At St. Mark, we are on an alternative timeframe for our Lenten journey from ‘Ashes to Easter’. Today we celebrated Palm Sunday. This was Jesus’s triumphant entry into Jerusalem on the back of a colt (donkey). Pastor Beth talked of Luke’s Gospel, 19:28-40, not naming the two disciples who were sent to find a colt…
All are welcome to the Wednesday Evening Soup Suppers and Lenten Worship. Soup is served at 5:45pm in the Parish Hall and the “Open My Life” service begins at 6:30pm in the sanctuary. Each week, members of St. Mark will offer reflections on what it means to Open their Lives to God. Our preachers…
This Lenten Sunday was a service of Healing, Forgiveness and Reconciliation. As we journey through the season of Lent, we trust in the healing power of God’s love. As a symbol of God’s healing love, when we went forward for communion, we were anointed with oil with the sign of the cross on our forehead.…
Pastor Beth asks us, in this sermon, to spend this Lent deliberately fostering our relationship with God. For some that is giving something up – something that is a barrier to our relationship with God. Pastor Beth encourages us to also add things that foster our relationship with God; for some that might be helping…
Ron was born and grew up in Tracy, MN. When he was 18, he attended Mankato State College for two years, then transferred to Augustana University, a private college affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church, in Sioux Falls, S.D. He attended there from 1954 to 1956. Ron then attended graduate school at Iowa State University…
Through scripture and music, the message of Transfiguration was vividly portrayed at St. Mark on Sunday February 7. When Jesus went up to the mountain to pray, he took disciples with him to witness. What they saw and heard will forever be remembered… “the appearance of his face changed and his clothes became dazzling white”. God’s voice is heard from…
St. Mark has historically been blessed with many and varied musicians; vocalists, instrumentalists, soloists and group ensembles. On Sunday, January 31, we were blessed to have two outstanding musical offerings. Luna S played her ukulele and sang an original arrangement of “This Little Light of Mine”. We were all pleasantly surprised by her musical offering…
New Member Wilbur F was born in 1923 and raised in San Jose, CA. He attended San Jose college, but WW11 interrupted his college plans and he went instead to work as a data processing supervisor for the shipyards. After the war, Wilbur began his career with computers in the IBM department at Henry J.…
Do you see yourself as defined by your profession or what you do/did for a living? Or do you see yourself as something more…perhaps loving, kind and wise? Pastor Beth’s son figured out at an early age something that a lot of adults haven’t. That is…how we live our lives is different from our job.…
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, The “Grace Gathering” will be held in partnership with the 2016 ELCA Churchwide Assembly in New Orleans Aug. 10-13, 2016. Reserve your spot today! The gathering will bring people together from across the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Participants will see the church in action, worship with Churchwide Assembly…