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10 am In-Person & Online Sunday Service
Holy Eucharist outdoors in the Courtyard on Sundays.
Everyone who wishes is welcome to receive communion.
Masks and physical distancing continue for now.
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.
The Great Cross now at St. Mark's-in-the-Valley

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

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​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.
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 Jeannie May 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 .)
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“Glean” from stores for hungry neighbors
Do you have 40 minutes or so one morning a week to provide a regular delivery of food for hungry neighbors?
CLICK FOR MORE INFORMATION: Glean from stores
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
Celebrations - week of May 16
Birthdays
5/16 Peter Firestone
5/18 Diane Byington
5/18 Matthew Firestone
5/19 Nicholas Seaman
5/21 Nick Zigler
5/22 Paula Hunsicker
5/23 Jill Bader
5/23 Kirby Cannon
5/23 Randall Day
5/23 Linda Kettelhut
5/23 Hannah Mesikep​
Back in the Church – Pentecost – May 23
We return to indoor worship (with open doors and open windows) that will include seating outdoors in the Courtyard, near the church building on the Day of Pentecost, Sunday, May 23 at 10 am.
 
Recognition Sunday June 6
We will be recognizing all the successes and completions happening at this time of the year - graduations, moving up from middle school to high school, at least one EFM (Education for Ministry) graduation and other special celebrations at the 10 am service on Sunday June 6. Do you know of members and close friends of St. Mark's-in-the-Valley we should be recognizing this year? Please contact Director of Christian Formation, Tasha Morphy at tasha@smitv.org.

Time for a change….
Thank you, Tasha!
Our Coordinator of Christian Formation for Children and Youth, Tasha Morphy, will complete her work at St. Mark's on Recognition Sunday, June 6. She writes, "After nearly four years of service at St. Mark’s it is with a heavy heart that I submit my resignation. My last day will be Sunday, June 6. I am so grateful for the lasting relationships I have made here and the wonderful community of people I have been fortunate to work with. Thank you for the opportunity to have helped form and guide the children and youth of St. Mark’s.”

Tasha, Zach and family will continue to be part of St. Mark's faith community so this is not a farewell but a time to be grateful and hopeful for new future challenges and joys. We will miss her energetic contributions to our Christian Formation program and to many other areas of the life of St. Mark's in her role on staff.
 
Bishop's Visit June 13
The Rt. Rev. John Taylor, Bishop of Los Angeles, our diocesan bishop, plans to visit St. Mark's-in-the-Valley on Sunday, June 13 at 10 am. The Vestry is beginning to plan priorities for the visit. Bishop Taylor with preside and preach at the Eucharist that day.
 
Bishop Taylor began ministry as seventh bishop of the six-county Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles on Dec. 1, 2017. He was ordained to the episcopate on July 8, 2017 at a service at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion of the Los Angeles County Music Center, with Presiding Bishop Michael Curry as chief consecrator.
 
Summer Classic – August 21
Initial conversations have begun to enjoy a simplified, casual Summer Classic event in our Courtyard on Saturday, August 21. Plans are just now in formation (if you have ideas or want to be involved in planning or working on the event, please contact co-chairs Peter Wright, (805) 452-1075, peter.wright.805@gmail.com and Karen Johnson (805) 451-5236), gregkarn@comcast.net). This year's event will have the primary focus of gathering the many members of the community who care about the various elements of our community service work and rebuild our relationships following the separation of the pandemic. This event gathers support for our Open Doors program, for our Community Center and Arts Venue initiative, for St. Mark's Preschool, and for the SYV Community Kitchen at St. Mark's.
Stop by to pick up a copy or let Silvia Lucatero (silvia@smitv.org) know if you would like one mailed or dropped off at your home (doorstep delivery).

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. 
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.
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