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Pastors
Rev. Dr. Mark Hagen
Rev. Scott Stolberg
Rev. Donald E. Lavelle
SUNDAY MORNING SCHEDULE
8:00 A.M. Worship service in the Nave
9:30 A.M. Worship service in the Nave
11:00 A.M. Worship in Fellowship Hall
Staff Email Addresses
Pastor Mark Hagen
PrHagen@stmarklc.com
Pastor Scott Stolberg
PrStolberg@stmarklc.com
Pastor Don Lavelle
Donald.Lavelle@comcast.net
Melinda Alekna
melinda@stmarklc.com
Dave Blunt
dave@stmarklc.com
Jill Davenport
jill@stmarklc.com
Margaret Dean
margaret@philandmargaret.com
Karen Kammer
karen@stmarklc.com
Kristen Reick
Kreick16@hotmail.com
Jim Tooley
jtht1950@comcast.net
Mary Buzzard
Summerintern@stmarklc.com
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Youth News
Nerf Night Friday, July 26,
6:00 - 9:00 P.M.
Middle/High School Youth are invited for this fun night with Youth Connect Churches.
We will meet at St. Mark at 5:30 P.M. and carpool to GPS Church. Permission slip will be in Fellowship Hall this Sunday.
You must be signed up this Sunday and have your slip filled out to go.
Hot dogs, chips and soda will be provided. Please bring a pair of goggles.
Questions? See Melinda Alekna or e-mail her at melinda@stmarklc.com
Youth Group Meets...
on Sunday/Wednesday evenings from 6:30-8:00 P.M.
Check out the YOUth bulletin board for more information and to follow the Ice Cream Tour!
If you haven’t joined us yet…it has been a yummy summer with tasty ice cream and flavorful discussion.
Three more weeks of the tour, check it out!
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6-12th Grade
Save The Date!!
"Tenth Avenue North"
in concert
Priority seating for youth in grades 6-12.
Watch for more details.
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Thank you!
Thanks to those who helped at the Habitat for Humanity Work Days this summer: Those include - John Hargrove, Laura Papuga, John Buzzard, Jimmy Ivacic, Don Ivacic, Jamie and Bruce Horton.
St. Mark Outreach Commitee
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Coming July 28...
'In The Bag Sunday'
This will be our yearly back to school drive with an emphasis on helping the homeless population. Start their year with much needed supplies and uniforms. Start watching for those back to school sales! Pencils, crayons, scissors, glue, fat & skinny markers, spiral notebooks, folders and backpacks. Hint: the Salvation Army store has great deals on school uniform clothing.
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Mark these dates on your calendar!
Rally Day will be held on September 8. The first day of Sunday school will be September 15 at 9:30 A.M.
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Confirmation News!
A reminder from Pastor Scott: To those who will be confirmed Oct. 27, please remember to get your bible verse in by July 31 and to set up your appointment with Pr. Scott to discuss your Parent-Youth Interchange series. If you have any questions, please contact Pr. Scott. Visit the website to help with finding your bible verse.
www.stmarklc.com.
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From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded, and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked. - Luke 12:48
We just returned from an exciting, fun, and memorable youth trip. Eighteen of us went on a “Mystery Mission Trip.” We traveled in vans to Minneapolis, Minnesota to do service work. Our goal for the youth was to have a servant experience…that would help them to think outside of themselves…to think of other’s.
We stayed in the heart of mid-town Minneapolis. We were housed in the Russ Ewald Center/Urban Immersion. Each evening (after our servant event) we had learning experience’s revolving around poverty and privilege. The youth learned about what it means to be “Indignant” and how we can become “Advocates,” for change.
The youth finished their learning time by writing a letter to elected officials. Our service work focused on education and justice. We volunteered at seven servant sites as listed below…
Arc Greater Twin Cities- processed donations that benefit people with disabilities.
Bridging, Inc.-Our youth moved mattresses and furniture at the largest furniture bank in North America.
Center Café at The Center for Changing Lives-Messiah Lutheran Church with Lutheran Social Services provides meals, kitchen, food pantry, meeting rooms, and learning space. The center is connecting people in faith and service.
Ebenezer- Our youth enjoyed visiting and playing bingo with older residents.
Kaleidoscope Place-provides a creative, educational, and nurturing environment for children to learn and grow in character and community. Our youth helped with childcare in the classroom.
Second Harvest Heartland- Our youth helped sort and prepare packages of food for distribution. This is the Midwest’s largest hunger relief organization.
Sojourner Project-provides safe shelter for women and children who have experienced domestic abuse. Our youth helped to sort, and organized a very large clothes closet and storage room with 350 handmade blankets for the residents.
