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Proclaiming Christ’s Abundant Love
This Week at St. Mark’s
SUNDAY, MAY 8 7 Easter 9:00a Worship No Sunday School 10:30a Worship
MONDAY, MAY 9 9:30a Faith Circle - Nicky Draves 6:30p Council Meeting 7:30p Fox Valley Festival Chorus
TUESDAY, MAY 10 10:00a Adult Bible Study 1:00p Staff Meeting 7:00p Glory Ringers
WEDNESDAY, MAY 11 9:30a Bread Wrappers 10:30a Funeral Lunch and Leadership Meeting 1:00p Office Volunteers
THURSDAY, MAY 12 7:00p Lion’s Voice Choir
FRIDAY, MAY 13 6:30p Al-Anon
SATURDAY, MAY 14 Day of Pentecost - Please wear red 1:00p Nielsen Piano Recital 5:00p Worship
SUNDAY, MAY 15 Day of Pentecost - Please wear red Coffee Sales 9:00a Worship 9:00a Last Day of Sunday School 9:00a Reception of New Members 10:30a Worship 3:30p Spring Music Academy Recital
Welcoming New Members
Lutheran Youth Choir International - Singers Needed
Surf Shack VBS in July
Website Photos Needed
Funeral Lunch Meeting
May Adult Bible Study
Thank You
Welcoming New Members
We will be welcoming our newest members to St. Mark's on Sunday, May 15th during the 9:00am worship! There will be a small reception following the worship. All new members will be wearing a carnation, please welcome them and introduce yourself!
Thank You
I want to say thank you for all of you that said prayers and sent positive thoughts my way while I had shoulder surgery. The surgery was a success, but I still have the long road of full recovery. Each day is easier than the one before when you have a church community behind you praying for you! Thank you also for the get well cards. They meant a lot to me. ~Annette Wood
Happy Mothers Day!
We give thanks for all Christian parents who have nurtured, supported, and encouraged us. This weekend we give thanks to God for our mothers but also remember grandmothers, aunts, sisters, friends, and colleagues who have shown us a Christ-like life. By their example we have seen Christ alive and for that we rejoice and give praise to God!
Funeral Lunch Coordination and Leadership Meeting
Please join us on Wednesday, May 11th at 10:30 am in the Community Room, right after bread wrapping. We would like to continue to offer comfort and support to members of St. Mark’s by providing a luncheon following a funeral or memorial service. If you would like to be part of this discussion related to leadership and coordination please join us. There is a sign-up at the Welcome Center.
Adult Fellowship
St. Mark’s CDC News
Members in Need of Cards
Yes on IL Bill SB2047
ELCA Good Gifts - Our Flock of Sheep Has Grown!
“Good Gifts” grow the Church, fight hunger, and transform lives. This year St. Mark’s created the goal to raise at least enough to purchase four sheep. Each sheep costs $125, thus we were hoping to raise at least $500. Through your generous donations we collected $2,580, which is enough for 20 sheep! Thank you to everyone who donated to ELCA Good Gifts in honor or to remember your special mother or mother figure on Mother’s Day weekend.
Members in Need of Cards & Well-wishes
Cards mean a lot to our members who are recouping from illness or surgery. The following members would love to hear from you:
† Ogie & James Howard: 495 North Lake Street - Apt. 322 - Aurora, IL 60506 **They will be celebrating their 71st wedding anniversary on May 11th!**
† Andy Andrews: 2 S. Adams Street - North Aurora, IL 60542
Adult Fellowship - Tanner House Museum Tour one of Aurora’s oldest and most charming family homes on May 26th.. This historic house was built in 1857 and occupied by members of the Tanner family until 1934. It has been beautifully restored to reflect life around 1890. Lunch will be at Reuland’s Deli prior to the tour. Meet in the church parking lot at 11:45am or at Reuland’s (115 Oak Ave.) at Noon. The Tanner house is on the corner of Oak and Cedar, one block from Reuland’s. To learn more about Aurora history and life in the 1890’s, please join us on Thursday, May 26th at
11:45am in the church parking lot. Everyone is welcome to join us, please sign-up at the Welcome Center. If you have questions please contact Arlene at: (630) 892-8214.
May Adult Bible Study
This week the Adult Bible Study continues in its focus on some of the lesser known Biblical characters. Meeting on Tuesdays at 10am the group this week will look at Felix, Eudias & Syntche, Eunice & Lois, Eliezer, Eliakim, Eliab & Jabal, and Jubal & Tubal-Cain. Don’t know who some of these are? Come on Tuesday as we search through the Scriptures and gain a broader and deeper understanding of some of these lesser known Biblical characters.
St. Mark’s Child Development Center Items Needed
They could use a few more items:
A gently used recliner.
