St. Mark's in the Valley Episcopal Church in Los Olivos, CA
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        • Space Use Request
        • Community Kitchen
      • Baptism
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        • Churchyard Memorial Garden
      • Notes on St. Mark's Buildings
      • A Brief History
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      • Altar Guild
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    • 2025 Spring Classic
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      • ENCORES! Virtual Concert Hall
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Sermons

Takeaway of the Crucifixion? March 30, 2018, Good Friday

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​How We Suffer and Die, March 25, 2018, Palm and Passion Sunday

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Drawing all People to Love, March 18, 2018, Lent 5B
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Keeping it Real, March 4, 2018, Lent 3B
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The Risk of Life, February 25, 2018, Lent 2B
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Braving the Wilderness, February 18, 2018, Lent 1B
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Simple Lent, February 14, 2018, Ash Wednesday
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God is Not Invisible, February 11, 2018, Epiphany LastB
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Walking Around Shining Like the Sun, February 4, 2018, Epiphany 5B
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Love is My Name, January 28, 2018, Epiphany 4B
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The Path of Return, January 21, 2018, Epiphany 3B
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Life as Mudslide, January 14, 2018, Epiphany 2B
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Fresh Start, January 7, 2018, Epiphany 1B
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What do you need for Christmas? December 25, 2017, Christmas Day
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What Christmas Will You Give Yourself This Year? December 24, 2017, Christmas Eve
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What is God Planning?, December 24, 2017, Advent 4B
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Among You Stands One You Do Not Know, December 17, 2017, Advent 3B
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What Good News is Beginning in You? December 10, 2017, Advent 2B
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Does It Have To Be Like This? December 3, 2017, Advent 1B
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How We See is What We See, November 26, 2017, Last Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 29A
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Do Not Worry About Your LIfe, November 23, 2017, Thanksgiving Day
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Fear and the God We See, November, 19, 2017, 24th Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 28A
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Who (or What) Are You (Really) Waiting For?, November 12, 2017, 23rd Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 27A
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Mixed Blessing, November 5, 2017, All Saints' Sunday
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Loving, October 29, 2017, 21 Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 25A
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Beyond Identity, October 22, 2017, 20th Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 24A
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Another Feast, October 15, 2017, 19th Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 23A
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Firestone Hall Dedication Remarks, October 8, 2017
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Vulnerable to a Violent World, October 8, 2017, 18th Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 22A​
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Beyond the Gap in the Air, At the Memorial for Trevor McCoy, October 8, 2017
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You Are In the Vineyard, October 1, 2017, 17th Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 21A
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No easy answers, September 24, 2017, 16th Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 20A
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Free for freedom, September 17, 2017, 15th Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 19A
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Correcting Your Inner Tax Collector, September 10, 2017, 14th Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 18A
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A Self Bigger than Death, September 3, 2017, 13th Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 17A
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Who? What?, August 27, 2017, 12th Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 16A
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Beyond the Boundaries, August, 20, 2017, 11th Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 15A
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The Journey and the Journey's End, August 13, 2017, 10th Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 14A
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They didn't see it coming, August 6, 2017, The Feast of the Transfiguration
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Understanding All?, July 30, 2017, 8th Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 12A
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Growing together, July 23, 2017, 7th Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 11A 
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Loving Wastefully, the Sower Sows, July 16, 2017, 6th Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 10A 
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Learning the Unforced Rhythms of Grace, July 9, 2017, 5th Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 9A
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The Challenge of a Cup of Water, July 2, 2017, 4th Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 8A
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Losing Life, Finding Life, June 26, 2017, 3rd Sunday after Pentecost,  Proper 3A
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Priceless, June 18, 2017, 2nd Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 6A
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Communal, Interconnected, Relational, and Loving, June 11, 2017, 1st Sunday after Pentecost: Trinity Sunday
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Sacred Spirit, Our Spirit, June 4, 2017, Day of Pentecost (End of sabbatical)
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Don't Accept Anything As It Is, Burial of Willi Campbell, April 17, 2017
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Many Places To Be, Burial of Peter Knoles, April 4, 2017
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SABBATICAL MARCH, APRIL, MAY, 2017

Your Vision in God's Vision, February 26, 2017, Last Epiphany, (Start of sabbatical)
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February 12 and February 19, 2017, on pilgrimage to Cuernavaca, Mexico, and diocesan Spanish language school.

Good for Anything? February 5, 2017, Epiphany 5A
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Such Tiny Things, or the Fullness of Blessing, January 29 2017, Epiphany 4A
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Not a stained glass vision, January 22, 2017, Epiphany 3A
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Taking the long way, January 15, 2017, Epiphany 2A (Preached at Bethania Lutheran Church, Solvang, California)
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Don't Think About Christmas, December 25, 2016, Christmas Day
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The Stuff of Christmas, December 24, 2016, Christmas Eve
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Any of us can be Mary, December 18, 2016, Advent 4A
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Uncertain. Certain., December 11, 2016, Advent 3A
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The change we long for, December 4, 2016, Advent 2A
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You are here, November 27, 2016, Advent 1A
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“We’ll triumph through our sorrows and rise to bless you still…”, November 13, 2016, Proper 28C
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Mortal bodies, mystical body, November 6, 2016, All Saints' Sunday
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Know who you are, October 30, 2016, Proper 26C
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Could go either way, October 23, 2016, Proper 25C
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Not losing heart, October 16, 2016, Proper 24C
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YOUR Faith.... and the Unexpected, October 9, 2016, Proper 23C
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All Faiths or None, October 2, 2016, Proper 22C
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The Demands of Wealth, September 25, 2016, Proper 21C
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True Riches, September 18, 2016, Proper 20C
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Here and Now, September 11, 2016, Proper 19C
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Where Will You Sit?, August 28, 2016, Proper 17C
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Free to see, Free to Act, August 21, 2016, Proper 16C
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The Present Time, August 14, 2016, Proper 15C
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Treasure, August 7, 2016, Proper 14C
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What Do We Have?, July 31, 2016, Proper 13C
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I Know Where I've Been, July 24, 2016, Proper 12C
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Not Shifting From Hope, July 17, 2016, Proper 11C
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And Who Is My Neighbor?, July 10, 2016, Proper 10C
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What Truly Matters, June 26, 2016, Proper 8C
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Beyond the Boundaries, June 19, 2016, Proper 7C
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Contact Us
Church & General Information:       (805) 688-4454,  [email protected]
Interim Rector, Priest in Charge, Rev. Scott Claassen,  S[email protected]
Preschool Information:                         (805) 688-1815,  ​Yvonne@smitv.org
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St. Mark's-in-the-Valley Episcopal Church & Preschool
​2901 Nojoqui Avenue
Los Olivos, California 93441
Mailing Address
St. Mark's-in-the-Valley Episcopal Church & Preschool
PO Box 39
Los Olivos, California 93441
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