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Our Sunday Service ​is at 10 am.
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Can you help?
The success of the Summer Classic depends on event Sponsors and donated auction items
This year's Summer Classic is different because we are partnering with an event planner and promoter, En Fuego Events, founded and operation by Andrés Nuño. Much of the energy we spent on details of producing the event we can now spend on making it successful by gathering auction items and event sponsors. Our silent and live auctions both need additional auction items and event sponsorships are available at the $1,000, $2,000, $5,000, and $10,000 levels and make a big difference to how we are able to serve our community in the year ahead. Do you know individuals and businesses to contact to ask them to be a part of supporting our area community through all that St. Mark's does? For donation forms (we can send you a PDF to print or pass along – or make sure you have the printed forms) please contact our Business Manager, Leslie Zuller at leslie@smitv.org.
It's time!
St. Mark's 2022-23 Stewardship Campaign Navigating Together officially launches!
Recent years have meant drastic changes in how we gather, worship, serve, and commune. St. Mark's has navigated through both the toughest of times and the joyous of celebrations in our almost 100 years of existence because we do it together. Today, on Palm Sunday, the Stewardship Committee announces the launch of the 2022-23 campaign - Navigating Together - to promote long-term financial sustainability and growth that will ensure another 100 years of St. Mark's' vitality and relevance in the Santa Ynez Valley.
 
Financial support is vital to carry out the church's work and ministry. We cannot know what lies ahead but we remain confident in the assurance of God's abiding and steadfast love. We prepare for the future with prayer, planning, and the support of St. Mark's parishioners so that the church keeps doing what love requires from a ministry of service - feeding God's sheep. 
 
The Stewardship Committee recognizes that this is a time of significant financial need for St. Mark's, and over the coming weeks we plan to visit every member of the church to talk about how we can all contribute to the sustainability of St. Mark's through time, talent, treasure, and additionally the gifts of ties (inviting others) and testimony (inspiring others through your story of St. Mark's). To proactively set up a visit, please contact Bill Connell at (805) 688-2121 or LynnRae Dunn at (415) 272-6013 
 
Your commitment to Annual Giving means St. Mark's continues to be the body of Christ through our ministries, our work both inside and outside the walls of the buildings, and our care for one another. We hope you will joyfully accept a visit from the Stewardship Committee as together, we navigate what lies ahead. 
 
Bill Connell (805) 688-2121 
wconnell@connellandersen.com
 
LynnRae Dunn (415) 272-6013
lynn.rae1122@gmail.com
​Celebrations - week of May 28
Birthdays
5/28 Maria Andrade
5/28 Claire Tipich
5/29 Merrill Weber
5/29 Paul Johnson
5/30 Sharron Luft
5/30 Stacy Cannon
5/31 Zoryana Morphy
6/3 Philip Hawes
6/4 Margy Houtz

Serving This Sunday, May 28 at 10 am
​Vestry Officer of the Day VOD
Jeannie May, Marnie Olmstead 
Acolytes 
Zack Seaman, Bob Jennings
Chalice Bearers 
Michael Brown, Peter Robbins
Counters 
Priscilla Higgins, Barbara Anderson
Reader 
Penny Knowles
Prayers 
Yvonne Lowe
Altar Guild 
Sue Doherty, Rinda Brown, Darla Cannon
Ushers 
Priscilla Higgins, Rich Nagler
Childcare
Halle and Harloe Swanson

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. 
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
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.
Address & Directions
2901 Nojoqui Avenue at Alamo Pintado Avenue
Post Office Box 39
Los Olivos, California 93441
Contact
info@smitv.org
Church messages 805-688-4454
Preschool 805-688-1815