Sizes infant - 6x boy or girl pants, sweatpants, stretch pants, or shorts.
Sizes 2 - 6x boy and girl underwear.
If you have any of these items, please call the center at 630-897-6063.
† Mary Close † Don & Claudia Cossairt
† Ralph & Cora Lienert † Fauntie Wilcoxon
Photos Need for St. Mark’s Website The St. Mark’s website is in need of some updating and we are looking for newer photos. If you have 2015-2016 photos from any St. Mark’s ministry or event, please email them to: [email protected].
Please do not email photos to any other account besides [email protected]. We also ask that you include the date the photo was taken and label the event taking place. Please also send the photo over in it’s original size. Contact Nicole Ferrier if you have any questions.
Lutheran Youth Choir International - Singers Needed The Lutheran Youth Choir International (Lutheranyouthchoir.org) invites high school age singers to join young people from Germany to sing in the choir's Festival of Global Music this summer, July 10th to 19th. The students will stay and rehearse at North Central College, and there will be concerts and field trips (including a visit to Six Flags) around the Chicago and Milwaukee areas. Generous Financial Aid is available. In addition, any student who sings in this year's group will be guaranteed $1,000 toward the choir's trip to Germany next summer. In Germany the choir stays at a restored 13th century castle overlooking Luther's boyhood home of Mansfeld, Germany. The registration deadline is approaching, so please visit: lutheranyouthchoir.org today for more information and for application materials.
† Todd & Melissa Drafall
Maddie & Logan
Register for Surf Shack VBS: July 25 - 29th Catch the Wave of God’s amazing love this summer at Surf Shack at St Mark’s from July 25 - 29th, 9am - 12pm daily. We need your help! There is a table in Narthex with a list of all of the positions we need to fill: everything from kitchen help, to crafts, to music, to just leading kids from station to station. Register to be a volunteer at: www.StMarksAuroraVBS.com .
Online registration is also open to register your for kids! The sooner you can register, the easier it is to plan our crafts, snacks, science projects and t-shirts. So please visit: www.StMarksAuroraVBS.com today to register your children. Also
download the free Surf Shack VBS app from the ITunes app store or Google Play to give your kids a chance to meet the characters, play some games and hear the VBS music before July! Yes on SB2047: Urge Your Representatives to Act!
The Association for Individual Development is asking for our help. Please call or write your State Representative and ask them to support SB2047, which would provide partial relief for human service providers, including services for individuals with mental health and developmental disabilities. Please also remind your State Representative that these stopgap solutions, while important, do not replace the need for a fully-funded budget with revenue for both FT16 and FY17 that prioritizes funding for services for individuals with mental illness and developmental disabilities. Please check out the St. Mark’s Facebook page for a link that will guide you on how to contact your State Representative.
May 7th & 8th, 2016
Welcome!
We’ve been waiting for you! Our mission at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church is to proclaim Christ’s Abundant Love. We are called to reach out to persons of all ages and life situations with Christ’s own hospitality and acceptance, to invite you to be our companion on the spiritual journey as we discover together the ways that Christ is offering hope, healing, and a renewed sense of meaning for our lives.
If you are not a member, we would love to talk to you about our ministry. We invite you to talk to one of our pastors or stop at the Welcome Center near the church entrance.
May your worship experience here at St. Mark’s draw you closer to Christ and His Abundant Love!
Today’s WORSHIP FOCUS
This week brings us almost to the end of the Easter cycle, and concludes the series of lectionary readings from Acts and Revelation. Following Pentecost, and Trinity Sunday on the first Sunday after Pentecost, we start a new series of readings from 1 & 2 Kings and Paul's Letter to the Galatians. At that time we shall also resume the series of Gospel readings from Luke.
The Second Lesson from Acts 16:16-34 is the story of Paul and Silas and their imprisonment. It is the story of “Jailhouse Rock” and if you know anything about rock n’ roll music you know a singer who had a hit song decades ago that you can still hear once in a while. But there is a bigger story in the Second Lesson – it is about being a witness and how that is done.
On this weekend we also celebrate the gift of Christian parents – and especially recognizing those women in our life, be they mothers, grandmothers, aunts, sisters, or dear friends who have nurtured, taught, encouraged and supported us and been a witness of God’s love to us.
Come and rejoice in our worship – not just in a “Jailhouse Rock” but also in the gifts of Word and Sacrament and the gifts that women of faith have given to us!
Next Week’s WORSHIP FOCUS
Pentecost is upon us! This festival celebrates the stirring and sustaining presence of God’s Spirit within the church. The message is that the Christian community, and all of creation itself, relies for life on the sending of God’s Spirit. Pentecost reminds us of God’s extraordinary and powerful freedom. …every nation… all were filled…and everyone who calls on the name…. This freedom breaks boundaries.
