PASTORAL and PARISH-RELATED
For more information, contact Saint Mark’s Pastoral Deacon.
MEMBER CARE
The Member Care Meals ministry provides meals to parishioner’s who are in need of help with meals due to illness, recovery, a new baby, bereavement or other situations. If you or someone you know is ill, recovering, or in need of help with meals, or if you would like to help in this ministry, please contact Michele Johnson (614-486-4624). To request Member Care contact the parish office here.
The New Baby ministry provides a welcoming rose and muffins to families with a new baby in the house. If you know of a family with a new baby or would like to help with this ministry, please contact Robbie Hurley (614-374-3068).
MEMORIAL RECEPTION VOLUNTEERS Members bake cookies, make sandwiches, create vegetable or fruit platters, as well as work in the kitchen or serve to offer grieving families and their friends an opportunity to get together and share after a Memorial Service.
Cindy Anderson, Leader
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WEDDING COORDINATION VOLUNTEERS Members meet with the engaged couple and clergy to get all of the details of the upcoming wedding. They provide a tour and a general overview, and help to coordinate access for vendors, the rehearsal and the bridal party. One person is on-site early on the wedding day for last minute help and direction.
Diane Hartney, Coordinator
Contact the Wedding Coordinator here.
Learn more about weddings at Saint Mark’s.
FELLOWSHIP HOUR GUILD Sunday after the 10:30 a.m. service. Members provide coffee, tea, fruit punch, cookies, etc. for the fellowship hour. Men and women (and sometimes their children) volunteer to make or buy cookies, help set–up and serve, or help with clean-up once a month.
Barb Keyes, Coordinator
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PRAYER SHAWL MINISTRY 7:30 p.m. on first and third Tuesdays of the month in the Bishop’s Library. Participants knit or crochet shawls and enjoy the fellowship of knitters with various levels of experience. At the completion of a prayer shawl, all hands touch it while the knitters pray over it. The shawls are distributed to parishioners and others who would benefit from the symbol that they are covered in prayer. New knitters, even beginning ones, are welcome.
Barb Keyes, Facilitator,
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PRAYER CHAIN VOLUNTEERS Confidential intercessory prayer every day for people who have specific issues such as death, illness, job, or family-related issues. Anyone can request these special prayers. Typically a name stays on the list for a month. Prayers can come from the Book of Common Prayer if desired, but do not have to be of a certain form nor said at a certain place or time. Members can pray with whatever words come from the heart and whatever time of day the member chooses and wherever the person may be—for example at a red traffic light. The prayer chain is confidential and is a separate ministry from the Sunday morning prayer list.
Gretchen Hirsch, Head
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LAY EUCHARISTIC VISITORS Members assist the clergy
with bringing Holy Communion to the sick, shut-in, and others unable to attend worship for an extended period of time. Special training is available, and licensing by the diocese is required.
Diane Silliman and Michele Johnson, Leaders
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Learn more about receiving Home Communion.
STEPHEN MINISTERS Assist the clergy by providing a ministry of Christian listening to members of the parish who may be going through a difficult period in their lives. Those who feel called to this ministry apply to the clergy to participate in the training course led by the Stephen Leaders.
Pat Barton, Michele Johnson, and Dianne Silliman, Leaders
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