Events
Upcoming Events
Sunday, November 10 following service.
Agenda:
Adoption of the 2025 Church Budget
Election of five (5) Congregational Council members
Election of NC Synod Assembly delegates
Read Robert Arndt, Council President's LETTER regarding the meeting.
Saturday, Dec. 14
2-3:30P
Fellowship Hall
Join for this special party to celebrate the birth of Jesus.
Games
Crafts
Cake!
Text your RSVP by Dec. 6 to: (910) 738-7641
Repeating
Events
Midweek Study
1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th Wednesdays
7-8P
Fellowship Hall
This week Wednesday, July 24 we conclude our series on the Second Reading for the coming Sunday.
We begin our new "Book Club" on August 7. We will study books that help us to deepen our faith and how to put it into action in ministry to our community and the world.
The first book is What if GOD Wrote Your Bucket List? by Jay Payleitner. We chose this book because it should be easy and fun to start our "club" with and next time will get into a deeper book.
We will read four chapters a week and then gather for coffee and conversation every 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th Wednesdays. The chapters are very short and this will last us for 13 weeks.
Wednesday, August 31 will serve as the transition to the new format and to get us started on the new book. Participants are asked to start thinking about their bucket list in general and about the more traditional things that you have on your bucket list, things you want to see or to do. We'll share them with each other on the 31st to prepare for our journey.
A sweet will be proved to enjoy with coffee. See Deb Rosenberg if you would like to purchase a book through her.
2nd Wednesday
7-8P
Fellowship Hall
Join us on the second Wednesdays of each month when we will have a Bible study provided by the Women of the ELCA (WELCA).
Please contact Deb Rosenberg, s.a.m@stmarkslnc.org for more information and to express your interest in joining.
Thursdays
10:30A-12 Noon
Fellowship Hall
Starting October 3, St. Marks will host a weekly book study.
The first book we will be reading and discussing together is What Makes You Come Alive: A Spiritual Walk with Howard Thurman by Lerita Coleman Brown.
For more information or to express your interest in joining the group, please call or text:
Kathy at 269-271-2789.
St. Mark’s Women
of the ELCA
Monthly Meeting
Attention, St. Mark’s women of the word!
We will meet the second Wednesday of each month before the Midweek Study to plan future events.
Our church will be hosting WELCA’s Fall Gathering this year on September 21, but there are other plans to make and things to organize between now and then.
All are welcome!
Past Events
VBS 2024:
Fun Was ‘Afoot’
for Kids, Helpers
Happy are the feet of those who share God’s message, and also the feet of those who deliver free lemonade to a neighbor!
“If the neighborhood didn’t know we are here before, they sure do now!” said Christian Education director and VBS coordinator Sheila Cabral following Saturday’s Vacation Bible School event, themed “Happy Are the Feet of the Messenger.”
Seven excited young folks participated in games, a Bible lesson from Cooper and his new friend Jasmine, music, and a craft. They enjoyed a hot dog lunch with homemade ice cream and all the fixings, then participated in a service project to finish up the day.
The free lemonade stand drew neighbors and a few passers-by, drawn in by the enthusiasm of the kids’ calling out “Ice cold lemonade! Free lemonade!” After a somewhat slow start, business picked up and about 20 cups of lemonade found their way to thirsty drivers and walkers.
“They were so excited when people stopped,” Robert Arndt observed. “It was hard to keep them from running out to the cars. But they did a great job and worked together to fix the cups and serve the ‘customers.’ It was nice to see them excited and enthusiastic about doing something nice for our neighbors.”
That was the whole point of the lemonade stand: to teach the kids, in a fun way, about service.