May 3, 2024

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.

The Evening Knitting Group will meet Monday May 13 from 6:30 - 8 p.m.

We meet in the Canterbury Center.

You can bring any project you are working on, even if it isn't a knitting project.

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!

The May Epistle is on it's way to your mailbox.

You can find it on the website too.

If you are not receiving the Epistle, please let our Office Manager, Melanie Jacobs, know at officemanager@saintmarkscolumbus.org

Sunday May 26 at the 10:30 a.m. service, the Saint Mark’s Choir will conclude its season with a special service of Choral Matins with Holy Eucharist.

Choral Matins, or sung Morning Prayer, is the morning counterpart to Choral Evensong, alternating prayers, readings and inspiring music.

8:00 a.m.

Holy Eucharist, Rite I

10:30 a.m.

Holy Eucharist, Rite II