Comments (0) From 31t of January, St Mark’s will be undertaking a six month trial of a new service time, with our 9:00am Service starting at 9:30am. This time will be more family friendly, and the service will also include a kids segment, complementing the Children’s Church program.
Our 7:30am and 6:00pm services will continue to run at their scheduled times.
Playgroup recommences on Wednesday 3rd February. All babies, toddlers, and preschoolers and their parents or carers are welcome to attend.
This year Playgroup will be held upstairs in the St Mark’s Parish Hall.
To register or for more information, please call Jolanda on 3300 1502.
Youth Group are all about fun and games and getting to know each other and God.
We have three Youth Groups this year.
Elevate
Grades 4 – 6
3:30 – 5:00pm
Platform
Grades 7 – 9
5:00 – 7:00pm
Frontier
Grades 10 – 12
7:00 – 9:00pm
We are on a mission to sign up as many people as we can to join our Lenten Growth Group Study. This is a great opportunity to strengthen your faith. Please contact Mick George on 3300 1502 during office hours.
During the school holidays, St Mark’s is turning up the spiritual heat, with five guest and local preachers preaching on their favourite bible passages over five weeks. We have already had Phil Campbell preach on Philippians chapter 1, and John Dougherty preach on Matthew 22:34-40.
We still have three great preachers to go, with Hugh Begbie, Catherine Sutton and Ralph Bowles preaching over the next three Sundays. Come and join us as we turn up the spiritual heat in 2010 with our Summer Favourites series.
St Mark’s will be hosting three services for those wanting to celebrate Christmas.
Christmas Eve
7:00pm Contemporary Christmas Service
10:30pm Carols followed by 11:00pm Holy Communion Service
Christmas Day
8:30am Holy Communion Service
All welcome.
Wishing you a happy and holy Christmas, from all of us at St Mark’s.
Santa visited the St Mark’s Playgroup on Wednesday, bringing good tidings and Christmas cheer as part of the groups end of year break up party. A fun time was had by all and Santa even remembered to bring some special presents for all of the kids!
Thanks for visiting us Santa!
If you would like to find out more about St Mark’s Playgroup, contact the office on 3300 1502.
If you would like to find out more about Santa Claus, The Saint Nicholas Center has a wealth of information and activities for the kids.
We are holding our annual Kids Christmas Service this Sunday the 20th of December at 4:30pm in the Church (did I mentioned its air-conditioned?).
The half hour service will be a celebration of the Christmas story for primary school aged children, followed by a sausage sizzle.
All welcome!
John D, 
Youth & Children’s Minister
The Care Team have celebrated their second year of ministry at St Mark’s. The team was established two years ago, with the vision:
“To establish, train and sustain a parish care team, motivated by the love of Christ and his love for all people, which is able to provide support to members of the parish and community, where appropriate, in times of personal need.”
Throughout 2009, the care team have provided support to a number of members of the St Mark’s community, whether it be providing meals, transport or a listening ear.
One of the highlights was hosting a public talk on loss and grief for the wider community in The Gap. The talk, given by grief counselor Anne Ogden, from Kinections, well well attended and well received by those who attended.
For more information about St Mark’s Care Team, please contact the office on 3300 1502.
We have entered a bold new world at St Mark’s! Doing the website in-house using Wordpress! A big thank you to Margaret and Brendan who volunteered their time to design and update the previous version of our website.
We only have a couple of pages uploaded at this stage, but come back regularly as we plan to expand the site over the next few months. Let us know what you would like to see on this site!
Blessings,
The St Mark’s Team
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