This Week

We need you!  Volunteers are needed for some great projects coming up over the next couple of months. What is God calling you to do?  No, you are not too old. No, you are not too young. There is something for everyone to do no matter what your skills are. God calls each of us to do his work. Here are some opportunities:

Beautify Birdsboro – Saturday, April 27th 10-2. Help clean up the property and the parsonage. Prepare lunch for about 85 volunteers of Beautify Birdsboro.

Saturday May 4th – Youth Service Day. Our youth will be joining the youth of Schwarzwald and Reformation to clean up the property of a couple who are struggling. Light outdoor yard work. Lunch will be provided. We need some adults to help guide the youth in their work.

VBS: June 16-20 – We are excited about this year’s program. As usual, we will have an evening VBS starting with dinner and then the VBS program. All kinds of volunteers are needed from registration to cooks to activity directors. Talk to Christen Thompson.

Mission Trip Birdsboro and Beyond – July 17 – 20. Applications are now open for both home owners and for volunteers. Please see Sally Sassaman if you need information or help registering. Volunteers, please register now so we know how many volunteers we have from St. Mark’s. Register at www.missiontripbirdsboro.org  

Grass Mowers needed – could you spend a couple hours mowing the grass around the church property? The Myers family will be mowing around the buildings (Thank you Myers Family) but we need a couple of folks to mow around the parsonage and around the garden and tree grove. Free freeze pops will be provided.

Pastor Jim

[Jesus said:] 1“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinegrower. 2He removes every branch in me that bears no fruit. Every branch that bears fruit he prunes to make it bear more fruit. 3You have already been cleansed by the word that I have spoken to you. 4Abide in me as I abide in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me. 5I am the vine, you are the branches. Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing. 6Whoever does not abide in me is thrown away like a branch and withers; such branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. 7If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask for whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. 8My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples.”