1) Grandparents' Day Sunday, September 10 | 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. | Family Life Center Everyone is invited to our Love Feast on Sept. 10—Grandparent's Sunday—for a great meal and fun trivia games. Invite your families/grandparents/grandchildren, etc. to the celebration! We hope to have some intergenerational interaction at the tables as there will be prizes and lots of fellowship! Please register your family in advance below. https://www.stmarks.org/love-feast 2) Fall Registration Registration is now OPEN for fall Sunday School, Wednesday Nights, and all activities! Please register your family ..read more

There are stories that are worth repeating. Some of them are family stories, some are from school, and some are parables. Jesus often taught some extremely poignant realities of who God is through parables. One of my favorite parables of Christ is Luke 15. If you have never read or haven't read Luke 15 recently, take time to do so soon as it is a heart-mind-soul changer. I firmly believe that if you are curious to know what the heart of God looks like—the parables in Luke 15 gives us glimpse of the infinite love of our Creator. God continues to write magnificent beauty today through us. One st ..read more

1) Sunday School Promotion Day and Fall Registration Sunday, August 20 | 9:00 & 10:30 a.m. | Family Life Center We welcome everyone to join in the "Back-To-School" Journey! We'll be having a special celebration this day as we promote all our kids to their new classes for the 2023/2024 year. All kids are welcome to join in the fun! 2) Fall Registration Registration is now OPEN for fall Sunday School, Wednesday Nights, and all activities! Please register your family so that we have your updated information. Fall Registration » 3) Family Movie Night Friday, August 25 | Activities: 5 ..read more

Being a parent is not easy. One of my favorite stories is that of a young father who took his three-year-old son to the grocery store. The boy was constantly making more work for his father. Each time the father would put something in the grocery cart, the boy would throw it out. When the cart got close to the shelves, the boy would reach out and pull items off the shelves to the floor. On one occasion the child knocked over a carefully stacked group of cans—sending them in all directions. While the father was picking them up, the boy took off down one of the aisles. People in the store heard ..read more

1) Fall Registration Registration is OPEN for fall Sunday School, Wednesday Nights, and all activities! Please register your family so that we have your updated information. Fall Registration » 2) Meal Assembly Saturday, August 12 | 10:00 a.m. | Upper Fellowship Hall We will be assembling and delivering casseroles to individuals experiencing a hard journey that could benefit from a homemade meal. If you or someone you know could use a meal, or you would like to help, please contact Ricque Harth. Sign up to Bring Ingredients » 3) Promotion Day Sunday, August 20 | 9:00 and 10:30 a ..read more

The movie titled Catch Me if You Can was based on the life of Frank Abagnale, a man who made a living at deception. Frank had an uncanny ability to convince people he was something he wasn't. During the course of his life, he helped perform surgeries as a doctor, flew a commercial airplane as a pilot—he even worked as an assistant attorney general. Frank was intelligent, articulate, charming and talented, but he wasted all of his God-given gifts pretending to be something he wasn't. And when the FBI finally caught up with him, he ended up spending years in federal prison. I think most of us ha ..read more

1) Love Feast this Sunday Please join us at 11:30 in UFH for a meal to celebrate our friendship with each other! This month will be pot roast and potatoes from SkyMart! 2) Fall Registration Calling ALL FAMILIES!! Please take a few moments to update your child's information for fall Sunday School registration. Thank you for your help in updating our records!! Update Child's Information » 3)Sunday School this week "You’re Invited!" – Luke 14:15-24 In our story today, we learned that Jesus told a parable about a host who was preparing a great feast. God invites us to sit at God's table every ..read more

I enjoy the memes which say that if you remember certain items, such as typewriters, you are certainly well along in age. No argument there. One thing I remember in this category is the old flash bulbs for cameras; the ones which would almost pop as they emitted the needed light for the picture. I remember many of them lying around the church after weddings. I clearly remember how much flash they emitted. They were almost overwhelmingly bright; certainly shockingly so. It seemed to me that they would leave lasting images in my vision. We have come a long way from those days. I have read s ..read more

Romans 8:35-39 Okay, I must admit that I love romantic comedies. They may not achieve artistic mastery, but they always make me smile and sometimes even warm my heart. However, the problem with romantic comedies is that they assume everyone trusts love. Even if they follow the familiar trope of having one of the partners arrive with an untrusting heart, trust seems easily won and quickly gained in such films. I haven't seen this to be true in real life. Perhaps this is why Paul invites us so fervently to trust that absolutely nothing in all creation can separate us from God's love. Paul writes ..read more

1) Church Community Wednesdays include fun for all Wednesdays | 5:30-7:00 p.m. | East Lawn Only three more weeks remain for our outdoor Wednesday fun!! Be sure to come check it out!! After this, we will take a break for one week and then begin our fall programming (indoors) on August 23. 2) Don't miss Family Movie Night Friday, July 28 | Activities: 5:30 p.m. & Movie: 6:30 p.m. | Sanctuary This month—Zootopia! 3) Fall Volunteers Would you like to volunteer in Sunday School this year and make a lasting impact on the faith formation of a child? What about help out with Wednesday night c ..read more