2016
News &
Articles
12.18.2016 - Photograph's from Pastor Elkin's Retirement dinner
12.13.2016 - Cookies, Cookies & More Cookies!
12.12.2016 - Preparing for Christmas - Kids Night Out
12.5.2016 - Praying for our College Students
12.5.2016 - A Christmas Carol Performance
12.1.2016 - Making Advent Wreaths
11.30.2016 - Pastor Elkin summarizes 20+years of life together in St. Mark's?
11.21.2016 - Christ the King Sunday Milestones
11.14.2016 - Pack 'n Wrap at Redeemer
11.6.2016 - Recognizing & Honoring All the Saints
10.29.2016 - Celebrating Reformation Sunday
10.16.2016 - Gage Charles Pittinger - Baptism Milestone
10.16.2016 - Harvest Home Sunday
10.9.2016 - Crop Walk 2016
10.5.2016 - Support the St. Mark's Crop Walk team
10.2.2016 - Photos from Consecration Sunday
10.2.2016 - It's Raining Quilts - They're Everywhere!
9.19.2016 - Confirmation Milestone: Sean Jensen & Dylan Ott
9.12.2016 - CELEBration!
9.12.2016 - Fall Bazaar Brings in Funds for Charity
9.4.2016 - Christian Education: Learning & Encouraging the Bible
8.24.2016 - Locked-in at St. Mark's
8.12.2016 - St. Mark's 2016 Fishing Derby
8.12.2016 - Pastor Elkin Announces Upcoming Retirement
8.10.2016 - Kits for victims of Disaster & Poverty
8.8.2016 - 70+, SINGLE, AND STILL PRAISING GOD!
7.23.2016 - Helping Hands Day
7.6.2016 - St. Mark's July 4 Hospitality
6.29.2016 - “La frontera: Where Jesus Meets Us”
6.28.2016 - Stefan Weber and Jacob Schreckengast celebrate driving milestone
6.28.2016 - Synod Assembly report; Bishop elected
5.17.2016 - 2016 Annual Congregation Assembly
5.9.2016 - Youth Conduct Service
5.9.2016 - 2016 Annual Report
4.24.2016 - Applegate Baptism Celebrated
4.21.2016 - Pastor Elkin's Surprise Party Celebrating his 20th Year at St. Mark's
4.16.2016 - Commemorating 20 Years of Service - With a Youth Feast!
4.6.2016 - Food Packaging Event
3.27.2016 - Breakfast with the Pastor & Easter Egg Hunt
3.26.2016 - The Vigil of Easter
3.25.2016 - 2016 Confirmation Trip
3.19.2016 - Making Palm Crosses
3.5.2016 - VALENTINE FUNDRAISING DINNER A SUCCESS!
3.5.2016 - Tubing
2.17.2016 - A piece of our past: 1941 Confirmation Class
2.8.2016 - Prayer Pillows for Brennan and Dallas
2.8.2016 - Join the Bell Choir!
1.31.2016 - Lenten Services Scheduled
1.10.2016 - Commemorating Baptism with Faith Chests
Fall Bazaar Brings in Funds for Charity
The Women of St. Mark’s heartily
thank the congregation for their
many, many donated items, donations of food for the kitchen,
plus their assistance with our annual bazaar. A special
thank you is extended to Deb Holmes for securing
freshmen students from Lycoming College to assist
in bringing all the tables and the many items
from the basement to Fellowship Hall. The students’
energy seemed boundless. Then in the days
preceding the sale, several men and women worked
each morning to organize the tables in preparation
for the big event. During that time it was determined
that we needed Crossways Room to hold all
the Christmas items.
On the day of the bazaar Fellowship Hall seemed
filled to capacity with shoppers. The kitchen, under
the direction of the Second Saturday folks, saw
many hungry customers in addition to our own
folks. Fellowship Hall remained busy throughout
the day with steady sales.
At the conclusion of the sale, it was inspiring to see several of our members and their children assisting with the clean-up. A special thank you is given to Carol Johnson from Redeemer Lutheran Church, Pam Jensen and Vicki Haussmann for creating our Christmas Shoppe, Bernadette Jones for her Facebook posts advertising our event, our Second Saturday folks for the tasty lunch, Lou and Linda DeSeau and Pastor Elkin for their invaluable assistance throughout the week.
Items not sold at our
sale were donated to the Shepherd of the Streets,
Daniel’s Closet, Newberry Branch of NGA
(Needlework Guild of America), Relay for Life/
Lancers Against Cancer, Operation Christmas Child,
Parish Life at St. Mark’s, the local SPCA and the
American Rescue Workers.
This year we raised almost $1,900 with the possibility of more money being donated. These funds will be distributed by the Women of St. Mark’s in support of charities both locally and globally.