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!!!
Whom have
YOU invited to join us at
St. Mark's ?
IT'S
YARD SALE TIME AGAIN!
Saturday, August 14
WE NEED MORE “STUFF!”
Getting ready for the Annual Yard Sale,
So bring in your treasures
Sunday - Friday, 9am - noon.
Please leave donations in the
2nd - 4th Grade Classroom
(in the middle of the room, please,
not in the hallway!)
We can also use your help with
sorting on Wednesdays at 7:00pm.
For information, call Judy K.
Can you help set up? Work the Sale?
Tear down and/or clean up?
Sign-up sheets are now on the
bulletin board across from the Office.
We need your help to make this a success, so sign up now to donate
your Time and Talent!
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Body, Mind, Spirit, Voice
It takes the whole person to
Sing and Rejoice!
We are looking for more people to
provide music at the Offertory while the Choir
enjoys its summer vacation.
If you can sing or play an instrument,
share your talents with our congregation.
Sign up on the bulletin board
outside the Office.
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Kemp
School Partnership!
St. Mark’s is beginning its 8th year of a School-Church partnership with
Kemp School in Dayton. In addition to providing one-on-one tutoring to students at Kemp, we also donate much-needed supplies
for the students. Can you help?
Supplies needed include:
Book bags
School boxes
Pencil bags (with zippers)
No. 2 pencils (fat & skinny)
Crayons (boxes of 8, 16, or 24 only)
Colored pencils
Blue, black, and red pens
Pocket folders
3-ring binders (1-1/2 to 2 inches)
Wide-ruled loose leaf paper
Wide-ruled, one-subject notebooks
Portfolio-type folders with pockets
Steno or spiral notebooks
Large erasers
Blunt scissors (no points)
Rulers
Glue sticks & white Elmer’s Glue
Small calculators
Protractors & compasses
Tissues, Baby wipes
PLEASE PLACE ITEMS IN THE BOX
IN BACK OF CHURCH
THANK YOU!
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ATTENTION!
Turn all your grocery shopping trips into easy cash for Kemp School!
Just look for the Box Tops logo on hundreds of products in
almost every aisle of the store.
All you need to do is clip and put them in the box in the Narthex:
each one is worth 10˘
for Kemp School!
Products include:
Betty Crocker Dessert Mixes
General Mills & Chex Cereals
Green Giant Frozen Vegetables
Cottonelle Products
Avery Office Supplies
Ziploc & Hefty Bags
(for a complete list of participating products, ask in the Office
or go to BoxTops4Education.com)
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Dayton Episcopal
Community Garden!
Can you help?
The garden has been planted at
St. Margaret’s Church.
Our harvest will go to the
Deanery food pantry,
located at St. Andrew’s Church.
Everyone is welcome to help out with
upkeep and harvesting.
If you would like to donate time,
supplies, or money,
or need more information,
contact Maureen Boyles at mv_boyles@yahoo.com,
or call the Church Office.
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St. Mark’s Recycling Program
As you may have noticed, St. Mark’s now has a paper recycling bin. It is located across the parking lot from our Community Building.
The bin is furnished to us at no charge by the Abitibi-Bowater company, which provides 70% of the paper used for all the newspapers currently printed in the world.
Each ton of paper that is recycled saves:
> 4102 kilowatt-hours of electricity
> 60 pounds of air pollution
> 7000 gallons of water and
> 3.3 cubit yards of landfill space
In addition, St. Mark’s will receive a payment from the company each month, dependent on the amount of paper we recycle.
Accepted Items are:
* Newspapers
* Magazines
* Shopping catalogs
* Mail
* School and office papers and envelopes
Please do not include:
* Cardboard
* Cereal/soda cartons
* Food wrap/containers
* Tissue products
* Plastic or glass
Thank you for your support!
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Secretary / Bookkeeper’s Hours
Katherine
Wagner, our parish secretary / bookkeeper, is currently in the office Monday through Friday from
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM.
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·
Altar
Flowers $30
· Sanctuary Candle $7 (for two Sunday bulletins)
· Coffee Hour
If you would like something special written in the bulletin
please contact
the parish secretary the week before!
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Coffee Hour Hosts
needed for Future
Weeks!
This is a wonderful opportunity to meet & greet your church family members. If you would like more information on how to host a coffee hour please ask any Vestry Member. The sign up sheet is located on the bulletin board outside the church office.
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ST.
MARK'S SOFTBALL
Keep
up-to-date on St. Mark's softball
by visiting our web page.
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Photo
of the Month!
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Volunteers
Needed!
Volunteers are needed to take a turn in the nursery during the summer. There is a sign-up on the wall by the nursery door. The time is 10:15 until the end of the service.
