Interim Pastor Bob Hale installed members of the 2017 council on January 1st.
Who doesn't like to find a happy note in their mailbox at church?
Rehearsal with the choir of All Saints Episcopal Church (Father Donavan Cain, Rector and Michael Mastronicola, Director of Music). Our service of Lenten Devotions included K. Lee Scott's cantata "The Suffering Servant."
Our service of Lenten Devotions included a liturgy titled "For the Healing of the Nations" Worshipers were able to place candles on a map of the world as a sign of prayers for countries in conflict, places experiencing natural disasters, and places where the church is persecuted. The youth of St. Mark's made the map.
The Festival Choir with Interim Pastor Patrick Bell on Easter Sunday.
The Palm Beach Atlantic University Concert Choir (Dr. Geoffrey Holland, Director) performed an excellent concert on May 11th.
The St. Mark's Ringers were invited to perform a concert with the handbell choirs of Riverside Park United Methodist Church on May 21st.
Members of the Jacksonville Chapter of the American Guild of Organists spent two years meeting at St. Mark's to plan for hosting a regional convention of the AGO in Jacksonville and St. Augustine. St. Mark's was the site of workshops and a reading session led by Donald McCullough, a member of our AGO chapter and Director of the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra Chorus.
We had another excellent season of concerts by the San Marco Chamber Music Society! The photo is from their Facebook page.
Two outstanding local organists concertized on our 36-rank Zimmer/R.A. Colby pipe organ in the past year. They were Dr. Peter DeWitt (left) and Dr. Laura Ellis (right).
Interim Pastor Bob Hale serves communion during our annual Blessing of the Animals service.
We called a new Pastor! Pastor Daniel Locke preached his first sermon at St. Mark's on Reformation Sunday! Pastor Locke is a recent graduate of Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary. He will be installed as our Pastor on January 14, 2018. All are welcome!
The Festival Choir and our new Pastor on Reformation Sunday.
Orchestra students from Douglas Anderson School of the Arts performed their third concert at St. Mark's this year. They came for rehearsal, had dinner (above) then performed a concert of diverse musical styles by a variety of composers.
Detail from the cardboard box that one of our youth slept in during the Cardboard City event to benefit Family Promise of Jacksonville. I'm not sure who painted this, but I thought it was beautiful.
Pastor Daniel Locke and Cantor Tony Cruz after their first Christmas Eve service together. I hope there are many more to come!
Happy new year!
Happy new year!
4 comments:
Thank you for sharing. It was a great year at St. Mark’s.
Excellent review of 2017. A great year and more to come. Our music program is the heartbeat of our worship.
Thank you, Larry!
It was indeed a great year at St. Mark's with a lot to look forward to in the future!
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