Featured Events and Announcements

Sundays and Beyond with the Weekly Update from the Canon Missioner

Creation Jamboree

Announcing the third annual retreat sponsored by the Bishop’s Committee for the Environment (BCE) and the Olympia Diocese of the Episcopal Church. We are again hosting an invigorating yet relaxing retreat for those within the diocese who love Creation and are involved with greening work. Bishop Greg Rickel will be joining us as we share stories about our caring-for-creation and greening works. We’ll commune with nature and each other as we work toward healing from recent tragedies regarding creation, in the Gulf and the world.

Lunch will be provided, including vegan options. Suggested donation of $10, as you are able. Space is limited, so please register as soon as possible.

To register: Contact Marilyn Hall at ak-mj@msn.com or 425.908.7558.

Let's All Read the Summer Sustainability Reading List

Interested in learning more about environmental sustainability and how we all can live more sustainably? Please join us in some summer reading to explore these timely issues.

We are planning to read three books this summer on underlying issues of sustainability and a hopeful vision for the future. We plan to gather three times to share and reflect. See attached flyer for booklist and specific dates.

The books will be available at the Cathedral Shop. Please talk to George at the Shop, 206.323.1040 or gtreusch@saintmarks.org.

To get on the email list for the Sustainability Reading Group contact: Ruth Mulligan, 206.706.9620, rmulligan@earthministry.org, or Judy Andrews, 206.915.2494, judy@judithandrewslaw.com.

Clean Greens- Community Supported Agriculture

Saint Mark's and New Hope Bapist Church Clean Greens Farm bring you fresh organic produce throughout the summer and fall.

Sign up for one or two 10-week sessions at www.cleangreensfarm.com. Click on the link for "CSA Program" for FAQs and registration information. Saint Mark's is a delivery point! For more information about the Clean Greens program at Saint Mark's, contact Marge at andermar@comcast.net.

Farm work party! Saturday, June 19. Help is needed with planting/weeding or just come out and visit the farm and see where the CSA baskets come from! Stay for a couple of hours or all day. Contact Liz Shea at lizeshea@gmail.com or 206.782.1608 to find out more information on the time, location, carpooling, etc. Should be fun!

WEAVERS: Women’s Experience and Voice Expressed in Ritual and Story

WEAVERS is a program rooted in the Christian tradition that creates community ritual to give voice to women’s experience as well as to honor and affirm the sacredness of women’s truth. Our purpose is to bring women together on four Saturday mornings throughout the year beginning in 2010 to create the time and space to share both rituals and our stories of lives of faith lived out against a backdrop of a culture which includes both challenges and opportunity.

Please join the women of Saint Mark’s for a morning of ritual and storytelling. Click here for more information or contact Nikki Nordstrom at nikkinordstrom@verizon.net or 425.481.4392 or the Rev. Marilyn Cornwell at mcornwell@saintmarks.org or 206.323.0300, ext. 222.

Stewardship Sunday - A Celebration of Time, Talent and Treasure

Each service that morning will recess to Bloedel for the festive gathering of refreshments and displays.

All active Saint Mark's ministry groups are welcome to display. Ministry leaders are receiving display reservation information and tables must be reserved by August 31. If you have not received information please email Joyce Ramee at mavijramee@aol.com (please include "Stew Sunday" in your subject!)

Travel to Nicaragua with the Rev. David Mesenbring

The trip will be designed to shed light on how Nicaraguans live and sustain thier communites amid challenges such as fair trade and social justice.

Learn more, including information about applying to join at http://saintmarksdelegations.wordpress.com/about/