Join the Mother’s Union for a lovely soup and crusty lunch, with guest speaker from the Stroke Foundation.
Professor Nunn will bring us up to date on some of his research since his last Conversation at St Mark’s in 2019.
The prospect of a world transformed by climate change understandably makes us anxious. Many people believe that this is the first time that humans have ever had to cope with the effects of changing climate. That is quite wrong. Wherever in the world our ancestors lived, they experienced changes of climate thousands of years ago that lasted for generations and had profound and enduring effects on their ways of life.
It is true that many people do not experience the Advent and Christmas season as a period of joy and light. For many - and perhaps more of us than would care to admit it – this season transports our greatest fears, losses, realities and shattered hopes into a time when most people are singing, socialising and enjoying life to the fullest. We may feel even more lost, more abandoned, more lonely and more afraid in this season of light and love. We offer this Blue Christmas service so that together we can name these fears and realities, bring them to the light and allow them to be met by the grace and truth and transforming touch of Immanuel, God with us. Who knows, we may realise the fullest hopes of the season, not through our celebrations and colourful decorations, but by casting our gaze through the darkness to see the approaching light, even if from a great distance.[1]
[1] Adapted from The Introduction to Blue Christmas. Todd Outcalt. Nashville, Upper Room Books, 2018.
Christmas Services from Wednesday 18 December until Wednesday 25 December 2024
Family and Domestic Violence Service with guest speaker Rev’d Margaret Wesley
A joint communal meal with St Mark’s Buderim and the Greek Orthodox Parish of the Sunshine Coast.
BYO picnic lunch and drinks, sweets to share. BBQ will be available on-site.
Come and worship with EVENSONG, sing great Hymns and celebrate with a drink containing PIMMS! Should be a wonderful evening @ St Mark's.
Peace in a polarising world and in your church.
We will be having a celebratory sit down two course luncheon in the church hall. $25.00 per head. Tickets available from 7 April. Sign up sheet on the bench.
Easter Sunday services
5:30am - Lighting of the new fire with renewal of baptismal promises and Holy Communion
7am - Holy Communion
9am- Holy Communion
Morning Prayer at 8:30, followed by Vigil - 9-11am
Good Friday. Solemn Liturgy and Passion and Death of the Lord Vigil
Holy Communion and foot washing.
Vigil including Compline at 8.00pm
Chrism Eucharist service being held in St John’s Cathedral during Holy Week.
Songs of Praise Evensong. Please come and join the singing! Singers are gathering from parishes in our deanery of the Sunshine Coast to provide music and singing for a ‘different’ Sung Evensong on Palm Sunday, 24 March at 5 pm. We hope you will come and enjoy the gathering and refreshments afterwards. Monetary donations welcome.
Please let us know if you can come, to help us with our catering!
A sign up sheet is ready for you at the Church
entrance.
Join us for Palm Sunday at 7am and 9am.
Join us for our regular Conversation, this time on Homelessness.
At St Mark’s we meet to worship on custodial land of the oldest living civilisation in the world. We pay our respects to Kabi Kabi people and their Elders, past, present and emerging, for they hold the hopes, dreams, traditions and cultures of Aboriginal Australia. We acknowledge and respect their spiritual connection to country and their stewardship of the land that now sustains us all.
