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10 am In-Person & Online Sunday Service
On Sundays: Holy Eucharist in the church with seating outdoors in the Courtyard for those who wish, also online.
Everyone who wishes is welcome to receive communion.
One Sunday service
A recording will be available to view anytime after the service
on our website and on Facebook.

Join via Zoom – click this link:
http://smitv.info/Sunday10am

OR manually enter meeting ID and password into Zoom Meeting Client
Meeting ID: 845 7856 1732
Passcode: 204530
 
OR One tap mobile on your phone
+16699006833,,84578561732#,,,,,,0#,,204530#
 
OR Dial your phone and manually enter meeting ID and password
+1 669 900 6833
+1 253 215 8782
 
Meeting ID: 845 7856 1732
Passcode: 204530

OR go to Facebook Live (no need to join the Zoom meeting)
https://www.facebook.com/stmarksinthevalley/
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OR wait for the recording to be posted to our Facebook page or website.You will find a button on the homepage of the website that will take you directly to the Online Services page.
At St. Mark’s Sunday at 2 pm
Welcome to a Winter Choral Concert
Sunday afternoon at 2 pm at St. Mark's, you are invited to a Winter Choral Concert with the combined choirs of St. Mark’s-in-the-Valley Episcopal Church Choir, Allan Hancock College Choirs, Nichole Dechaine, director, and Santa Barbara City College Choirs, Nathan Kreitzer, director. Enjoy GLORIA! Songs of Hope and Harvest,featuring Vivaldi's Gloria with chorus, soloists, and organ. Soloists include Dr. Nichole Dechaine, Angeline Petronijevic, Alexx Asencio & Ravinia Lee, Bethany Le and Laura Coors. With Thomas Joyce, organist and Anne Weger, accompanist.
Financial Donations for food welcome
Christmas Baskets all sponsored
If you want to participate in the Christmas basket program, serving our SYV neighbors in need, but do not have a family to sponsor, please consider a financial donation for the food bins that go with each box. Donations to St. Mark’s with a note “for Christmas Baskets program” will be passed along quickly to help.
If you are sponsoring a family, please bring your gift boxes to the Old Mission Santa Inés on December 13, 14 or 15 from 10 am – 5 pm.
Also, do you have family #12? Please let Pat Fallin know — and feel free to reach out to her with other Christmas basket questions: Pat Fallin at 805-245-9075 (cell/text).
Thanksgiving project with incredible work by many volunteers helps fill the tables of area food insecure neighbors and friends
Two large bins of mainly butternut squash were cleaned, roasted, seeds removed, seasoned, put into containers and made a side dish for distribution with Thanksgiving turkeys to our local neighbor families in need.  Gratitude to all who helped on three very busy days in the kitchen and to Chef Stephanie Valentine who guided the creation.  The SYV Community Kitchen produced 150 2-pound side dishes of Roasted squash with dried cranberries and pecans and 180 quarts of Winter Squash Soup with Poblano and Chipotle chiles. Candy Waldron (candy@thewaldrons.com) organized volunteers and teams and coordinated the work. Diana O'Connell and Veggie Rescue made the connection with food donor Tutti Frutti Farms -- and also distributed the side dishes and soup. 

Much gratitude for new and expanding relationships and for an incredible gift to our community - the essence of Thanksgiving!

The Community Kitchen page on our website is now live.

Click the file below to learn more about our Community Kitchen project

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Participate in any of St. Mark’s Ministries
At. St. Mark’s, anyone is welcome to participate in anything. Everything we do is a ministry of imperfection. We aim for perfect, but get whatever we get (sometimes VERY good!), and thank God that everything we do is handmade and a work of love.
CLICK TO READ MORE: Ministries
Contact Frances Schultz or use online form
Prayer List and Prayer Chain available
The prayer chain and the prayer list are available to you.
CLICK TO READ MORE: Prayer List & Prayer Group Available 
For prayer requests, you can also use the online Prayer Request  (also find a hotlink on our home page at smitv.org .)
Adding St. Mark's to your estate planning
Planned giving is enormously important to the long-term life of St. Mark's-in-the-Valley.
CLICK FOR MORE INFORMATION: Estate Planning
Clergy and staff email addresses
CLICK FOR ALL CLERGY AND STAFF EMAIL ADDRESSES: Clergy & Staff Email Addresses
Monday Meals on Wheels
Volunteer Opportunity welcomes you
Do you have a free hour once a month to help serve our wider community?
Every Monday throughout the year (52 Mondays including Monday holidays) St. Mark’s has a team of volunteers that deliver hot lunches to our area homebound. Our team delivers Route 1 which covers the Solvang area. The route takes about an hour and meals are picked up at around 11 am from Atterdag Village.
We are in need of new volunteer drivers. A volunteer typically does the route once a month or every other month. Please contact Billy Hurbaugh (text or call 805-245-4099) for more information or to sign up.
​Learn more…
…about our Santa Barbara County Food Action Plan and how ourCommunity Kitchen can help address the priority goals of the Plan — and help our neighbors be healthier and more food secure.
Celebrations - week of December 5
Birthdays
12/5 Joe Olla
12/6 Melanie Eckford-Prossor
12/6 Ella Walker
12/6 Catherine Allen
12/6 Hannah Allen
12/6 Eli Udkow
12/8 Silvia Lucatero
12/9 Sandie Mullin
12/10 Mariko Braswell
12/11 Carolyn Lawrence
12/11 Hunter Rusack
12/11 Quinn Stacy 
12/11 Oliver Conroy  
12/12 Jim Lohnas
 Anniversaries
12/5 Renee and Mick Kelleher
12/8 Cathy and Steve Pepe

