May Updates
Weekend Food for Kids
Summer fast approaches, and that means that we’re gearing up for Weekend Food for Kids 2021.
For those who don’t know, Weekend Food for Kids is a summertime collaboration between St. Mark’s and the Unitarian Universalist Church of the Palouse to provide food for children in need.
Last year we distributed nearly 2,100 bags. This year we’ll pack our first bags on Thursday, June 17. The first bags will be handed out on Friday June 18.
The effort will continue through the last Friday in August. The St. Mark’s team packs bags downstairs in the church beginning at 11:00 a.m. on Thursdays. The bags are distributed to the children at Lena Whitmore school on Fridays (the time is yet to be determined). If you’d like to volunteer or learn more, talk with Lois Clifton (208-835-4763), Carol Espe (208-882-5179), Nancy Lyle (208-596-2840), or Harriet Hughes (208-596-8307).
To donate, make your check payable to UUCP, with WFFK written on the memo line (important to ensure that the funds are properly allocated), and mail it to UUCP, P.O. Box 9342, Moscow, ID 83843. Donations of any amount are much appreciated. We also appreciate donations of clean used plastic grocery bags.
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Concert for the Human Family
The vision for this concert is to echo beyond the cathedral walls, "to live into a dream bigger than any of us - the dream of God". This is a project, a dream spinning off of the question, "What could happen, what movement could begin, what conversation could be started or amplified, if our churches and cathedral spaces once again rang out with the promise and hope and power of Good News"?
From the Cathedral webpage:
To bring this dream to life, The Episcopal Church has partnered with Kory Caudill, a Nashville recording artist, pianist, and composer. For much of the past year, Kory and his team of talented musicians, engineers, and producers have worked to create an album of original music to guide audiences in an exploration of the human experience. The concerts, designed to highlight a variety of musical and cultural traditions, stories, and reconciliation work, will serve as a centerpiece for deeper and more long-standing conversations around racial reconciliation “on the ground” in host communities. Each concert is designed to expand and mold to the concert venue – making the venue itself a part of the story being told. In a literal sense, the Church becomes a vital piece of the work of reconciliation, giving voice to and creating space for all people who walk through the doors – and those who have not yet been welcomed in.
New Internet Service
St. Mark's has new internet service from Ziply fiber. Over the last couple of months we have researched our options and worked with local folks to bring our internet up to a service capacity that will allow us to continue to livestream, record, and keep in touch in creative ways with all of you!
Special thanks to local folks who work with Ziply and VGH: Aaron Davis and Justin McCafferty (Ziply, formerly Frontier); and Connor Smith (VGH).
Holladay and Sandy are already enjoying speedy internet at the vicarage, and the church will soon (this week!) have phone service and internet service inside all set up!
Community of Hope, Pastoral Care
Community of Hope (COH) Training
Learn more at virtual coffee hour on May 9th, 11:30am
The Rev. Linda Young, rector at St. James' Episcopal in Pullman, will join us at 12/noon. She'll explain how St. Mark's can be part of COH.
Do you want to grow in your relationship with Christ?
Do you want to acquire the skills to handle different life situations in your everyday journey?Then, the Community of Hope is for you where you will be challenged in your relationship with Christ, and utilize life skills to help others.
Community of Hope International works to create Christian communities of lay volunteer pastoral caregivers united in prayer, shaped by Benedictine Spirituality and equipped for and serving in pastoral care ministries. The volunteer Pastoral Caregivers remain united in prayer and community as their ministries lead them to serve in the congregation and in the wider community. The program remains rooted in Benedictine Spirituality and is based on the classic clinical pastoral education model used in many hospitals to train pastoral caregivers.
The Community of Hope training awakens trainees to God’s call on each of our lives by helping individuals discover and better understand their own spiritual gifts for ministry.
Read more about COH International
This experience builds community and develops spiritually centered pastoral caregivers.
“Care of the sick must rank above and before all else so they may truly be served as Christ, who said, ‘I was sick and you visited me,’…(Matthew 25:36) The Rule of Benedict; Chapter 36.