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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.
Monday, August 16 at 5:15 pm
Grief Group meets on third Mondays
Our Grief Group gathers Monday, August 16  (and on the 3rd Monday of each month) at 5:15 pm in the Common Room. The group is led by an experienced facilitator, Anna Cook, who brings significant experience and training to the leadership of the group. Please pass the word about this resource. All are welcome at this non-sectarian program to regain strength after loss.

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 July 25
Birthdays
7/25 Mick Kelleher
7/27 Joshua Billington 
7/28 Leslie Zuller  
7/30 Maksym Morphy
7/30 Alexandra Savage
7/30 Rob Stalling
7/31 Charlie Brewer
7/31 Canon G.H. “Hank” Mitchel
8/1 James Shupe
From the Rector
Thank you, Rev. Courtney!
The Rev. Courtney Tan and I have been in conversation and agreed that we have reached the conclusion of her pastoral ministry at St. Mark's-in-the-Valley. 
Her final service at St. Mark's will be 10 am Sunday, August 1, a service which will include prayers for leave-taking and a special reception celebration in her honor following.
Rev. Courtney came to us during COVID, and her service during this peculiar season of uncertainty and disruption has been a special gift. She came for a six-month stay almost 13 months ago, as COVID continued.
As we move out of the pandemic time, while not "back to normal," she is spending more time on her search, interviewing, and visiting and gaining more experience in other parishes.
St. Mark's has happily benefitted from Rev. Courtney's presence, and, at the same time, needs to focus on who we are and what we are moving into as the future unfolds, a future that does not include a second priest on staff, continuing to rely on the active involvement of lay leaders, lay members, and part-time lay staff.
I know you join me in thanksgiving to God for the privilege of having her service among us and prayers for her ongoing discernment and search.

From Rev. Courtney:
"This past year at St. Mark’s has been a blessing and a gift. During a time marked by closures and distancing, St. Mark’s and Reverend Randall opened their hearts and extended a welcome greater than any I ever anticipated. St. Mark’s has been a place for me to hone my skills in the art of priestcraft, in ministry, to use my knowledge and skills, and to grow and learn. As I leave, I will always carry with me the lived ethos of St. Mark’s; all are welcome, all have a place, and responding positively to unanticipated situations leads to wonderful things."

​Saturday, August 28, 2021
5:30-8:30 pm

Planning is moving ahead and the Summer Classic is taking shape for the fun, low-key gathering of SYV and Santa Barbara County community friends and supporters that we missed having last year. This event gathers support for our Open Doors program, for our Community Center and Arts Venue initiatives, for St. Mark's Preschool, and for the SYV Community Kitchen at St. Mark’s.

Members of St. Mark’s join in to create the gathering with a wine reception, dinner (Chef Jake Francis and the Valley Piggery Team!), and music, a small silent and small live auction and, most of all, time to enjoy the relationships and caring that make so much possible for our neighbors in the wider community.

We will also be offering salutes to honor some key community figures at this simplified, casual Summer Classic event in our Courtyard on Saturday, August 28 from 5:30-8:30 pm. Really fun and interesting “ya’ll come” auction packages (where you just bid for your seat and enjoy the event with others) are part of the plans - including The Kitchen Cabaret with local chefs and musicians offering their prodigious talents to further launch the SYV Community Kitchen at St. Mark’s.

Something in particular you want to offer to the success of the Summer Classic? Plans are developing; if you have ideas or want to be involved in planning or working on the gathering, please contact co-chairs Peter Wright, (805) 452-1075, peter.wright.805@gmail.com and Karen Johnson (805) 451-5236), gregkarn@comcast.net).

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 was 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 and Rev. Courtney Tan 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