The Spirit gives the church its mission and the power to undertake it.
So, we ask …”What mission is the Spirit giving to us and to St. Mark’s?”
The color for the day is RED! Wear it to say, “I’m listening!”
Staff Contact Information Please call the appropriate St. Mark’s staff member or email them if you have questions about the following areas of ministry. You may also visit our web site for more information about St. Mark’s.
Pastoral Staff
Pastor Patricia Geiseman Ext. 15 [email protected] Pastor Paul Olson Ext. 13 [email protected]
Ministry Staff
Kristin Young Ext. 16 [email protected] Director of Worship & the Arts Sue Hilderbrand Ext. 24 [email protected] Director of Bell Choirs Kari Reiseck Ext. 22 [email protected] Director of Children’s Ministries
Support Staff Deb Arcilla Ext. 10 [email protected] Office Manager John Themanson Ext. 19 [email protected] Finance Administrator Gregg Kobliska & Ed Malert Ext. 12 [email protected] Facility Manager Nicole Ferrier Ext. 27 [email protected] Director of Communications Terese Ruppel 630-466-1036 [email protected] Nursery Coordinator
Faith Community Nurse
Jean Clementz, R.N. Ext. 23 [email protected]
Financial Secretary
Jim Erickson 630-897-0291 [email protected]
St. Mark’s Child Development Center Colette Patterson 630-897-6063 [email protected] Interim Director
Council Members
Don Friend (President), Preston Runyan (Treasurer), Rick Jansen (Property), Jeanne Flynn, Julie Simpson, Nicole Ferrier, Lindsay Meyer, Heather Rehg
Prayers
5:00pm Grant Allen, Ron Cunz, Kyle Dea, Beth Edwards, Gary Francis, Kathy Johnson, Ryan Johnson, Mary Kenner, Christopher Knight, Stephanie Lee, Sue Norris
9:00am Kevin Acuff, Lorraine Angell, Barb Barrett, Barbara Bleke, Jenni Granquist, Lonnie Grimes, Ron Hickey, Thomas Pall, Doris Park, Pat Paulus, Annie Placek, Jocelynn Probst, Michael Riehle, Amy Runge, Lorand Szekely, Ernie Torres, Jack Treadman
10:30am Brooke Bess, Dick & Velda Fisher, Dave Frey, Lisa Hoth, Michael Josupait, Michelle Leedham, Frances Sauber
Continuing Care Laurie Dunn, Tad Dyer, Sue Iwert, John Lange, Bruce Lindgren, Julie Michaels, Grant Oestriech, Bob & Wendy Overstreet, Bessie Sclavos
Paul’s Ministry We give thanks to God for the staff, congregation, and ministries at New Light Christian Church ELCA in Palatine, IL.
We pray for comfort and peace for Sue Hilderbrand and family who mourn the death of Sue’s nephew, Ron Paul Hilderbrand of Portland, Oregon. Check us out online!
Head to www.stmarksaurora.net to find online versions of both the Courier and Vineyard, and “Like” St. Mark’s on Facebook to
get the latest updates about our events and programming!
Submissions for the weekly Courier are due each Monday by noon for that weekend’s publication. Submissions for the June Vineyard are due by noon on Monday, May 9th. Submissions will be added in the order in which they are received. Early submissions are always welcomed!
Please email articles for the Vineyard and Courier to Nicole Ferrier at: [email protected] or place handwritten articles in her mailbox. If you have any questions please email or call Nicole at: (630) 897-6891 ext. 27.
Please send all 2016 photos from any St. Mark’s ministry or event to: [email protected].
St. Mark's Lutheran Church 27 South Edgelawn Drive Aurora, Ill inois 60506
Phone: (630) 897-6891 Fax: (630) 897-4842 Web: www.stmarksaurora.net Office Hours: Mon - Fri / 9:00am - 4:00pm Proclaiming Christ's Abundant Love
St. Mark’s Capital Campaign
Child Development Center Update
St. Mark’s Capital Campaign We have begun the planning work on our Capital Campaign! Our logo and theme is below. Our three chairs: Becky Mueller, Rick Reiseck, and Julie Simpson invite your participation and help. If you have not yet signed up, check out next weekend’s bulletin to see how you can Share Our Faith – Secure our Future!
Child Development Center Update There has been a leadership change at the St. Mark’s Child Development Center. Merrilee Parkhurst is no longer our Director. We thank her for the years of leadership and dedication to this ministry. We were able to accomplish much under her direction.
Collette Patterson, our Assistant Director, has been appointed as Interim Director.
