St. Mark's Anglican Church
155 Memorial Drive N3R 5S5 Brantford, ON, Canada

Zoomin’ (virtual) coffee hour at St Mark’s Brantford Sunday, January 31 at 11. Please check the email update for this week for the dial info. Bring a coffee, Tea and cookies!!! Can’t wait to see you!!!

Our readings for this week can be found at https://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=62

https://youtu.be/sWShz4NpVds

Thank you to St. James in Paris for this hilarious post!! Let's hope it doesn't actually come to this....again this year!

Our on-line at home Messy Church program is now available! Follow the link to check out November's theme of 'Bringing People Together in Peace and Joy'. http://stmarks.on.ca/messy-church-details/

Poinsettia Sales Have Begun here at St.Mark's! This year we will be selling 4.5" plants (red & white), 6" and 8" plants (red, white & jinglebell colours). Prices are $10, $15 and $20 and all money goes towards the St. Mark's Youth Group. Orders can be placed on Sundays or see Christine in the office. Please Note : due to Covid 19, purchased plants MUST be taken home & not left at the church this year.

Our next Drive Thru Food Drive to help support the Brantford Food Bank is taking place on Saturday November 21st from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. We will also be supporting the Northland Gardens Holiday Gift Bag program which provides each family in the complex with a gift bag for the holidays. We are looking for the following items for the Holiday Gift Bag program ;... Hot Chocolate, Microwave Popcorn, Ginger Bread House or Cookie Kits, Stove Top Stuffing, Canned Vegetables, Canned Pie Filling, Colouring Books & Crayons/Markers, Assorted Candy or Chocolates, Assorted Personal Hygiene Products, Hats & Mitts & $10.00 gift cards from either PC, SHOPPERS, WALMART (Only Gift Cards will be accepted, No Cash Please)

Today we celebrated the Reign of Christ and said our final good-byes to our Rector Tim Dobbin. How lucky we are at St. Mark's to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

Join us here at St. Mark's on Saturday November 21st from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. not only for our food drive but also for our Drive By ~ Good Bye party for Rev. Tim who will be leaving St. Mark's on November 22nd. We welcome you to stop by with your signs, horns and balloons to say good-bye to Tim one last time before his departure.

Join us today from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. for our Brantford Food Bank drive thru Food Drive and special collection for the Northland Gardens Holiday Gift Bag program. We are also having a drive thru Good - Bye party for Tim today as Sunday November 22nd is his last day here at St. Mark's. For Northland Gardens we are looking for the following items for the Holiday Gift Bags ~ Hot Chocolate, Microwave Popcorn, Ginger Bread, House or Cookie Kits, Stove Top Stuffing, Canned Vegetables, Canned Pie Filling, Colouring Books & Crayons/Markers, Assorted Candy or Chocolates, Assorted Personal Hygiene, Products, Hats & Mitts & $10.00 gift cards from either PC, SHOPPERS, WALMART (Only Gift Cards will be accepted, No Cash Please). Thank you for all your help with this community collection!

Thank You!! Thank You!! Thank You to everyone who has knitted or crocheted hats, mitts, cowls and scarves. St. Leonard's is in the process of creating warmth packages to be distributed to the homeless and are very grateful for the donation from St Mark's. The children's items will be donated to Northland Gardens. We are blessed to have : 20 Adult Hats, 3 Children's Hats, 6 Pair of Mitts, 11 Scarves or Cowls, 12 Adult Hat, Mitt and Scarf Sets, 5 Children Hat, Mitt and Scarf Sets. Please don't stop, organizations can always use more. If you are in need of yarn, needles and patterns we still have lots. Please contact Debbie.

Fall arrived this morning at 9:31 a.m. Welcome to sweater and yoga pants weather!!

Join us this morning for our online Sunday worship service. https://www.youtube.com/watch

Happening Now!! Our Brantford Food Bank Food Drive and SPCA Collection until 12:00 p.m today!

Happy Thursday!! Who's excited to see what today brings!!

Sunday September 13th was our first service back after a long break away from seeing each other.

JC's point is pretty straight forward.

Prayer...it does a body (and mind and soul) good!

It's Season of Creation! Check out all the online learning opportunities and events happening around the world. https://seasonofcreation.org/events/