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Welcome To St. Mark's Lutheran Church!
 Connect
St. Mark's is participating with several other congregations in a renewal
program through the South-Central Synod of Wisconsin, ELCA called Connect.
Connect is a two year program. Congregations support each other through
Bible study and reflection, helping to identify and clarify the mission of
each church and provide a foundation for new ministry opportunities. St.
Mark's is excited to participate in this program and to further develop
their hospitality ministries. Our mission statement is, "Reaching out with
the unconditional love of God" though even this may be tweaked during the
coming months.
Diana Butler Bass, a noted church historian, has observed that customs are
what define the way a church cuts their communion bread, or what time
service is or even what kind of music is played. Tradition is knowing that
we are called to Jesus' table of grace, that we gather for worship out of
thanksgiving, and we are to be Christ in the world. Custom's may need to
change. Tradition is what keeps us grounded. Come and join us as we honor a
faith tradition more than two thousand years old but that is necessary and
relevant in our changing world.
Upcoming Events!
There are lots of great things planned at St. Mark's for the next
several weeks. Click Here to learn about them!
St. Mark’s Calendar
Every Tuesday Food Pantry 10 a.m. – 12 Noon
Every Thursday Food Pantry 5:45 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Every Friday - Friday Free Meal 12:00 Noon – 1:00 p.m.
Sunday, July 9 at 9:30 am:
Worship and followed by canvassing
the neighborhood with flyers for the July 16th Ice
Cream Socia
and Live Music
Sunday, July 16 at 9:30 am Worship
4:00-6:00 pm: Free
Ice Cream Social & Live Music!
We look forward to meeting our neighbors and sharing
ice cream, cookies and
live music! Rain or Shine.
Sunday, July 23 at 9:30 am:
Worship “Sing a New Song Sunday”
Sunday, July 30 at 9:30 am:
Worship & Summer Hymn Sing. It will be fun!
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Assembling & Packing Baby Kits
for Lutheran World Relief
 From
Our Pastor:
Final Flings
From the
September, 2017 issue of Branches
Dear Friends:
I read a devotional every morning that arrives in my email inbox. It is
distributed by the Center for Action and Contemplation and usually the
devotionals are written by Richard Rohr but some-times other noted
contemporary authors get a guest spot. There are a series of devotionals
that have stayed present in my mind and heart on the subject of forgiveness.
He wrote, Our first for-giveness is towards reality itself: to forgive it
for being so broken, a mixture of good and bad. Only God, it seems, is
spacious enough to include everything”. During these very divisive times it
is comforting to know that holding all sides is impossible without God. But
that also the way through is with forgiveness.
Blessings, Pastor Lori
Read
Pastor Lori's article in the September, 2017 issue of Branches.
Click here.
 
"And God said, ‘Let the waters under the sky be
gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear.’ And it was
so." Genesis 1:9
The Food pantry has not been effected by the flooding. Twenty new families
have found their way to our pantry!
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