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On Sundays, services at 8 am (In-Person), 10 am (In-Person and Online), 11:30 am (In-Person, entirely outdoors) and at 5 pm (In-Person). All doors and windows will be open in the church for safety.
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.
The 5 O'Clock Service has returned
Our 5 O'Clock Service provides an alternative gathering time that works for a number of individuals and families – and also offers an alternative liturgy and style of worship for those who prefer it. A more contemplative and casual service, the 5 o'clock is a relaxed but brief Eucharistic (communion) service that gathers around the altar in the church. Not for everyone, but it may work for you or someone you know. It's short enough that you can usually plan to be somewhere else around 6.

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 May 22
Birthdays
5/22 Paula Hunsicker
5/23 Jill Bader
5/23 Kirby Cannon
5/23 Linda Kettelhut
5/23 Hannah Mesikep
5/26 Elizabeth Graham
5/26 Caralyn Barber
5/28 Maria Andrade
5/28 Claire Tipich
5/29 Ward Rafferty
5/29 Merrill Weber
5/29 Paul Johnson
Anniversaries
5/24 Sandra Kenny and Efrain Morales
Serving This Sunday, May 22 at 10 am
Vestry Officer of the Day (VOD)
Marnie Olmstead
Acolytes
Zack Seaman, Xavier Lovering, Willy Lovering
Chalice Bearers
Peter Robbins
Counters
Priscilla Higgins, Maureen McKenna
Reader
Yvonne Lowe
Prayers
Mary Beth Johnson
Altar Guild
Sue Doherty, Darla Cannon, Sharron Luft
Ushers
Priscilla Higgins, Candy Waldron
Advancing community. Inspiring generosity.
Planning for Summer Classic Moves Ahead
Save the date June 25, 2022, 5:30-8:30 pm for this year's Summer Classic, the event that gathers our wider community in support of our service to the Santa Ynez Valley region. We will gather on St. Mark's grounds for a fun, casual, summer evening with great food, wine & conversation with friends and neighbors who support this vibrant community hub serving the Santa Ynez Valley.
 
Recent big news is Ken Hollister is returning as our auctioneer, after filling that role last summer in a way that truly made the event special. With deep connections to St. Mark's-in-the-Valley, Ken's gift of serving in this way is a big boon to our 2022 planning.
 
He joins Chef Jake O. Francis, who returns to provide the meal, after an enthusiastic reception of his talents and his team in 2021. The team at Gavin Roy Presents will be providing lighting, sound, and music as they have for the past several years, led by Gavin himself. We are grateful for his continued participation which assures that technical support of the event a sure thing. The few items we need to rent from Bright Event Rentals are already ordered.
 
Leslie Zuller is assembling her administration and cashier team and will be assisted by Silvia Lucatero and returning team leader Nick Zigler. Yvonne Lowe is assisting with organizing table setup, linens, and table settings. Save the date cards are at the printer and will be mailed soon. The save the date social media campaign is already underway. Our Communications Director Valerie Cantella has the broader work of publicity on her calendar and will launch into the first phases of it after Holy Week and Easter.
 
As always, many volunteers and table sponsors are needed in all phases of this event that is an inspiring gathering of our many wider-community friends who enable our service of the SYV region through the SYV Community Kitchen, St. Mark's Preschool, the SYV Concert Series and our work as a community center, arts venue and welcome center for area residents and visitors. This event is part of what helps us have open doors for people of all faiths and none, day in and day out
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.
A new, short 8 am service will start March 6
Now three Sunday services, a fourth on the way
To provide more options for gathering on Sunday, we now have three services 10 am, 11:30 am and 5 pm. The new 11:30 option is entirely outdoors in the Courtyard and is very brief. The 10 am and 5 pm are in the church with all doors and windows open and are shorter services. The 10 am is also online on Zoom and Facebook Live. On the 1st Sunday of Lent, March 6, a new, very brief 8 am service (our 4th Sunday service) will start, to accommodate schedules of people who want to be present on Sunday, but need to come to church early. This new service will be 30 minutes or less.

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
info@smitv.org
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Preschool 805-688-1815