Feb
2
2:00 PM14:00

Surviving Climate Change: Lessons from our Ancestors

Professor Nunn will bring us up to date on some of his research since his last Conversation at St Mark’s in 2019.

The prospect of a world transformed by climate change understandably makes us anxious. Many people believe that this is the first time that humans have ever had to cope with the effects of changing climate. That is quite wrong. Wherever in the world our ancestors lived, they experienced changes of climate thousands of years ago that lasted for generations and had profound and enduring effects on their ways of life.

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Blue Christmas Service
Dec
18
6:00 PM18:00

Blue Christmas Service

It is true that many people do not experience the Advent and Christmas season as a period of joy and light. For many - and perhaps more of us than would care to admit it – this season transports our greatest fears, losses, realities and shattered hopes into a time when most people are singing, socialising and enjoying life to the fullest. We may feel even more lost, more abandoned, more lonely and more afraid in this season of light and love. We offer this Blue Christmas service so that together we can name these fears and realities, bring them to the light and allow them to be met by the grace and truth and transforming touch of Immanuel, God with us. Who knows, we may realise the fullest hopes of the season, not through our celebrations and colourful decorations, but by casting our gaze through the darkness to see the approaching light, even if from a great distance.[1]


[1] Adapted from The Introduction to Blue Christmas. Todd Outcalt. Nashville, Upper Room Books, 2018.

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Palm Sunday Evensong
Mar
24
5:00 PM17:00

Palm Sunday Evensong

Songs of Praise Evensong. Please come and join the singing! Singers are gathering from parishes in our deanery of the Sunshine Coast to provide music and singing for a ‘different’ Sung Evensong on Palm Sunday, 24 March at 5 pm. We hope you will come and enjoy the gathering and refreshments afterwards. Monetary donations welcome.

Please let us know if you can come, to help us with our catering!

A sign up sheet is ready for you at the Church

entrance.

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At St Mark’s we meet to worship on custodial land of the oldest living civilisation in the world. We pay our respects to Kabi Kabi people and their Elders, past, present and emerging, for they hold the hopes, dreams, traditions and cultures of Aboriginal Australia. We acknowledge and respect their spiritual connection to country and their stewardship of the land that now sustains us all.