Isaiah 58:9-12 If you get rid of unfair practices, quit blaming victims, quit gossiping about other people’s sins, If you are generous with the hungry and start giving yourselves to the down-and-out, Your lives will begin to glow in the darkness, your shadowed lives will be bathed in sunlight. I will always show you where to go. I’ll give you a full life in the emptiest of places-firm muscles, strong bones. You’ll be like a well-watered garden, a gurgling spring that never runs dry. You’ll use the old rubble of past lives to build anew, rebuild the foundations from out of your past. You’ll be known as those who can fix anything, restore old ruins, rebuild and renovate, make the community livable again.
Want to know more about our trip? Ask a youth on Sunday’s this summer (wearing their bright green mission shirt) and they will be happy to tell you about their trip.
“Give me your eyes for just one second, give me your eyes so I can see, everything that I keep missing, give me your love for humanity.”
Blessings,
Melinda Alekna
Youth Ministry Coordinator
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Remember in Your Prayers:
When you submit names for the payer list, please let us know the length of time you would like the individual to be listed.
Our St. Mark Members: Catherine Rydberg, Keith Haggestad, Pat Jacobsen.
Our condolences to: Deb Lindley and family upon the death of her mother, Geraldine Brown.
Family and friends of St. Mark members: Richard Fry, Roger Steege, Mae Hullinger, John Wittman, Jeff Ahlstrom, Mary Wilson, Ray Bare, Liesel Landgraf, Margaret Johnsen, Marena Peterson.
Those serving in the military and their families: Dean Barron, David Albaugh, Brandon Ballenger, John Bullington, Kevin Cronin, Timothy Folkers, Kellen Hietpas, Ty Hosler, Philip Light, Sean Sullivan, Patrick Sullivan, Chad Swenson, Dan Waterton, Zach Hayes.
Pastor Mark and Naomi Hagen during this time of sabbatical.
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Praise Band:
The Praise Band will be playing at Kiwanis Brat days on Friday, July 19 from 4:00 - 4:45 P.M. at Schnucks (Logli's) on E. State Street. Come out and support our Praise Band and enjoy a brat!
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Altar Flowers:
Thank you to those who have signed up for altar flowers. Below are the dates that are still available for you to remember a loved one or in honor of someone special with flowers for our altar. The open dates are: 7/28, Oct. 6, 13, 27, Nov. 3, 17, and Dec. 8, 15, 29.
The arrangements cost $30 and is a beautiful way to honor that special someone.
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 (Click on the logo to visit Katie's Cup)
Tuesday, July 23, 7 pm
‘Oh, the People We Meet, the Lessons We Learn! - A continuing Katie’s Cup Series focusing on people we meet across the globe: Europe and the Middle East’
Thursday, July 25, 11:45 - 1:15 pm
‘Update on the Impact of Affordable Health Care in the Rockford Area’
Bunco - Tuesday, July 30th at 6:00 p.m.
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RALM Happenings:
Website – Please check out the RALM website: www.RockfordAreaLutheranMinistries.com for more events and activities happening in the Rockford area churches!
Six Flags - Coasters for a Cause - October 5 & 6
Tickets are only $31 and a portion of each ticket is returned to RALM. To purchase tickets, go to www.sixflags.com/greatamerica promo code LUTHERAN.
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Donate your used Instrument:
We're building marching bands in the Rockford Public Schools! If you have a musical instrument you would like to donate, please drop off your instrument at any RPS school, or contact LuAnn Widergren, Fine Arts Director at widergl@rps205.com. We will get it to a school in need. We have donation forms available. Sorry, no pianos, organs,
or guitars needed at this time. Thank you for supporting our music programs!
Click here for the donation form.
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ELCA Celebrating 25 Years!
God's Work Our Hands Sunday:
 (click the logo to visit the ELCA website)ELCA 25th Anniversary Celebration
The first project with God's Work Our Hands Sunday is each congregation is asked to collect an item for Carpenter's Place during the month of August. The goal is to fill church vans and trailers to deliver a fleet of ELCA vans full of supplies. St. Mark is collecting Foam Cups.
The second part of God's Work, Our Hands Sunday is participating in service projects in the community. On September 8, the ELCA will celebrate “God’s Work. Our hands.” Sunday an opportunity for service work and making a difference, using our hands to do God’s work of restoring and reconciling communities in Jesus Christ’s name. Imagine 4 million people from nearly 10,000 congregation out in their communities serving meals, cleaning up neighborhoods, visiting with the homebound, collecting supplies for those experiencing homelessness, poverty or conflict. There will be service opportunities on both
September 7 & 8th.
To prepare for this celebration and unite with other Lutherans of the ELCA, we are taking orders for t-shirts!
Please check them out in Fellowship Hall and place your order. We will take orders July 21, and 28th. The price of the t-shirts are $7.00. If you are unable to come to church on these Sundays, please email Melinda@stmarklc.com with your order.
There will be special opportunities to wear your t-shirts 8/14, 8/18, 9/8, and 10/6.
Save the date of October 6, for a special worship service(at Trinity Lutheran) to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the ELCA.
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