Weekly E-bulletin

Bishop's Visit

This Sunday, April 6!

We welcome the Rt. Rev. Mark Stevenson, Bishop of Virginia to our 10:30 worship service. Reception with Q&A to follow.

Service Assistants

Sunday, April 6

10:30am

Verger: Paul Shane

First Reading: Beth Wentworth

Second Reading: Isabel Tucker

Intercessor: Cameron Cutro

Chalicer: Frosty Owen

Acolytes: Ryn Kennedy, Elizabeth Kyser

Ushers: Steve Clark, Howard Pugh, Jim Contner, Errol Somay

Greeters: All Greeters

Children's Worship: Malinda Collier 

Nursery: Cassandra Price

Altar Guild: Ivy Burnes, Mickie Jones, Mary Mock, Emma Churchman

Flowers: Lenten Arrangement

Coffee Hour: Parish Life

Alter Guild Zoom Host: Nora Thompson & Malinda Collier

Sunday Readings:

Isaiah 43:16-21

Philippians 3:4b-14

John 12:1-8

Psalm 126

Worship in the

Parish Hall! 

Please join us for worship!

For security and safety reasons the front doors of the church will remain locked with

a sign pointing late comers to the side door.

Please use the side door or elevator entrance.

Lent 2025 - Programs and Offerings

Friday Morning Lenten Healing Prayer with Rev. Sarah Kye Price

March 14, 21, 28, April 4 and 11

8:00am - 8:30am

Lenten Reflections on the Stations of the Cross

Emailed to your inbox Wednesdays and Saturdays, March 8-29

Way of the Cross (Stations of the Cross)

St. Mark's Reads for Lent 2025: 

The Murder of Emmett Till

More information on all of these programs is on our website!

Easter Flower Dedications!

Donate in memory of or in honor of a loved one.

Suggested Donation is $25-50.00

Please donate not later than April 3.

Coffee Hour Teams Needed! 

We begin another year of the Coffee Hour Ministry schedule in June. Each team provides the snacks for four or five Sundays throughout the year.  

On Sunday I asked a very simple question: who here likes Oreo cookies? Just about every hand shot up. The Coffee Hour Ministry has 11 teams, and every team could use one more person to help in the kitchen, on the day. If you have been hesitant to join a team because you think it's too big a load, or you don't cook, or you can't afford hundreds of sandwiches, consider perhaps joining to be the extra set of hands that makes it easier for a team to manage set up and strike. If you feel it wouldn't be fair to join a team and not help provide the food, grab a bag of Oreos and come on over. I promise that they (and you) will be appreciated. If you have any questions or would like to join in, please contact Penny Adams, nbfginc@aol.com.  

Outreach

12-step April 9 host is

Suzanne Long

Don't forget to sign up to host this important ministry! 

New hosts are always welcomed and needed

Training provided.

Contact Suzanne Long for more information. 

Wednesdays 7:30 - 9:30pm

Lenten Service Project

Exam Goody Bags for

PACE at VCU

This year we will be supporting the VCU students who frequent the PACE Center at VCU.

Exam Goody Bags Help Pace encourage wellbeing during exam season.

Recommended items for bags: #2 pencils, erasers, candy, motivational cards, fruit or Nutri-grain bars, small water bottles, gum, tic-tacs, and instant coffee packets or tea.

We'll collect items through Easter Sunday then enlist the help of our youth to load the bags before delivering them to PACE just ahed of exam time.

The PACE Center provides community and fellowship for VCU students. They emphasize food and meals as 40% of VCU students report experience periods of food insecurity.

Read more about PACE on their website.

Food Pantry Call!

We need pop top cans of meat products, hearty soups and stews, chili, ChefBoyArDee pasta products.

Please shop as you are able.

Food Pantry on 2nd and 4th Saturdays!

Shop for our Staples!

List

April 12 Breakfast team is

Ed Street, Robert Lett, Don & Elizabeth Kyser

Contact Karen Franklin if you have a donation or assist with distribution, forpop247@gmail.com

Please remember in your prayers this week:

Parishioners: Barbara and George Summers, George and Malinda Collier, Sam Shute, Anne Kambourian, Jennifer McCauley, Meredith Franklin, the Tucker family, Jerry Long, Kenneth Decker, Garry Land, Bobbie Aiken, Jo Tyler, Mike Craft, Keith MacKay, Betty Leviner, Lisette Johnson, Becky Lee, Steve Row, Margaret Franklin, Phyllis Iverson, Juette Iverson, Marsha Iverson, David Christiana, Samantha Ridley, and Bill Piercy.

Our extended family and friends: Kim Smith, Mary McLenigan, Robert McLenigan, Jean Owen and family, Sally Kye, Daniela and her family, Vanessa Clemons, Conor, Louis Morris, Candace Franco, Andrew and Gretchen Curtain, Debbie Abernathy, Jeffrey Matthews, Sandra Painter, Frank Eberly and family, Ron, Pam, John Golden III, Kathy, Barbara Taylor, Corey Sims, Florence, Edward, Stefan, Olivia, Michelle, Lee Hyden (Anne Kambourian’s daughter), the Dummitt family, the Downey family, Elizabeth and David Hardison, Ginny Jones, Ronnie, Nicholas, the Sonant family, Amy Burks, Kristy Rose, Randi Smith, Marion Broome, and Hollis Daniels.