An online check-in with our membershosted by the Rector and Sr. Warden BYO coffee and pastries November 22, 2020, at 1 p.m. Join us as we check-in with each other about life in this COVID reality and learn of ways…
Category: Life
Support group forming for ex-prisoners
Yavneh and St. Mark’s seek to help released women St. Mark’s and Yavneh plan to form a pilot reentry support circle with Interfaith Prison Ministry for Women. Many women – particularly those for whom drugs and substance use led to their convictions – risk re-engagement with their previous lifestyles if they…
‘Blessing of the Animals’ is Saturday; animal rescue ministry is Sunday
Saturday: Join us Oct. 1 at 10:30 a.m. for our annual “Blessing of the Animals.” The service is in remembrance of St. Francis of Assisi’s love for all creatures. Francis, whose feast day is Oct. 4, loved the larks flying…
‘Blessing of the Animals’ is Oct. 1 at St. Mark’s
St. Mark’s holds its annual ‘Blessing of the Animals’ Saturday, Oct. 1, at 10:30 a.m. The service is in remembrance of St. Francis of Assisi’s love for all creatures. Francis, whose feast day is Oct. 4, loved the larks flying…
Parish Area Care groups: Fellowship, fun and support in times of need
As the Parish Life Commission is strengthening and revitalizing Parish Area Care groups, people may be asking what they are. Here is the reminder for old-timers and answer for questioners. Parish Area Care at St. Mark’s reaches out to all members of…
Orlando
Dear St. Mark’s Family, Tonight our thoughts and prayers go out to the victims of the violence in Orlando, and to the LGBT community, the innocent targets of hate. At times like this, the church is a place of comfort…
A Prayer for Thanksgiving Day
Gracious God, we give you thanks for the fruits of the earth in their season and for the labors of those who harvest them. Make us, we pray, faithful stewards of your great bounty, for the provision of our necessities…
October 18, 2015, at 9:30 a.m., St. Mark’s Welcomes Special Guest Speaker
The Episcopal Farmworker Ministry (EFwM), a joint ministry between the Diocese of East Carolina and North Carolina, has been serving farmworkers in Johnston, Harnett and Sampson Counties in eastern North Carolina for nearly three decades. EFwM ministers to 3,500 farmworkers…
Bringing the Whole of Who We Are
In the Episcopal Church we get teased about ‘Episcopal aerobics.’ That’s because in our worship services we bring the whole of who we are — embodied creatures, made in the image of God. We stand…we sit…we kneel and, at St.…