St Mark's Episcopal Church

Centering Prayer
2024-09-27 09:00 - 10:00, 2024-10-02 08:30 - 09:30, 2024-10-04 09:00 - 10:00, 2024-10-09 08:30 - 09:30, 2024-10-11 09:00 - 10:00, 2024-10-16 08:30 - 09:30, 2024-10-18 09:00 - 10:00, 2024-10-23 08:30 - 09:30 (America/Los_Angeles) and 2 more dates | Kennedy Room – St. Marks, 600 Colorado Ave, Palo Alto, California, 94306
Gather to spend time with God in quiet communion and Centering Prayer

8 a.m. Liturgy at Chapel of St. Mary Magdalene
2024-09-29 08:00 - 09:30, 2024-10-06 08:00 - 09:30, 2024-10-13 08:00 - 09:30, 2024-10-20 08:00 - 09:30, 2024-10-27 08:00 - 09:30 | Chapel of St. Mary Magdalene, 600 Colorado Ave, Palo Alto, CA, 94306

10 a.m. Liturgy
2024-09-29 10:00 - 11:30, 2024-10-06 10:00 - 11:30, 2024-10-13 10:00 - 11:30, 2024-10-20 10:00 - 11:30, 2024-10-27 10:00 - 11:30 | Sanctuary, 600 Colorado Ave, Palo Alto, CA, 94306

Liturgical Ministry Training
2024-09-29 11:30 - 12:30
Gather in the church on a NEW DATE, Sunday Sept. 29 after the 10:30 liturgy, if you serve as a Greeter, Lector, or Chalice Bearer – or if you’d like to begin! We will be sharing about our experiences, and what it means as Christians to serve in these ministries, answering questions, and then doing trainings for any newcomers with each group.

We also begin the process of reviving the Lay Eucharistic Visitor ministry and invite people who may be able to pray with and bring the Eucharist to homebound parishioners to come for conversation.

Questions? Email Rev. Nancy at [nancy@saint-marks.com]

Michaelmas Evensong
2024-09-29 17:00 - 20:30 | Sanctuary, 600 Colorado Ave, Palo Alto, CA, 94306
On Sunday September 29 at 5:00 p.m. the combined choirs of St. Mark’s and four neighboring parishes will present a Michaelmas Evensong here at St. Mark’s. Music includes selections by Herbert Howells, Charles Stanford, and Richard Webster, and Bishop Austin Rios will be present. All are welcome, and a reception follows the service. See you there!

Choir Rehearsal
2024-10-03 19:30 - 21:00, 2024-10-10 19:30 - 21:00, 2024-10-17 19:30 - 21:00, 2024-10-24 19:30 - 21:00 | Sanctuary, 600 Colorado Ave, Palo Alto, CA, 94306

Annual Parish Retreat
2024-10-11 - 2024-10-13
The Parish Retreat at beautiful Bishop’s Ranch in Healdsburg is a weekend of fun, fellowship, and spiritual nourishment. There will be social gatherings, music, story sharing, fulsome and creative worship, free time, activities for children, great food, walks and surprises…

St. Marks Book Club
2024-10-15 14:00 - 16:00 | Kennedy Room – St. Marks, 600 Colorado Ave, Palo Alto, California, 94306
The St. Mark’s Book Club is a group of dedicated readers who gather to discuss great books! We meet every 3rd Tuesday of each month at 2 p.m
Email Kathy Gillam, kgillamk@stanford.edu, for more information and to be added to the group email.

Oct. 20 Stewardship Brunch & Pledge Campaign Launch
2024-10-20 11:30 - 12:30 | Parish Hall, 600 Colorado Ave, Palo Alto, CA, 94306, United States
You are invited, Sunday October 20, to the annual brunch and launch of our 2025 Pledge Campaign. St. Mark’s largest financial support comes from each of you through a financial pledge commitment in addition to your time and talents for ministry.
Sunday, October 20, we’ll hear from our own Marina Martin, this year’s stewardship preacher, as we launch our 2025 Pledge Campaign: Grace in Action. Following church, we’ll have an opportunity to review the projected budget for 2025 and join together for a brunch sponsored by the Stewardship Commission.
Look for a mailing around October 15 with more information to share and prepare you for this year’s campaign. We rely on and are thankful for your generous support of St. Mark’s, especially as we continue in this Season of Transition.

Strategic Stakeholder Conversations #2
2024-10-27 11:30 - 12:30
Sunday, October 27 will be the second of three strategic stakeholder conversations. These conversations will cover five different areas as part of a Fall Vestry Initiative.
In September, over 60 St. Markers participated in our first round of these conversations. This effort continues the Vestry’s attention on the strategic planning begun in 2022 and continuing in the Season of Transition as St. Mark’s searches for a new rector. Our hope with these conversations is to rebuild our strategic muscles post-covid with increased capacity, flexibility, and adaptability as a parish. Our intention is not to fix or solve anything. We aren’t solutions-focused in these groups. Our conversations will invite us to dwell with the core values and fundamentals of our faith and open us to the possibilities for the future as your new Rector joins the Vestry in carrying forward the strategic vision for St. Mark’s.
More information closer to the day about meeting locations and times.
Here are the five Strategic Stakeholder Groups and their foundational questions:
Care and Connection: What comes to mind as you reflect on the importance of care and connection at St. Mark’s? What could it look like for the church to take an appreciative approach to its ministry, focused on the particular lives of our members and potential members (instead of a model where the church exists to fill roles and structures that may have been designed around a different approach in a previous era)? Facilitator: Randy Smith | Scribe: Marina Martin
Christian Formation: What kinds of things might a Christian/baptized member of St. Mark’s know/practice connected in their faith? How do we creatively and joyfully form them, at any age, into these things? Facilitator: Kathy Gilliam | Scribe: Crystal Larsen
Serving Christ in Others: What are the kinds of things the Christians disciples are called to beyond Sunday morning, what of those things are part of our calling, and what partnerships might augment our communal impact in those kinds of things for all ages? Facilitator: Jonake Bose | Scribe: Martha Chan
Worship: How is our worship inclusive of the voices and gifts of our members? How do we redevelop the structures of liturgical ministries to be partners of the clergy in the care of worship? Facilitator: Cheryl Miller | Scribe: Stuart Sailer
Funding our Mission: With all of the possibilities above and more, how do we resource St. Mark’s ministry on a 3, 5, and 10 year horizon? What other considerations/permutations do each of our stakeholders contribute to this planning? Facilitator: Jonathan Luk | Scribe: Tom Jenkins
