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The Evangelist
The Episcopal Church of St. Mark the Evangelist
EASTER
The noted jurist Oliver Wendell
Holmes once wrote, “Life is a great
bundle of little things.” Eventually life
becomes a series of daily routines that
provide a framework out of which we
live. Moment by moment our attention
is taken by the innumerable details that
need doing on any given day. These
routines are sometimes broken by great
events, some sort of retreat from the
ordinary, unexpected occurrences and
sometimes the loss of someone we love.
If you can try to put yourself with those
disciples who were followers of Jesus
two centuries ago, it seems clear that
none of them expected everything to
end so violently and quickly on the
cross on Good Friday. They had gone
to Jerusalem for an annual celebration
of the Seder, probably glad to be going
to the big city, and full of anticipation
for this was a break in their routine.
Then everything collapsed, and the
world fell apart, and Jesus was dead.
None of them expected what came
next, the resurrection and the promise
of a very extraordinary new beginning. It was terrific. But when I try to
put myself in their shoes, or should I
say sandals, I am reminded how often
I take the great blessings of my life for
granted. I can grouse at the people I
love, I can get overwhelmed by the
mundane, I can be bored by routines,
not ever realizing that these are the
great bundle of little things that make
life so blessed. The moments we share
are gifts from God not to be taken
lightly. The same is true of the people
we share those moments with each day.
I am sure that those disciples were
shocked and devastated at Jesus’ death,
and that they thought of all the things
they wished they had said or had done
while he was alive, and you know that
they got their second chance. The resurrection is our reminder not to forget
or take for granted what we hold sacred: the people we love, our work, our
families, our friends and our Church.
And so when we say Alleluia Christ is
Risen, let his rising in our hearts lead
us each day to see those extraordinary
blessings.
Fr. Bob Trache
April 2015
APRIL BIRTHDAYS:
Laney Bauer
Muriel Bonitto
Jennifer Cooper
Preston Courtney
Denese Edsall
Javier Estrada
Kent Fox
Glenn Garvin
Nicole Green
Sean Guerin
Abigail Gundlach
Tracy Hamm
Madison Harris
Jonathan High
Michael High
Colette Hill
Cynthia Hines
Ashley Hirsch
Brian Leary
Dana Lisabet
Jack Long
Barbara Lotz
Courtney Marshall-Muller
Marjorie McBean
John McCormick
Thomas McGinty
Chuck Millspaugh
Roberta Mowry
Barry Picchiarini
Frank Picciotti
David Pointer
Mo. Liza Ragsdale
Verra Roth
Dyan Ruhana
Sandra Sampson
Becky Schmidt
Sabrina Spada
Lea Tilbury
Joan Tomlinson
Samantha Weick
Lissa Welborn
Nicoletta Williams
Rector and Head of School
[email protected]
MAUNDY THURSDAY EUCHARIST – April 2
8:05 a.m. and 7:00 p.m.
GOOD FRIDAY – April 3
12:00 Noon – 3:00 p.m. l Stations of the Cross
EASTER
Festival Eucharist – April 5
8:00 a.m. l Choral Eucharist, Rite I (choir, brass, and timpani)
9:15 a.m. l Family Eucharist, Rite II, followed by Butterfly Release
11:00 a.m. l Choral Eucharist, Rite II (choir, brass, and timpani)
CHURCH PREPARATION
Mrs. Audrey Choy, and the Altar Guild,
along with all LEM’S, and USHERS invite
you to help prepare our Church for EASTER! We will gather at 1:00 p.m. in the
Church, on Holy Saturday, April 4. Come
and join the fun while we make our
Church shine and feeding our Easter butterflies! Please contact Mrs. Audrey Choy,
Chair of the Altar Guild at 954-485-8511
to volunteer.
SAVE THE DATE
ADULT EDUCATION
April 12, 19 and 26
GUEST PREACHER AND
PASTORAL
EMERGENCIES
April 7-22, 2015
Please keep Father Bob and Mother
Liza in your prayers while they journey
through Jerusalem beginning April 7-22,
2015. The Venerable Thomas Bruttell,
Archdeacon of Deployment, beloved
friend to many of you and a wise counselor to St. Mark’s Episcopal Church and
School, will be our guest preacher on
Sunday April 12, and April 19. If you have
a pastoral emergency, during April 7-22,
2015, please contact Father Ron Hayde
at: 954-560-2802, or Father Fred Johnson
at 954-533-2111. Please know that either
one of them, upon receiving your call,
will contact you as humanly possible. And
please know that Father Bob and Liza will
be praying for each of you daily to be well
and safe, while they’re away.
SUNDAY HOLY EUCHARISTS
8:00 a.m. - Rite I
9:15 a.m. - Rite II - Family Service
10:00 a.m. - Sunday School/Adult Ed.
11:00 a.m. - Rite II
Please note that our Church and School
Offices will be closed for Spring Break,
beginning Monday, April 6.