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Be God’s hands in the recession: We ask your prayers for all in Ohio who are suffering job loss, hunger, foreclosure, and other distress, and for the Episcopal congregations and community partners who are working to help them weather the storm. Every dollar you contribute to the Episcopal Community Services Foundation’s annual fund this Advent will go into grants to aid the frontline ministries of Episcopal churches across this diocese to provide food, rental and utility assistance, aid to the medically uninsured, and job coaching for displaced workers like the thousands who are losing DHL jobs in Wilmington.
Here is a glimpse of the kind of people you will be helping: the Hillsboro family bringing a child with cystic fibrosis home from the hospital in winter with their home out of heating oil and their budget overwhelmed. Samaritan Outreach was able to use ECSF funds to buy a delivery of propane for that family. Or another: the working woman with no insurance who needed emergency cancer surgery and whose restaurant wages could not cover the medical bills for her co-payments. Trinity, Troy negotiated down her bills and used an ECSF grant to help pay off most, resulting in monthly payments she could afford to pay with
dignity.
Go fishing in your mail stack for the cheerful ECSF Gift of the Spirit mailer with a picture of Trinity, Hamilton’s
after-school homework club on the back, and drop a check in it. Each dollar buys at least 4 meals worth of groceries! Or visit our website at
www.ecsfsouthernohio.org and give online. Thank you! Your gifts bring hope and relief to thousands of people of all ages in need across Ohio.
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Help Needed with Lawn Mowing
We need volunteers to agree to mow our church lawn during one or more weeks from spring until fall.
If you are will to give a few hours to this important chore, please select a week (or weeks) from the list on the bulletin board just outside the church office.
One of our “veterans” will be in contact with you to provide complete information.
Many Thanks!!!
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Our
On-Line Directory is Here!
Click
on the Olan Mills logo below to get started to see the latest photos
and names of St. Mark's parishioners.
You
already know this, because you are HERE!
But just because you are not able to make it to church doesn’t mean that you can’t share in at least part of our Sunday celebration!
Our webmaster, Dave Reuter, posts on our web site each week the scripture readings for the Sunday, the homily and the announcements. Also, if you would like some music to accompany your private worship time, you can visit
http://www.cyberhymnal.org/ which allows you to choose, listen to, and learn about over 5400 hymns.
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The Baptismal Covenant
(The Book of Common Prayer, pages 304-5)
Will you continue in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in the prayers?
Will you persevere in resisting evil, and, whenever you fall into sin, repent and return to the Lord?
Will you proclaim by word and example the Good News of God in Christ?
Will you seek and serve Christ in all persons, loving your neighbor as yourself?
Will you strive for justice and peace among all people, and respect the dignity of every human being?
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St. Mark’s Focused Outreach Opportunities
>> Kemp
School Community Project <<
>>
Canterbury Court <<
>>
CARE House <<
Contact
Father Mike or Jim Rudd to learn how you can get involved! Together we can make a difference.
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“My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself; and the fact that I think that I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you. And I hope that I have that desire in all that I am doing. I hope that I will never do anything apart fro that desire. And I known that, if I do this, you will lead me by the right road though I may know nothing about it. Therefore I will trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.”
Thomas Merton, Thoughts in
Solitude
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Need
to know what's happening this month or next at St Mark's??? Then click HERE!
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Weekly
Scripture Readings
The
Revised Common
Lectionary, which lists all of the
upcoming reading for the year is now listed on our web site.
From the Main Menu, go to Schedules, Scripture Readings, and then
select the appropriate year of interest. ...Or simply click HERE!
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Building
and Grounds Information !!!
When you leave our buildings during the week,
please be sure to close windows and doors and turn off the lights.
We have had several occasions lately when we have come in early in the morning to find stairway lights on, the breezeway lights on, a window open, and even the church office door open.
Thank you for your increased awareness of our need to keep our facilities --
and the people who use them -- secure!
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"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand."
-- Woodrow Wilson
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What is the "Rector's Discretionary Fund" anyway?
On the 4th Sunday of each month (e.g. next Sunday, October 24), the Plate Offering (loose bills and coins) is deposited in the Rector's Discretionary Fund. According to the national church's canons, this is a fund which is to be set aside in each church and is to be used by the Rector, at his or her discretion, to assist the poor. It may not be used for any other purposes.
Here are some ways that your contributions have been used
to help others:
> Providing food for a family who lost their home and possessions in a fire
> Providing needed medication to a woman who was injured by her abusive husband
> Providing diapers for a "special-needs" child whose mother could not afford them
> Assisting a family who could not afford the cost of a funeral for their infant daughter.
Thank you, and may God bless you for your generosity!
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Thank you to the Parish Action Team for their
past donations to the Rectors' Discretionary Fund, which is used to assist the poor in our community.
Sincerely,
Mike Kreutzer
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I
am the light of the world
Whoever
follows me will never walk in
darkness
but
will have the light of life.
