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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/ 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. 
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Celebrations - week of September 25
Birthdays 9/25 Kate Firestone 9/25 Anya Mackey 9/25 Greg Lowe 9/26 Jim Pugh 9/27 Shaun Cassidy 9/28 Ivana Firestone 9/28 Jeannie May 9/30 Adam Vesely 10/1 Joan Speirs Anniversaries 9/25 Cailen and Sean Conroy 9/26 Samantha and Robert Stalling 10/1 Mary Beth and Carl Johnson Serving This Sunday, September 25 at 10 am Vestry Officer of the Day (VOD) Priscilla Higgins Acolytes Bob Jennings, Zack Seaman, Xavier Lovering, Willy Lovering Chalice Bearers Mike Brown, Peter Robbins Counters Priscilla Higgins, Barbara Anderson Readers Priscilla Higgins Prayers Lynn Rae Dunn Altar Guild Sue Doherty, Rinda Brown, Darla Cannon Ushers Priscilla Higgins, Candy Waldron Nursery Halle and Harloe Swanson 
Survey about Music at St. Mark's coming soon!
Choir resumes rehearsals in September Choir rehearsals will resume in September Watch for a survey coming soon about music at St. Mark's. 
Pride flag gathers the Community
Hundreds of community leaders and members of the wider community gathered Wednesday, August 10 and Supervisor Joan Hartmann offered both a public statement regarding intimidation of the LGBTQ+ community and remarks with a vision for an inclusive future in Santa Barbara County and the Santa Ynez Valley. A new Pride Flag was raised to replace the one cut down the night of July 27. Copies of Supervisor Hartmann's statement and her remarks and the Rector's remarks on the occasion are available here. A reflection on St. Mark's future
The Rector is offering a special reflection on where we are two and a half years into the disruption of the COVID pandemic: A perspective on the challenges and possibilities of future thriving of St. Mark's-in-the-Valley, Los Olivos, California, buffeted by COVID and other forces of change. Pick up a hard copy today or see it online in our newsletter or on the News tab on our website. Offer your responses or questions in person or by emailing or texting. Now four Sunday services
To provide more options for gathering on Sunday, we now have four services: 8 am, 10 am, 11:30 am and 5 pm. The new 11:30 option is entirely outdoors in the Courtyard and is very brief. The 8 am, 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. Pray with Our Lady of Guadalupe
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Click the file below to learn more about our Community Kitchen project
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. |
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. | ||
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2901 Nojoqui Avenue at Alamo Pintado Avenue Post Office Box 39 Los Olivos, California 93441 |
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