Serving This Sunday, December 5 at 10 am
Vestry Officer of the Day (VOD)
Peter Wright
 
Lighting the Advent Wreath

Acolytes

Chalice Bearers

Counters
Jeannie May
Marnie Olmstead
 
Reader
Kate Firestone
 
Prayers
Brooks Firestone

Altar Guild
Yvonne Lowe
Elida Ambler
Mary Beth Johnson
 
Usher
Angie Janes
Many hands make light work…
Join in Women’s Guild luncheon setup?
A note from Jill Bader: The Women’s Guild is setting up tables for the Christmas luncheon (which is Saturday, December 11) at 2:30 pm on Friday, December 10 in Stacy Hall. It’s a good time for us to get together and, as my grandmother said, many hands make light work.
Choir singing in services
Choir rehearsals on Thursdays at 7
St. Mark's Choir is now singing for Sunday services! Weekly rehearsals are on Thursdays at 7 pm and Sunday morning rehearsals are at 9:15 am. Join in when you can. Please dress warmly as all doors and windows will be open - and be sure to wear a mask! Hope to see all of you on Thursday! Singing in the choir is an activity for vaccinated folks.
Women’s Guild Christmas Luncheon is fully subscribed
The women of St. Mark's are happy that this year's Christmas Luncheon on Saturday, December 11 is a sellout! We are looking forward to being together and celebrating the holiday season. As a reminder, this is an activity for vaccinated folks only and space is limited to 80. Health continues to be a prime consideration.

Pray with Our Lady of Guadalupe
​at St. Mark's-in-the-Valley

All are invited to come by St. Mark's-in-the-Valley to pray with Our Lady of Guadalupe anytime. Her Feast Day is December 12. A folder of prayers and coloring pages for children are prepared and in the church. Colorful flowers, traditionally presented to Guadalupe on her feast day, were made by St. Mark's Preschool children. Thanks to Yvonne Lowe for assisting with the preparations. Thank you to Leslie Zuller and to the "Frame Lady" Susan Granger for assisting with our Guadalupe image, cleaning and framing in time for her feast day.

La Señora de Guadalupe, first appeared to a peasant named Juan Diego on December 12, 1531, in Tepeyac Hill, in modern day Mexico City. Speaking to him in Nahuatl, the language of the Mexica (or Aztec), she asked that a shrine or church be built on that spot. A series of appearances followed.
After the first appearance, Juan Diego visited Juan de Zumárraga, who was Archbishop of what is now Mexico City. Zumárraga dismissed him in disbelief and asked that Juan Diego provide proof of his story and proof of the Lady’s identity.
Juan Diego returned to the hill and encountered La Señora de Guadalupe again. She told him to climb to the top of the hill and pick some flowers to present to the Archbishop.
Although it was winter and nothing should have been in bloom, Juan Diego found an abundance of flowers of a type he had never seen before. The Virgin bundled the flowers into Juan's cloak (tilma in Spanish).
When Juan Diego presented the tilma of exotic flowers to Zumárraga, the flowers fell out and he recognized them as Castilian roses, which are not found in Mexico. What was even more significant, however, was that the tilma had been miraculously imprinted with a colorful image of La Señora de Guadalupe herself.
The tilma, preserved since that date shows the familiar image of the Virgin of Guadalupe, an indigenous woman standing on a crescent moon, wrapped in stars on her mantle, with a sunburst of light emanating from her.
The image has layers of meanings and associations for indigenous people, and people of Mexican descent generally, many of whom recognize in her the Mexica goddess Coatlaxopeuh, another name for Earth Mother Tonantzin, to whom offerings were made on that same hill of Tepeyac hundreds of years before the arrival of the Spaniards.
The tilma is the most sacred object in Mexico. Among many, she is considered to be the Queen of Mexico and Patroness of the Americas. Over 20 million people visit the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe each year, now situated on the very same hill on which she initially appeared to Juan Diego.
La fiesta de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe (Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe) is celebrated in Mexico, the United States, and in many countries around the world on December 12 each year. 
Address & Directions
2901 Nojoqui Avenue at Alamo Pintado Avenue
Post Office Box 39
Los Olivos, California 93441
Contact
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Preschool 805-688-1815