Welcome to worship today! The Chancel Choir sings a beautiful spiritual, “Hold Me, Rock Me” and PraisRing Bell Choir offers the spectacular anthem, “Grazioso.” Pastor Beth preaches on Jesus’ teachings about end times. Please have your bread and wine ready and join us for Holy Communion . God bless you as you worship! …
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Welcome to worship as we celebrate St. Francis and the Blessing of the Animals! Pastor Beth also offers a special blessing and message for our children. The sermon tackles Jesus’ conversation with the Pharisees about divorce and the blessing of children. Jesus is always concerned about the most vulnerable. The service includes Holy Communion.…
Welcome to worship on this first Sunday in the season of Advent! We light the first candle in our Advent wreath for hope and celebrate the gift of Holy Communion. As usual, there is lots of great music! Also this morning, both Pastor Eric (Children’s Time) and Pastor Beth (sermon) explore the prophet Isaiah’s prayer…
Dear Friends, Please use the link below to enjoy a “worshipful experience” created for you by Pastor Beth. It is about 12 minutes long. You can read the Gospel Lesson before viewing: John 9:1-41. Many thanks to John Martin, Terry Shaw, and Isaiah Utto-Galarneau for their musical offerings. This is a way for us to…
Dear friends, On St. Patrick’s Day, I encourage you to go outside and take a walk this afternoon or evening. Use this prayer attributed to St. Patrick as your guide. Breathe deep as you step into the next moment and pray: Christ with me Christ before me Christ behind me Christ in me Christ beneath…
Please offer this prayer as often as needed to center you in God’s grace. Lord it is night. The night is for stillness. Let us be still in the presence of God. It is night after a long day. What has been done has been done; what has not been done has not been…
Dear friends, I missed worshiping together today. Eric and I hold you in our thoughts and prayers. We are working on ways to stay connected with you. We will be in touch in the next several days about those sorts of things. So, now, I am just going to say it. This is weird. This…
Pastor Beth, Pastor Eric, and their children, Grace and Isaiah, would like to thank the people of St. Mark and the Clergy Renewal Project for an amazing sabbatical this summer. St. Mark approved a pastoral sabbatical leave which gave them the gift of time. The Clergy Renewal Project awarded St. Mark a grant which gave…
What if we took time each day during the month of November to offer a prayer of thanksgiving to God for one blessing in our lives? Chances are good that it will influence us to be more aware of all our blessings and feel more grateful. An attitude of gratitude changes hearts–especially our own.…
In today’s Gospel Lesson (Mark 4: 21-45), Jesus healed a hemmorhaging woman and Jairus’ daughter. For the sermon, Pastor Beth wrote a dramatic reading which was shared by two women in the congregation–Amy B. and Joyce B. In Pastor Beth’s creative interpretation of these stories, we dig a little deeper and see how, although life…