November 14 & 15

The buildings & grounds folks spoke and are worried that everything will still be wet come tomorrow. 

So..let's plan to meet up on  Saturday November 21st. Same plan, different date!

Bring your rakes, leaf blowers, children, friends... The more the merrier. We'll have some coffee and donuts to get things started. 

Let's get the church ready for the Holidays and have a little Fellowship in the process. We look forward to seeing you!

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.

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!

As we all know the pandemic has made it more difficult for some of our fellow parishioners to get out and socialize.  In that spirit, we have thankful turkey craft packets for the children to make and share with parishioners. The thankful turkey craft packets can be picked up at the church office and include all the necessary supplies to make the turkey and the name and contact information of a parishioner to share the turkey with.  

To make the turkey, you will only need scissors, glue/tape and a pen.  Please feel free to make this activity as it fits for your family.  You can drop off the turkey with a quick ‘no-contact’ porch visit to the parishioner. If you would like to include a small gift from your family feel free (such as a small plant, pumpkin, seasonal hand soap - my go to for the pandemic!).  Follow this link for a how-to video

Whatever works for your family would be wonderful and will make a special day for our fellow parishioner.

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! 

Like everything this year, we're planning our Creche service a little differently to accommodate social distancing guidelines.  We'll have a short service at 7pm each evening, Mon-Sat, Dec. 14-19, to present the figures to the creche.  Fr. Rick will livestream it for everyone to watch from home. 

 

There are lots of ways for the Sunday School students and youth to participate. Pick a night that works for you and your family and fill out our signup sheet. We would like to keep the total number of families attending per night small so please look for a night that best works for your family size.  As always, we're very flexible on costume choices.  Please click here for the signup genius

We'll be sending all of our Sunday school students the music and words to Go Tell it on the Mountain, asking them to record themselves singing it at home and then our maestro, Michael, will put it all together for one of his masterful mashups!  Here's the link of Mike playing so the kids can practice.

Send any questions to Samantha Glass, sammiegg@gmail.com, Kristen Hauser, klhglass@gmail.com, or the office.  We would like signups completed by Sunday, November 29.