November 7 & 8

The Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost

5PM Holy Eucharist Rite II (Bulletin)

8am Holy Eucharist Rite I (Bulletin)

10am Holy Eucharist Rite II (Bulletin)

J2B Meeting on Sunday evening at 7pm (link on webpage)

You can click on "Bulletin" above to print out a bulletin for the services.

You can also go to our website, click on the Bulletin buttons for Sunday or Saturday and print a PDF directly from there.

Sign ups are required for all in-person services. We will also broadcast on YouTube & Facebook

Weekend Services

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November 14 and 15

Weekly Offerings

Monday 10am Morning Prayer (Facebook & Youtube)

Tuesday 7pm Devotion on Instagram

Wednesday 9am Holy Eucharist in the church (Facebook & YouTube)
Thursday 12noon Midday Mindfulness (Facebook)

All our services are also broadcast on Youtube and Facebook. In addition, they can be seen directly from the front page of our website.

Visit our website, stmarksbr.org for links and schedules to all upcoming services, music offerings, signups, and more.
Please make yourself familiar with our current protocols for participating in in-person gatherings at St. Mark's

Take A look at what we’re doing here at St Mark’s to keep things as safe as we can.

Red Cross Blood Drives Continue at St. Mark's

Our next blood drive will be:

December 2nd

follow this link to sign up

Drive up Food Drive at St. Mark's - Saturday, November 14th

The Ridge High School First Responder's Club is hosting a drive up, food donation drop off on Saturday, November 14 at the front of St. Mark's from 10-3. Please place your donations in the back seat of your car and we will safely unload them for you.

The Somerset County Foodbank is in great demand and graciously accepting all non-perishable food items. Thank you for your support of The Somerset County Foodbank.

Holiday Turkey and Ham Collection

Once again, we will be collecting turkeys and hams for the food bank to help spread joy to families in need during the holiday season. We will start collecting this week, November 1st, and collect straight through until Sunday, December 13th. Please bring the items directly to the kitchen or during the week, to the office. If you would rather donate and have us do the shopping, there is a basket in the narthex, or send a check to the office. Thanks so much for your generosity!

Food Bank of Somerset County General Needs

We checked in with the Food Bank and they are in particular need of mini-boxes of cereal, as well as instant and ground coffee. If you are willing to donate, please place in the link and Jackie Taylor with pick up and deliver (thanks Jackie!).

As you know, the Foodbank is in great demand these days. You can help by making a monetary donation by clicking here. This will allow the staff to purchase much needed food to deal with the increase in demand at their door. Thank you!

Painting Party, via Zoom!

There will be a St. Mark’s fellowship activity on Friday, November 13^th at 7:00 p.m. via Zoom. The virtual painting party will be hosted by your fellowship chair, Sandy Gogerty, and the event will be led by parishioner and local artist, Andrea Giordano. Don’t miss the opportunity to join your St. Mark’s family for this fun event. Materials can be delivered to your home or you may pick them up at the church...more details to follow. The activity will be presented virtually, however, feel free to join together with your friends in socially distanced/appropriate gatherings to watch the lesson and paint together. Questions and for sign -up please contact Sandy at sgogerty@optonline.net.Sign up at https://www.agfineartgallery.com/; Once on the website, Go to: More then book online. Cost is $25 which includes lesson and all needed supplies.

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4th Annual Soup for the Soul fundraising event sponsored by Jewish Family Service of Somerset, Hunterdon and Warren Counties.

This special event supports people in the community who are food insecure and socially isolated. The event is being held on Sunday, November 22. We normally (pre-Covid) invite guests to join us for an enlightening program as we serve homemade soups, as well as hold a silent auction. Well we are still doing all of this in 2020, just virtually!

If you live local and would like to purchase a ticket to the event, we will be holding soup pick up (three pints of vegetarian soup) that day at Temple Sholom in Bridgewater from 1:00 - 3:00 PM. You will also be sent a Zoom link to participate in the program from 6:00 - 6:45 PM that evening while enjoying dinner in the comfort of your own home. Alternatively, if you live too far to pick up the soup, you can purchase a “ticket” to the event and JFS will make sure that the soup gets delivered to one of our homebound clients in need. You will still receive the Zoom link to join the program. Please click on this link to access registration for this event: https://jewishfamilysvc.org/2020-soup-for-the-soul.php

We are also holding a Silent Auction as an additional way to raise funds for those that are Food Insecure. The information is on the website with the event registration. Even those that do not buy a ticket to the event can participate in the auction. We will make arrangements to get all prizes to the winner. The Auction is LIVE now and will close at 6:45 PM on November 22. Winners will be notified automatically when the auction closes.

Thank you for any support you can give! Here’s hoping we can all meet in person again next year.