John
8:12
Our
lamp hanging in the Sanctuary
(In
memory of Vincent Shields)
The
lamp hanging in the sanctuary will need donors to keep it burning. The cost for each candle will be
$6 for a two week period. Also, more than one person/family can sign-up for a candle. Each week the bulletin will announce from whom the candle was given and why. Sign-up sheet is on the bulletin board outside the church office.
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The Episcopal Book / Resource Center,
a service of the national church office,
has a new web address:
www.episcopalbookstore.org
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A
thought for our time…
Richard
Hooker (1554-1600) was probably the most important theologian in defining
the Anglican approach to Christianity.
Observing the divisions within the Church of his time, and the
tendency of various factions to claim that they alone hold the “true
faith,” he wrote:
“Pray
that none will be offended if I seek to make the Christian Religion an inn
where all are received joyously, rather than a cottage where some few
friends of the family are to be received.”
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Forward Day by Day
After the February/March/April issue of “Forward
Day by Day”, St. Mark’s will no longer order these publications.
If you would like to continue to receive them, you may do so by sending a
check for $13.97 for a 2-year subscription to the regular edition or $11.97 for
a 1-year subscription to the large print edition to:
Forward Movement Publications
412 Sycamore Street
Cincinnati, OH 45202-4195
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It is said that music is the universal language for all people. Well, today, United Way is “preaching to the choir.” We believe St. Mark’s Episcopal and United Way have a common melody:
>>> We care what happens to children and youth
>>> We promote strengthening individuals and families
>>> We respect dignity and independence for the elderly
>>> We support quality programs and services to meet needs
Please support the United Way campaign.
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The THIRD SUNDAY OF THE
MONTH is our regular monthly
“Hunger
Sunday”
“Hunger Sunday” Since we will be at St. Margaret’s in Trotwood please feel free to bring in your donations Sunday, March 28th.
Ever wonder if your grocery donations are helping? In the March newsletter from St. Paul’s UMC states that for the month of January the groceries collected was given to 1,113 individuals for 16,695 meals through the Emergency Food Pantry. Thank you for helping to make this happen.
Please remember to bring in non-perishable food items to be donated to the Food Pantry at St. Paul’s UMC.
Items Needed:
Canned Fruit Canned Soup Canned Meat Canned Vegetables
Jelly/Jam Kidney Beans Macaroni & Cheese Pasta & Pasta Sauce
Saltine Crackers Bar Soap Shampoo Toothpaste
Thank you for your generosity!
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Starting
Sunday, October 1, 2006 there has been a bin to collect items for Care House. This project will take place on the
FIRST SUNDAY OF EVERY MONTH Please remember to bring in you
donation. We are grateful to all donors who provide these items for the children, and their families, who visit CARE House.
We especially hope you can help us provide multi-cultural activities and toys for the children to enjoy along with healthy snacks. Thank you.
CARE HOUSE WISH LIST
(Please note the top 3 bulleted items are items we are currently in need of)
· Hand-held electronic games (preschool through adolescence)
· Sports items (baseballs and baseball gloves, footballs and soccer balls)
· Personal care items (combs, hairbrushes, lotion, mouthwash, Q-tips, shampoo, soap, tissues, toothbrushes and toothpaste)
· Juice boxes
· Snack foods (individually wrapped, please)
· Board games (preschool through adolescence)
· Stuffed animals (new please)*
· Plastic storage tubs (new please)
· Office supplies (i.e. pens, paper clips, plain envelopes, post-it notes)
· Gift cards
(Wal-Mart, Kroger, Meijer)
· Gel pens and stickers
*As part of The Children’s Medical Center of Dayton, CARE House is unable to accept used stuffed animals due to our infection control
policy.
Donations of cash are always appreciated for the discretionary needs of CARE House.
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The THIRD SUNDAY OF THE
MONTH is our regular monthly
“Hunger
Sunday”
Please remember to bring in non-perishable food items
to be donated to the Food Pantry at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church in Dayton.
Items Needed Pantry:
Canned Fruit, Condiments, Drink Mixes,
Kool-aid, Lemonade, Bar Soap, Laundry Soap, Shampoo, Toothpaste,
Children’s and Men’s Clothes, Fans Paper/Plastic Bags.
Thank you for your generosity!
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St.
Mark’s Vestry spent Saturday, March 8, 2003 in a work session, examining our
mission and goals and ways that we can better address them.
One outcome of that meeting was the decision to take a new approach
to our parish organizations. Vestry members will now assume leadership roles for four
areas of mission:
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Outreach
and Evangelism
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Parish
Life
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Education
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Facilities
Supporting
all four of these are the functions of Communications and Finance.
Our intent is to work together to ensure that all these aspects of
our life as a church are directed toward the mission with which we have been
entrusted by God, and with the goals that we have set in order to fulfill
that mission. Watch for
more information in the coming weeks and years!
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