The offices will reopen on
Monday, April 13 at 8:00 a.m.
Join us for an academic exploration of
our Episcopal worldview and investigate
some of the fundamental ways in which
our religious understandings both bind
us to, and separate us from, other peoples
of faith around the world. Rick Bauer,
our Postulant for Holy Orders, will lead
us in an overview of Ninian Smart’s Six
Dimensions of Religious Experience to
generate a working paradigm through
which we can assess our understandings
of myth, doctrine, ethics, ritual, religious
experience and social interaction. This
unit in Adult Education will encompass
many of the highlights of the Religion:
Analysis course that Mr. Bauer developed
and instructed for the Religious Studies Department at Florida International
University.
Vacation Bible School is coming, and your
children will LOVE attending and traveling to THAILAND, as we experience this
culture through the daily Bible lessons,
food, games, and crafts, while making
new friends!
2015 VBS Directors are Mrs. Toni and
Mr. John McCormick (mccormicksells@
gmail.com), Mrs. Tara Henley ([email protected]), Mrs. Tracy Hamm
([email protected]) and Mother
Liza Ragsdale (motherliza@saintmarks.
com). Music will be lead by the fabulous
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church Dorsett
Sisters! Assistant Leaders include: Ms.
Leighann Delvaille, Mrs. Sandy Hoyle,
Ms. Joan Billings, Mr. James Jana, and
Mr. Rick Bauer. Junior Counselors are
Miss Meghan McCormick, 8th grader at
St. Mark’s Episcopal School, and Patrick
Carroll, St. Mark’s alum, in addition to
current St. Mark’s students and graduates.
A registration form is available online,
along with hard copies in the Church and
School offices. Please contact our fabulous directors to volunteer and/or register.
Reservations are available for up to 60
children.
ST. MARK’S BOOK CLUB
April 23, 2015
Our Book Club will be
discussing Atonement by Ian
McEwan. We will gather at
the home of Dianne Garvin,
PhD., from 11:30 a.m. –
1:00 p.m. Please RSVP to
Dr. Garvin at: 954-258-1834 or 954-5613046. The 2014-15 schedule and book
list can be found in the June-July 2014
Evangelist issues, on our website at www.
saintmarksepiscopalchurch.com, or by
calling Mother Liza at 954-563-5155 for
additional information.
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church
Vacation Bible School
June 8 – 11, 2015
Ages 4–10
Welcome to Thailand Trek, the Cross Culture VBS,
where children discover how God loves the world!
9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
drop-off as early as 8:30 a.m.
$5000 per child
Before and Extended Care available for an additional fee.
For more information, contact Mrs. Dafney Guillet
[email protected] or (954) 334-0101
For an overview…check this out!
http://www.group.com/vbs/thailand-trek
1750 East Oakland Park Blvd.
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33334
954-563-5155
SPRING YARD SALE
BISHOP COADJUTOR
ELECT’S GIFTS
SUNDAY
MAY 3
Thank you to everyone who helped make
the Spring Yard Sale FUN and SUCCESSFUL for our St. Mark’s Church and
School Community! We had lots of new
members help along with veteran Yard
Sale Champions! LuAnne Pond’s baked
goods raised funds for our TRUE FUND
outreach ministry. GOD BLESS YOU!
The Rt. Reverend Leo Frade, our Dioscean Bishop has designated the first
Sunday in May as the dioscean-wide Cursillo Sunday. The Cursillo Movement was
founded in the early 1950’s by the Roman
Catholic Church in Spain.
The Episcopal Church, for a little over
50 years, has given Christians an opportunity to attend a three-day meeting
that focuses on ‘what is fundamental to
being a Christian.’ Cursillo uses a group
method of sharing and prayer during the
three days. Afterward, those attending
join a Reunion Group that meets weekly
for prayer.
The Cursillo Method can help a person
to have a closer relationship with Christ,
as they discover that the laity and clergy
have a vital ministry. Ultreyas are held
around the diocese to gather together
for worship, interaction and sharing on a
larger scale.
Mrs. Pam Clark is the Cursillo representative for St. Mark’s. She and others
who are involved with Cursillo will speak
about this ministry on May 3, 2015, at all
three services. They will also be available
for questions during the day.
ST. MARK’S
SUMMER PROGRAMS
Make Your Mark in Life!
Weekly Sessions June1–July 31 @ PK2-Grade 8
Traditional Day Camp, Specialty Camps and Combo Camps with Coral Ridge Country Club
Flexible Days and Weeks
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Certified Teachers
Science Exploration
EPISCOPAL SCHOOL
Fort Lauderdale
Est. 1959
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MAC Labs
Water Activities
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Arts and Crafts
Field Trips
[email protected] @ www.saintmarks.com
954-563-4508
1750 E. Oakland Park Blvd., Ft Lauderdale, FL 33334
Over the next ten months, the Diocese
of Southeast Florida will be filled with
much celebration and transition as we
bid farewell to Leo Frade, our Diocesan
Bishop, and welcome Peter Eaton as our
Bishop Coadjutor-elect. As such, it is
customary for the good people of our
diocese to present gifts of appreciation in
recognition of the office bestowed upon
them as they respectively depart from us
and join us.
