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Monthly Message | December
Grace and peace to you! “A thrill of hope the weary world rejoices For yonder breaks a new and glorious morn” Those are some of the...


Community Events
MOVIE NIGHT: St. Mark is hosting a movie night on Monday, July 7 in the Fellowship Room. We will be showing the Netflix documentary Air...


Social Action
FOOD MINISTRY SUNDAY IS JULY 6: Thank you for your continued help with our food ministries! Our next Food Ministry Sunday is July 6. The...


Around the Allegheny Synod/Region/ELCA
LUTHERAN DAY/FAITH NIGHT AT THE CURVE: Lutheran Day at the Altoona Curve has become a long-standing tradition in the Allegheny Synod....


Monthly Message | November
Grace and peace to you! On the second floor of St. Mark, as you may know, there is a board with the words, “What are you thankful for?” I...


Monthly Message | October
“Next year at this time I am a more loving version of myself and the kingdom of God has come more fully in this community as a result of...


Monthly Message | September
Grace and peace to you! For this space last month, I wrote about how the month of August provides a good time to rest before school year...


Monthly Message | August
Grace and peace to you! Rest. Restore. Connect. Create. These are four practices author Rebekah Lyons writes in her book, Rhythms of...


Monthly Message | July
Grace and peace to you! What unites us? That is a question I have been thinking of lately. In June, the Allegheny Synod, of which St....


Monthly Message | June
Grace and peace to you! It is the summer season, which means … Well, it means different things to different people because summer is like...


Monthly Message | May
Grace and peace to you! Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! Alleluia! Yes, we are still in the Easter season and will be for nearly the...


Monthly Message | April
Grace and peace to you! In a popular and powerful scene from the series, The Chosen, which some have been watching and discussing — and...


Monthly Message | March
Grace and peace to you — and Welcome to Lent! We are in the beginning of our forty days (plus six Sundays) of the season of Lent, which...


Monthly Message | February
Grace and peace to you! February 12 is Super Bowl Sunday, and I am writing this piece knowing that my Dallas Cowboys will once again...
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