Join a Group
Adult Sunday School
Led by Rick Farnsworth and Carl Harrison
Please register online or contact a study leader to obtain Zoom connection information.
9:30 a.m. Sundays
Room 17/18 and via Zoom
Seekers Bible Study
Led by Brenda Hunter
If you would like to join us, please bring your favorite Bible and a curious mind. Please register online or contact a study leader to obtain Zoom connection information.
11:15 a.m. Sundays
Several Bibles are available in the meeting room.
Room 17/18 or via Zoom
Theo (Theology) Pub
Theo Pub meets at a local restaurant for dinner and conversation around life and faith ideas in a welcoming and inclusive setting. All views entertained with respect.
Register online or for more information, contact info@umcstmarks.org.
6 p.m. the last Monday of each month Location varies.
Bible and a Bite
Led by Chris Shafer
Bring a sack lunch and the latest copy of “The Upper Room” to discuss and break bread together just as Jesus and his disciples broke bread in the upper room.
12:30 p.m. Thursdays at Sanctuary Campus. Please call the church office for more information.
Open Minds Book Group
St. Mark’s Open Minds Book Group will resume monthly meetings in September via Zoom, on the 3rd or 4th Friday of the month from 9:00 – 10:30 AM. New members are welcome!
Co-leaders Celeste Pardee and Ann Reaban are excited to present our Fall lineup on the theme of stewardship, that is, the responsible management and care of resources, organizations, or the people entrusted to us.
Books may be borrowed from the Pima County Public Library or purchased (new or used) from Amazon, Barnes & Noble or Bookshop.org, which supports local booksellers.
Zoom link will be emailed.
September 26: The Orchard: a Memoir, by Adele Crockett Robertson (1997)
After her father’s death, Kitty Robertson leaves her job and moves to her childhood home in the country, determined to preserve her family’s small apple orchard. Single-handedly, she struggles with bone-grinding work, broken machinery, and a mountain of debt during the Great Depression. This is an inspiring tale of courage, goodness, and unexpected rewards during a grim time.
October 24: The Murmur of Bees: a Novel, by Sofia Segovia (2019)
Set during the Mexican Revolution and flu epidemic of 1918, this story captures a town and country in flux and the destiny of one family that adopts a disfigured baby, Simonopio, abandoned under a bridge and covered with bees. As he grows up, this gifted boy, protected by his swarm of bees, is a cause for wonder with his visions of things to come.
November 21: The Dig: a Novel based on True Events, by John Preston (2007)
During the summer of 1939, Mrs. Pretty, the widowed owner of a farm in Suffolk, hires a local man to excavate the earth mounds on her property. When he confirms her hunch that the mounds cover buried treasure, the project attracts professional archeologists and competing museum directors. As the characters seek answers in the burial site, it’s clear that the past is never left behind.
December 19: Dakota: a Spiritual Geography, by Kathleen Norris (2001)
Through meditative stories, Norris offers a timeless tribute to an area of the Great Plains that is both desolate and beautiful, harsh and forgiving, stepped in history and myth. She offers us a “gift of hope and balance, a place to begin” understanding this region and the assurance that wherever we go, we can chart our own spiritual geography.