Everyone get excited! Mark your calendar! Sunday, August 7 is the St. Mark Picnic! The picnic will be at the Beachcrest Community Beach. Thanks to Pastor Linda we have this lovely, private beach with a covered picnic area for our use! The plan is to head out to the picnic area after the church service on August 7…
Chapter 11 and 12 of the Divine Drama Student Workbook will be covered 8/4/2011 at the Thursday Morning (10am) Pastor’s Bible Study. Everyone is welcome. Chapter 11 is titled “A New Exodus” and covers the exile and return from Babylon in Isaiah. Chapter 12 is titled “Between the Testaments” and wraps up our coverage of the Old…
For those of you who were unable to attend the National Convention of the Women of the ELCA (WELCA) in Spokane on July 14 to July 17, 2011,”previously recorded” video feeds of the convention proceedings exist on the WELCA website.
WOMEN’S STUDY — Starting September 11 during the education hour, you are invited to join other women of St. Mark in the lounge as they read and discuss “Heaven Is For Real” by Todd Burpo. This is the story of Pastor Burpo’s four-year-old son Colton’s incredible trip to heaven and back while undergoing emergency surgery. …
As of Thursday July 7th the St. Mark Community Garden has produced 58 pounds of snow peas, lettuce, chard, broccoli. The Wednesday Feed ‘n’ Weed had a small turn-out but Jessie and Angela weeded their potato rows, Ruby picked peas, Laurel worked in her raised bed and helped harvest, Gail used the weed-eater to beat…
Nine women from our congregation attended the Triennial National Convention of the “Women of the ELCA” in Spokane from July 14 to July 17, 2011. This was a good turnout from our congregation for an event across the state. A brief send-off ceremony was held during our July 10 worship service with prayers for a safe journey…
The combined team of St. Mark and Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd played their fifth softball game of the season Tuesday July 5th. The league is the Olympia Independent Church League. The weather was WONDERFUL and it was lots of fun even though we did not win. A bleacher full of fans kept the…
In anticipation of a new Pastor arriving in the next several months, we are producing a new Pictorial Directory. As much fun as it is to walk down Memory Lane via our photo wall, it is not very helpful to members and guests trying to put a name to a face. TIME TO UPDATE THE…
A new feature, “ALL POSTS” was added to the top right hand tool bar of the web-site. When you click on this menu tab, all previous posts are listed. You can scroll down the list and read previous blog entries that have left the Home page as only ten posts are carried on the Home page…
Last Wednesday, June 29th, we ate our potluck meal with the Call Committee members, and then finished weeding and hilling the potatoes. Now all 20 rows have had their first weeding and hilling. The blooms are coming on the potatoes. Our irrigation specialist Bob, placed irrigation around the peas, and they are in full bloom…