Posts from March 2017

Posts from March 2017

March Community Lunch

On the last Wednesday of every month the St. Mark Women’s League sponsors a free community lunch. This month’s lunch was well attended on a beautiful, sunny spring day. Pulled pork sandwiches, macaroni and cheese, salad an deserts were the lunch of the day. The St. Mark church bus, “Prayer Force One” headed to the Geauga Senior Center in Chesterland and picked a fun group that sang all the way to St. Mark and all the way back to the Senior Center.…

Easter Baskets for Foster Kids

Every Year St. Mark prepares Easter Baskets as gifts for kids in foster families through Geauga Jobs and Family Services. This Year we have prepared well over 100 baskets. Monica McGurer who co-ordinates this effort, brings empty baskets to church and church members take them home and fill them. Each basket is unique and hand filled by St. Mark members. Monica loads them in a vehicle and takes them to Geauga Jobs and Family Services for distribution. Monica wanted me…

Family Style at Building Hope In The City

On March 25, 2017, a team from St. Mark boarded the church bus, “Prayer Force One” and headed to Building Hope In The City (BHIC), the urban outreach of Trinity Lutheran Church on the near west side of Cleveland. This month’s fare was lasagna, green beans, rolls and HOME MADE cookies. Made by members of the St. Mark congregation. We usually serve cafeteria style where people line up and are handed a tray of food. At the suggestion of Brian…

2017 First Annual Women’s Retreat

On March 18, 2017, St. Mark hosted our first annual Women’s retreat. Attended by approximately 60 women from Saint Mark and a number of Lutheran churches in Northern Ohio. The presenters were Rev. Mark Matzke fromm St. Mark, Rev. Powell Woods from Hope Lutheran Church in Aurora OH and St. Mark member Jackie Rychel, President of Ministry In Mission, a recognized service organization of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod. CLICK HERE TO READ PASTOR MARK MATZKE’S INTRODUCTORY PRESENTATION Many thanks…

March Men’s Breakfast

On March 4, 2017 the men of St. Mark met at The Rise and Dine Cafe in downtown Chesterland for great food, and fellowship Dave Toth, the new head elder at St. Mark , gave a brief presentation on the biblical foundation for elders in the church and the duties of the elders at St. Mark. The Men’s Breakfast Group meets at Rise and Dine on the first Saturday of each month next month os on April 1, 9 am, No…