SUNDAY SCHOOL - 9:30am in Koetz Hall (Ages 3 to 12) Begins in September (DATES TBA)
First Bible - (3rd Grade - age 9) - Dates TBA
First Bible
Training - Saturday, Date TBA
First
Communion - (4th Grade - age 10) - & - Communion workshop (Dates TBA)
First Communion - Sunday, Date TBA - 10:45am service
Confirmation Classes
begin September (Date TBA)
Confirmation Ceremony - Sunday, October 30th, 2011
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First
Communion is celebrated at St. Mark each year when our members who are 10 years old participate in an overnight retreat and
learn about Holy Communion. Each year the participants paint their own chalice, form their own beeswax candle, make a group
banner, bake communion bread for Sunday worship services, and reenact the Last Supper in a drama.
OVERNIGHT RETREATES CAN
BE FUN!
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"WATCH FOR DETAILS"
Ages: kindergarten through sixth grade. Invite
your friends. See Amy Gajeski for more information.
Every year on Good Friday there is an
Easter Egg Hunt from 10:00am to 10:45am for children ages preschool through thrid grade.
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YOUTH OUTREACH
If you know anyone who is battling cancer, please contact the LYO group. We have bags
available for men, women, and children and have already had the opportunity to give one out.
For more information on this outreach go to www.philsfriends.org Phil will be coming to St. Mark soon to give a presentation of his ministry and his testimony!
CONFIRMATION CLASSES Wednesday,
September 14th @ 7:00pm through May.
MARK YOUR CALENDAR -
CONFIRMATION RETREAT
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Dates - TBA!
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Developing and promoting youth activities is an important part of our church. The church offers
several activities for our younger members.
* Kids For Christ akaKids Fun Club (Grades 1 - 6th /Ages
5 -12) * Sunday School (Beginning at age 3) * Confirmation (Grades 6, 7, and 8) * Vacatioin Bible School * Special Children's Events * First Bible Training (Age 9) * First Communion Training (Age 10)
Brookfield Zoo - Tree Trimming. (Click on the tree to see previous years pictures.) Sunday, November 20th - 10am to 5pm - Leave St. Mark immediately following the 10:45am service.
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Annual Pet Blessing
October
6th, 2012, Saturday @ 10am on the church grounds.
All pets are welcome (even the stuffed ones). A leash or carrying case will be
needed. Be sure to bring a donation for the local animal shelter.
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The 2011 St. Mark Tent Event. Click on the pictures to
enlarge them.
1 John 1:7 - 2:10 7 but if we walk in the light,
as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.8 If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins,
he is faithful and just, and will forgive our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say we have
not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us. RSV 1 John 2:1 My little children,
I am writing this to you so that you may not sin; but if any one does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ
the righteous; 2 and he is the expiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole
world. 3 And by this we may be sure that we know him, if we keep his commandments. 4 He who says "I
know him" but disobeys his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him; 5 but whoever keeps his word,
in him truly love for God is perfected. By this we may be sure that we are in him: 6 he who says he abides in him
ought to walk in the same way in which he walked. 7 Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment, but an old commandment
which you had from the beginning; the old commandment is the word which you have heard. 8 Yet I am writing you
a new commandment, which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.
9 He who says he is in the light and hates his brother is in the darkness still. 10 He who loves his
brother abides in the light, and in it there is no cause for stumbling.
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Peter 1:14 - 2:11 14 As obedient children, do not be conformed
to the passions of your former ignorance, 15 but as he who called you is holy, be holy yourselves in all your conduct;
16 since it is written, "You shall be holy, for I am holy." 17 And if you invoke as Father
him who judges each one impartially according to his deeds, conduct yourselves with fear throughout the time of your exile.
18 You know that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your fathers, not with perishable things
such as silver or gold, 19 but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot.
20 He was destined before the foundation of the world but was made manifest at the end of the times for your sake.
21 Through him you have confidence in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith
and hope are in God. 22 Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere love of the brethren,
love one another earnestly from the heart. 23 You have been born anew, not of perishable seed but of imperishable,
through the living and abiding word of God; 24 for "All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower
of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls, 25 but the word of the Lord abides for ever." That word
is the good news which was preached to you. RSV 1 Peter 2:1 So put away all malice and all guile
and insincerity and envy and all slander. 2 Like newborn babes, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you
may grow up to salvation; 3 for you have tasted the kindness of the Lord. 4Come
to him, to that living stone, rejected by men but in God's sight chosen and precious; 5 and
like living stones be yourselves built into a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices
acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 6 For it stands in scripture: "Behold, I am laying in
Zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious, and he who believes in him will not be put to shame." 7 To
you therefore who believe, he is precious, but for those who do not believe, "The very stone which the builders rejected
has become the head of the corner," 8 and "A stone that will make men stumble, a rock that will make
them fall"; for they stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do. 9 But you are a chosen
race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's own people, that you may declare the wonderful deeds of him who called you
out of darkness into his marvelous light. 10 Once you were no people but now you are God's people;
once you had not received mercy but now you have received mercy. 11 Beloved, I beseech you as aliens and exiles
to abstain from the passions of the flesh that wage war against your soul.
Annual Pet Blessing
