Weekly E-bulletin

St. Mark's This Week

Join us for Worship via Zoom Sunday Service is at 10:30 am, Sunday, November 22   Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android:  NEW Zoom internet link:   Worship at St. Mark's   OR: Zoom phone call in numbers: +1 646 558 8656 or +1 301 715 8592 or +1 312 626 6799 or +1 669 900 6833 or +1 253 215 8782 or +1 346 248 7799  Meeting ID: 954 7083 3085 Password: 7uL2BzBxQN   We'll open our virtual doors at 10 a.m. and welcome each other officially for common worship at 10:30. After the 10:30 service join in a breakout room to chat with other members and friends.    Childrens' Worship is a separate Zoom link, it begins at 11:15am: Childrens' Worship, Meeting ID: 885 7312 8367 Passcode: 719459   This is a link to our Sunday, November 22 bulletin

Love is on the way! St. Mark's will be creating our very own virtual Advent calendar this year.  Sarah and Malinda will need a bit of time to work together on this project and have it ready-to-launch for the first Sunday in Advent, so we are asking for your help during these pre-advent weeks. We'd love for all of you...our parishioners of all ages...to send us digital pictures (jpegs) of your artwork, crafts, flower arrangements, photographs you've taken...anything of your own creative expression that will help us see together all the ways that we are getting ready to welcome Love into our midst.   Also, if you have pictures that you've taken in and around the building during past Christmas seasons...feel free to send them along as well. We are working on several projects to keep us connected throughout Advent and Christmas. The building may be closed but the church is open! Please email your pictures to Malinda: dre@stmarksrva.org

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Thanksgiving Eve Compline Service Wednesday, November 25 at 7pm!   Zoom service link to come! We will not have Compline on Thanksgiving, Thursday, November 26

Outreach Ministries

Christmas Box Lists! This year we are hoping to serve 50 elder residents of City District 8. We are working to get the lists but like many things, the election has slowed the process. More information and on-line sign-ups to come!

Food Pantry service continues outside  on 2nd and 4th Saturdays!   We distribute bags, lunches, and fresh fruit at the south entry to those who come.   If you have donation for the pantry, contact Malinda Collier, dre@stmarksrva.org to arrange a drop off.   We need lunch makers for 4th Saturdays! It is pretty easy, make 30 hearty sandwiches, contribute goodies like packaged cookies or chips and always have fresh fruit. This is a great family activity!   Sign up on-line, or contact Ed Street if you can help pack bags, edstreetva@gmail.com

In-person 12-Step meetings are suspended until further notice from the Governor about group meeting sizes. We have helped the group to set up a Zoom meeting account. Check the AA website for on-line meeting links.

Please Remember in your Prayers this Week:   Parishioners: Meredith Franklin, Karen Franklin, Kevin Truman, Amy Strite, Lisette Johnson, Jerry Long, Joan Wood, Sam Francis and family, Betty Leviner, Kate Bishop-Pevsner, the Heady/Downey family, McKenna Brown, Margaret Franklin, Gray Morris, David Lenz, Phyllis Iverson, Juette Iverson, Diane Hoover, David Christiana, Samantha Ridley, Bill Piercy, and Doris Enroughty.   Our extended family and friends: DeWitt Whittington, Brian Hanshaw, Mary, Eric, Katie, Ann, Iris Toombs, Mark Wichorek, Molly Fisher, Carl, Donnell, Nick, Teresa Nichols, the Cook family, the Dudding family, Karina, the Chandler-Dovis family, Joyce Eberly and family, Stefan Osdene, Joan, Michelle, Andrew, the Hagerty family, Matthew Owen, Nancy Kelly, Donna, Kimberley Bess, Justine, Kim, Bob and Chris Sherman, Larry Townley, Mary and Lonny Townley, Virginia Blume, the Phipps family, Nancy Carter Crump, Sean Ward, Gordon, Andy, Jacob Cole, Claudia, Beach, Griffen, Katie Morris, and Donna Raubenstine.   Please contact the office with any changes to the prayer list.  office@stmarksrva.org 804-358-4771