Pastor’s Weekly Message


21
Jul 2023
Holding Space for Conflicting Emotions

My daughter turns 14 this week. She’s my youngest, the one who thinks and acts a lot like her father but who looks so much like me. We have photos of each of us at 6 months old; we are so similar! This has continued even now; she served communion this last month, and someone in the communion line told her, “You are definitely your mother’s daughter!” Princess Mercy, as we called her in the womb, was born two weeks early, on a Sunday morning. It was not very considerate of her,......

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Our Pastors and Their Roles

Our Pastors and Their Roles

At Annual Conference this year, I took photos with several former Associate Pastors from here at St. Mark’s. You’ll see in the photo above Jonathan Arnpriester (1992-1996), Jennifer Hageman (2006-2011), Tom Jelinek (2005-2006) and...


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Audacity

Audacity

Audacious! So many of you mentioned my shoes on Sunday. Mine are in the photo above, the pair on the bottom left. They are high, impractical, a little too big (the danger of online...


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Liminal Space

Liminal Space

Greetings Church Family, This is Pastor Stuart writing to you, from the “liminal space” Pastor Lynn spoke about several weeks ago in her sermon. In case you missed this message, liminal space is that...


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