Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C
October 6, 2019The Rev. Ian BurchSt. Mark’s Episcopal Church | Milwaukee, WI I’m not a big fan of Thanksgiving. It was never much of a holiday in my home growing up, and as an adult, either Travis or I...
Sermon for the Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church | Milwaukee, WI Pastor Rachel Young BinterSeptember 29, 2019 I am grateful to be asked to be your guest preacher today. And as a guest preacher, it would have been great to come and simply...
Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church | Milwaukee, WIThe Rev. Ian BurchSeptember 22, 2019 I spent the majority of my 20s single. Sometimes contentedly so and sometimes not contentedly so. I stopped referring to dates as “first dates,” and started calling...
Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C
The Rev. Ian BurchSt. Mark’s Episcopal Church | Milwaukee WISeptember 15, 2019 — Kick-Off Sunday If you were lucky enough to grow up in a neighborhood with lots of kids, you may have experienced the joys of after-dinner games....
The Pumpkins Are Coming! Literally!
Please join in the unloading of pumpkins Friday, October 4, at 1 p.m. Many hands make light work. If you can’t make it to unload the pumpkins, please sign up for a session, or two, or three to help...
Kick-Off Sunday Celebration!
Sunday we will celebrate the beginning of the program year with our special Kick-Off Sunday Celebration festivities. We invite all of you to join us for a picnic lunch on the green space on the north side of the...
Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C
The Rev. Ian BurchSt. Mark’s Episcopal Church | Milwaukee, WI September 1, 2019 For all who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted. When I was making small talk with the landlord of my...
Tenth Sunday after Pentecost, Year C
The Rev. Ian BurchSt. Mark’s Episcopal Church | Milwaukee, WIAugust 18, 2019 I come from generations of Baptists, and they don’t baptize babies as we do. Maybe this is why my siblings and I were baptized when we were...
Capital Campaign Update
Friends in Christ, Wonderful news about our continued discernment for St. Mark’s capital campaign: the Capital Campaign Task Force, under the leadership of Convener Judith Miller, has drafted and submitted a Request for Proposals for a building needs assessment...
Seventh Sunday after Pentecost, Year C
The Rev. Ian BurchSt. Mark’s Episcopal Church | Milwaukee, WIJuly 27, 2019 Some of you might know, but most of you probably don’t, that my childhood was in large part about music. I’m the child of two music teachers,...