New All-Media Art Exhibit |
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Coming Friday, June 3rd: New All-Media Art Exhibit in the Sacred Arts Gallery (our Parish Hall). St. Mark's retains 20% of every artwork sold. You won't want to miss it! |
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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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...By Mail (St. Mark's has a secure mailbox and is checked regularly): 431 Richmond Place NE, Albuquerque, NM 87106.
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Pentecost "Pilgrimage in Place" |
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The NM Pilgrimage for Unity invites you to participate in our third annual "Pentecost Pilgrimage in Place", in solidarity with ecumenical friends in the Ukraine. Design your own pilgrimage route.
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Understanding Homelessness |
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Poverty Simulation Session: If you were dealt this hand – a single parent, low-paying job and a hospitalization - what would you do? ABQ FaithWorks invites you to experience this role for a couple of hours and open your eyes to see homelessness differently! Thursday, June 30, 1:00-3:00 PM at Congregation Albert. Email events@abqfaithworks.org to sign up. There are only 100 spaces. Please see the flyer for more information.
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