Category: Events

The Ninth Annual Women’s Retreat will be the weekend of April 15th-17th at a beautiful home on the shore of Devil’s Lake, just east of Lincoln City. Our theme for the weekend will be “Living Grace-fully”, where we will explore how to receive God’s gift of grace at each stage of life to live each day…

Mid-Week Worship at 12:05 noon each Wednesday with a light lunch following! Advent Organ Concert on Friday, December 18 at 7:00pm Christmas Eve Service on Thursday, December 24 5:30 pm Family Service 10:00 pm Candlelight, Carols & Communion Christmas Day Service at 10:00 am with Communion Sunday, December 27th – 10:00 am (one service only / No Sunday…

Faith Dialogues at Saint Mark (formerly the Visiting Theologian Program) is hosting Dr. Susan Pitchford October 16th to 18th. She is a sociologist from the University of Washington and has a particular interest in St. Francis and St. Clare. She will be speaking from a sociological perspective about their influence for our lives in 2015. On…

Saint Mark Lutheran Church in downtown Salem will host a spring tour visit by the Pacific Lutheran University Chorale from Tacoma on Friday, April 17. The performance, titled “Dances to Life,” will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the church, 790 Marion St. NE. Admission is free, but offerings will be accepted. Interim conductor Lauren Whitham,…

Make your reservations now to attend our annual Women’s Retreat to be held April 17-19, 2015 in Lincoln City.  You could be one of 20 women to gather for a weekend of fun, good food, and reflection around the topic of “Wise Women.” Deaconess Deb Mantey will facilitate our Friday evening through Sunday noon retreat. Registration…

After the past two years of Connect 7 and Dinner for 7, we’re back with another round of Connect 7. If you’d like to host, please sign up for a hosting slot in the west narthex and choose an activity you’d like to plan. For hosts, the activity you plan might be dinner or you could plan a…

After the 9:30 service on Pentecost, plan to stick around for the fun! We will have our own : see renovations to the Library, find out where the Youth Room and Child Development Center classrooms are, check out where LWR quilt and Backpack Buddies ministries happen! Meanwhile, there will be a supervised play group for the children, a Ping…

During Lent Saint Mark will worship on Wednesdays (March 12th, 19th, 26th, April 2nd, 9th) with Worship at 12:05pm (Service of the Word). An evening service will start at 6:30 p.m. (Holden Evening Prayer). The Labyrinth will be available from 9:00 am to 6:30 pm on Wednesdays during Lent for meditation.

The seventh annual St. Mark Women’s Retreat will be held April 4-6 in Lincoln City.  Our theme. “This, Too, is Gift” is inspired by a short poem by Mary Oliver – “Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.”   We will explore the Lenten…

Saint Mark Lutheran’s longtime organist, Tim Bibelheimer, will perform a free Valentine’s concert titled “The Love of God” at 7 p.m. Friday, February 14, 2014, in the church, 790 Marion St. NE in downtown Salem. It will feature traditional and contemporary gospel music in the style of a mighty Wurlitzer theater organ as well as…