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'17 A year of milestones In 2017, we launched two key new ministries — Emmanuel House and McCleery School mentoring — while we continued to support and expand our other programs and ministries that share Christ’s love in the community and the world. At the same time, we moved forward with two other initiatives that by the end of the year would change our life together. First, by the end of the first full year of our capital campaign, we finally saw our building debt reduced to less than $2 million — a milestone on our financial journey. And as a result of the second and more important initiative, we are awaiting the arrival of Pastor Patrick Fish, our new associate pastor. What a year 2017 was! Our three-year capital campaign, Sharing Our Faith — Securing Our Future, begins. By mid- January, we have already contributed $130,400. The Congregational Council and Pastor Patricia Geiseman endorse the pastor presented by the Call Committee and recommend him to the congregation. Building debt is reduced to less than $2 million as the first full year of the capital campaign brings in over $225,000. January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December At the Annual Meeting, we elect a Call Committee. The Call Committee presents a pastoral candidate to the Council with enthusiastic approval for the position of Associate Pastor at St. Mark’s. On Commitment weekend, we support the vision for our ministry, which includes calling a second full-time pastor, by increasing our financial commitments. We vote to call Pastor Patrick Fish.
Communicate effectively in ways that inform and engage members of the congregation and the surrounding community in faith formation and in the life and ministry of the church. What we accomplished in 2017 Our Sanctuary video system was installed, and we used it for Vacation Bible School, the October congregational meetings, our celebration of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, Wednesday night FDL monthly worship services, the December Congregational meeting and several funerals. We established a St Mark's members Facebook group where we share photos, announcements, volunteer requests, and last minute updates. We also had daily posts of a picture and a word related to Advent as part of a Picture Advent project. Members responded with thoughts and comments as well as their own pictures representing the word of the day. We purchased new hymnals: Evangelical Lutheran Worship (ELW) hymnals are in each pew, many of them dedicated to individuals or events. A new St. Mark’s web site went live in April. Ideas and plans for 2018 Purchase and use a worship software program that could be used for special worship services or the contemporary worship (10:30 Sunday) service. Continue to update and refresh the website. Webcast our worship service Priority 13 1 Number of baptisms at St. Mark’s in 2017 8,702 Number of miles we walked to reach Jerusalem (from Aurora) 256 Number of blood pressure screenings in 2017 140 Number of children and youth in our programs 228 Number of light bulbs replaced in the sanctuary 39 Number of St. Mark’s volunteers at Feed the Need who helped pack over one million meals for Feed My Starving Children.
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