This Sunday, October 12, is our Harvest Thanksgiving service.

As usual, we try to decorate our church to reflect the season and the occasion with fresh vegetables, fruit, potted flowers (that donors can take home after the service), corn stalks, or anything else that provides colour and represents the spirit of thanksgiving.

If you have not already done so, parishioners are asked to bring their decoration contributions to the church today Friday, October 10.  Please stop in to see Melody and she will usher you into the church with your contributions.

We need a few volunteers to help ‘decorate’ and distribute our contributions around the church.  Church will opened for decorating  at 10 am Saturday and the job will be completed before noon.  Please help if you can.

All the food donated for decorations will end up at the food bank.

If you have any questions, please contact Ted Davie.

St. Mark’s annual scavenger hunt/car rally will be held on SATURDAY, 18 October 2025.  Lunch will be served at 12 noon at St. Mark’s Church Hall and then staggered departures starting at 1PM. All types of cars are eligible, especially classic cars!! 

This rally is not designed for speed but for a fun, social time with friends and family, enjoying the route and the beautiful autumn scenery around us.

Proceeds go to St. Mark’s Church Tower Restoration Fund. Thank you very much for participating in our community events.

The annual meeting  of the Frontenac Region Anglican Church Women (ACW) will be held at St. Mark's Barriefield on Wednesday, October 15.  Registration will start at 9:00 am.  Coffee, tea and snacks will be available.  Holy Eucharist will be celebrated at 10:00 am by Bishop William Cliff.  The guest speaker will be Travis Blackmore, the founder and CEO of Lionhearts Inc.

St. Mark's Bookclub will be meeting at the home of Alan Rumsey on Monday, November 17 at 2 pm, to discuss "The Book of Love"

In this book, bestselling author Andrew M. Greeley and his sister Doctor Mary G. Durkin present an inspirational volume celebrating the greatest of all virtues: love.

Love emerged in humankind not as a result of our being human, but as the supreme gift from one who loved us before we were even created: God. As a result of this one common bond that unites all races and creeds, the first family emerged, which lead to the creation of communities, civilizations, and all of the accomplishments therein--for nothing is impossible when love is involved.

Through a grand treasury of essays, poems, and stories, Andrew M. Greeley and Doctor Mary G. Durkin portray the limitlessness of the human spirit's capacity to care for one another as a result of the greatest virtue ever bestowed upon members of all nations and faiths: love.