At this time, we are launching an appeal for lay members throughout the
diocese to make a contribution toward
our Bishop Coadjutor-elect’s gifts. The
Diocese will present three symbols of office to Peter at the time of his ordination
and consecration as Bishop Coadjutor of
the Diocese of Southeast Florida, which is
expected to take place on Saturday, May 9
at Trinity Cathedral. These three symbols
include Peter’s official ring, a pectoral
cross, and a set of white vestments. We
ask your support to help purchase the
cross and white vestments. With the
approval of the Transition and Standing
Committees, Peter has commissioned
a jeweler with whom he has worked in
the past to create a 14k gold ring with
an amethyst stone on which the diocesan seal will be engraved. The ring is to
be a gift from our diocesan clergy. The
jeweler also will create a gold pectoral
cross, which will depict elements from
our Cathedral. The white vestments have
been ordered. Any incremental funds
over the cost of the gifts will be donated
to diocesan charities.
Donate online today: http://www2.diosef.
org/www2/ring2.php to make your contribution! If you prefer to write a check,
make your check payable to the Diocese
of Southeast Florida and annotate “Gift
for Bishop-Coadjutor” in the memo line
and mail your check to the Diocese at 525
NE 15th Street, Miami, FL 33132. Please
note that recognition of your gift will be
based on the ‘name field’ used to complete the credit card donation online form
or by the name preprinted on your check.
We look forward to welcoming Peter into
our diocesan family.
On behalf of the Transition Committee,
Pat Jordan and the Rev. Mimi Howard
Co-chairs
from PALM CROSSES to PALM SUNDAY!
ST. MARK’S HONDURAS
GLOBAL EXCHANGE
STUDENTS
St. Mark’s Episcopal School, recently,
had the honor of sharing our church
and school community with students
from Honduras. Thank you to all of our
school families who generously supported these students, with their gifts,
to make this event a great success!
DAUGHTERS OF THE KING (DOK)
INSTALLATION SERVICE
You are invited to pray for the ladies in our Parish who
have been meeting to study and pray in preparation for taking their LIFE VOWS, on
Sunday, May 10, 2015. St. Mark’s Church has an established Lay Order within DOK that
has been reactivated by the ladies who have answered God’s call to take this vow.
Since January, Mother Liza Ragsdale has been leading these ladies through their study
and prayer, with the support of Father Bob Trache, Mrs. Sandy Hoyle, President of St.
Mark’s Daughters of the King and Mrs. Ruth Foss, President of DOK for the Diocese of
SE Florida. Mrs. Yvonne McKibben and Mrs. Ginny Hammell are DOK members who
have also participated in the DOK classes.
The DOK take life vows to spend their lives focused on service, evangelism, and prayer.
The DOK focus their daily prayers for all of the clergy at St. Mark’s to help support
them spiritually and physically as they care for St. Mark’s Church and School, while also
serving God. They will also pray for the hopes, joys, needs and concerns of all parishioners.
After the DOK Installation, a DOK prayer box will be added inside our Church that
will be locked, to ensure confidentiality for each prayer request placed inside the box.
The DOK PRAYER BOX prayer request will be gathered weekly by Mother Liza or a
DOK member, who will then share the confidential prayer requests within the Order,
for intentional prayer.
Daughters of the King Candidates are: Mrs. Pia Delvaille, Mrs. Holly Hoyle-McAneny,
Mrs. Billie Hairston, Mrs. Donna McGinty, Mrs. Carol-Lee Ortman, Lea Tilbury, and
Mrs. Jan Spaulding. Please keep these soon to be DOK members in your prayers as they
prepare to take their Life Vows.
THE T.R.U.E. Fund –
WHAT IS IT?
Most Episcopal churches, including our
own St. Mark’s, have a social service
program that assists families or individuals in crisis known as the T.R.U.E.
Fund, an acronym for Toward (the)
Relief (of) Unusual Emergencies. Applicants are referred by social service
agencies in our community to help
defray urgent financial needs, such as
rent, utility bills, medical expenses,
etc. The intent is to help people return
to self-sufficiency, and it is done in
the name of Jesus Christ. The Fund is
administered under the direction of
our Rector, the Vestry and a specific
committee responsible for its disperment. Kelly Harris is the “point person”
for our parish. Qualifying St. Mark’s
parishioners, as well as the community
at large, are eligible for receiving this
“once-only grant”. The third Sunday of
every month is known as T.R.U.E. Fund
Sunday when a special monetary collection is taken at St. Mark’s for maintaining that fund.