The Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost
Saturday 5PM Eucharist at Harry Dunham Park
with The Blessing of the Pets
Bring your fuzzy/furry/feathered (scaled??) little friends to church!
8AM Holy Eucharist Rite I
9AM All Youth Groups to meet together in Parish Hall
Sunday Adult Forum in Heritage Room
10AM Holy Eucharist Rite II Recovery Sunday & Sunday School
Purple is the color for recovery. So, wear your purple this Sunday!
Fr. Rick's Blog
This week read about Job wanting to find a good lawyer and take God to court. Maybe the craziest lesson of the whole Bible. Read here.
The Sunday Forum
We continue our foray into Prayer: The Tools and the Masters this week at 9AM in the Heritage Room. Fr. Rick's videos of the sessions, and all the resources and handouts can be found on the website. Last week's video is included here!
Save the Date – Sip & Savor, October 27th
A Unique Event of Wine, Food, Fun & Fellowship!
Wander through a unique experience with wine and hor d'oeuvres from countries around the world. Learn about the features of the wine from your servers and then dine on scrumptious food!Check our the creative themed baskets on display and bid throughout the night!
Reserve your spots! Invite some Friends! $75 per person
Purchase tickets by emailing stmarks.br@verizon.net or
online by clicking here (there is a $6 per-ticket fee for using this service)
Please click here to download a form if you would like to donate a basket for the silent auction.
Fall Gathering of the Women of St. Mark’s – Tuesday, 10/16 @ 6:30pm
Join together for food, fun and fellowship at the Cottage of Carol DeCoste. Sign up in the link or call Carol DeCoste, 908-766-0409 or g.decoste@yahoo.comKeansburg Soup Kitchen - Wednesday, 10/17
Pleae check out our needs list for this coming Wednesday's meal at St. Mark's in Keansburg. Thank youFamily Service, Sunday, 10/28
Please join us on October 28th for a Family Service. The Youth have been practicing songs and will participate as ushers, readers and greeters during the Service. This will be a wonderful morning celebrating our youth groups and Sunday school.Dress for Success - October collection
What would you wear to a job interview? That is exactly the type of clothing Dress for Success is looking to distribute to our clients. Your fabulous suits and other professional apparel could furnish another person with the confidence to enter or return to the workplace, make a great first impression and land a job that could change their life.Additionally, many of their clients go directly to an interview, so please ensure that all items donated are freshly dry-cleaned / laundered, and suitable for wearing to job interviews.
Type of clothing accepted (they accept for both men and women)
- Coordinated, contemporary, interview-appropriate skirt and pant suits
- Blouses & shirts appropriate for interviews and a work environment
- Professional separates including blouses/shirts, slacks/pants, skirts, dresses, blazers and jackets
- scarves
- Seasonally appropriate coats
smARTS
Next Sunday after church! For more information and online sign up, click here.Learn how to screen print your own created image onto a t-shirt, tote bag, fabric, etc. We will take you through the whole process from beginning to end.
You’ll learn how to:
- Create an image for screen printing
- Apply photo-sensitive emulsion to a screen
- Develop your image onto the screen
- And, how to print from the screen
You will need to provide the items (t-shirt, tote-bag...) that you will be printing on.
By the end of the October 21st meeting you’ll have an image and be ready to transfer that image onto the screen. You’ll need another session (included in the cost) to finish and print.
smARTS is the faith-and-the-arts group at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church. We’re a friendly guild of artists who seek to immerse ourselves in the creative wonder of God. We learn and explore different artistic mediums, and we lean on the wisdom that is already within our gather.
All ages welcome. Families welcome. Friends welcome.
Giving Gardens at the Ross Farm
We have now harvested over 1500 pounds of fresh produce!
St. Mark's is up to lead garden workshops this week
so please come and join in:
Tuesday, 10/16, noon - 1:30pm
Wednesday, 10/17, 4:00-5:30pm
Friday, 10/19, 9:00-10:30am
October - Breast Cancer Awareness Month
AGFineArt (Andrea Giordano) has placed candles in the link for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. They are $12.75 plus tax ($13.63 total). You may purchase them by leaving a check in the basket provided. You may also visit her website, agfineartgallery.com , and purchase online.Please take a moment to look at the new art installation in Bryan's Room courtesy of Andrea. It’s a special print edition giclee on canvas of her painting “The Tree Of Dreams”, which was inspired by the Roald Dahl story The BFG. She has gifted it to St. Mark's in appreciation for supporting her artistic endeavors. Thank you, Andrea.
Morristown Soup Kitchen
We will be serving lunch at the Church of the Redeemer in Morristown on Wednesday, October 31st (Happy Halloween!) and we need servers. Please contact Kit McLaughlan, kit.mclstmk@gmail.com , if you are able to volunteer your time. Thank you!