LIVING LIFE TO THE FULL!
JOHN 10:10
St.Mark's Church, Talbot Village is a lively and exciting community - with lots going on for all ages and throughout the year. Keep up-to-date with all our latest church family news under this heading.
Keep scrolling down to see all the stories!
Memory Lane Afternoon Group
Marion Marks (Warden) leads our memory lane group for those who suffer from dementia. This group is a great encouragement to family members who care for somebody they love. Below is a picture of the most recent October 2021 meeting.
Emergency Afghanistan Appeal
Photo image from Canva
How to help people fleeing the Taliban in Afghanistan.
OUR RESPONSE
If you would like to contribute there are different ways we can respond as a church:
Prayer
World Vision has given specific needs that our church can pray for.
Pray for the children, their families and communities who live in fear every day.
Pray for World Vision’s staff who continue to put their lives on the line every day. Many of whom are Muslims and love working for World Vision, but are now in increasing danger by being associated with them.
Pray for an immediate ceasefire and the protection of all children.
Pray for generous supporters to enable World Vision to serve the most vulnerable children in their darkest hour.
Pray for families in Afghanistan to find hope and comfort in the love that only the Lord can bring. And may they see that love personified through the actions of World Vision as they live out John 15:12: ‘My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.’
From Hillsong Church, London
DONATE CLOTHES
Charity
CARE4CALAIS (
https://care4calais.org/)is appealing for clothes for Afghan refugees.
Donations of clothing (in good and clean condition) for men, women and children are welcomed along with any blankets or bedding.
To donate please take your items to care4calais Bournemouth drop off point - Immanuel URC Church, 120 Southbourne Road, Southbourne, Bournemouth, BH6 3QJ.
The
Salvation Army are also taking clothing donations and run numerous clothing banks locally and nationwide.
* PLEASE BE AWARE OF CULTURAL SENSITIVITIES (AND WHAT THEY HAVE BEEN THROUGH) WHEN DONATING CERTAIN ITEMS OF CLOTHING. GUIDANCE AS FOLLOWS:
1. Please no clothing with camouflage pattern and styling.
2. Please no super hero clothing for children.
3. No clothing with aeroplane prints.
4. No clothing with boat prints.
5. Please no short skirts for girls and women Afghani women and girls wear dresses below knee length.
6. Please be mindful if you are donating any Disney clothing of girl characters. Some of the female child characters are sexualised. An example being the Frozen girl character whose body image is one of a girl older than what is normal for a girl of her age.
DONATE FINANCIALLY
Two Christian charities - World Vision (https://www.worldvision.org.uk/) and Tearfund (https://www.tearfund.org/) - have emergency appeals through whom you can donate. Both Charities operate in Afghansitan and have operations on the ground.
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FASHION SHOW
FRIDAY 10TH SEPTEMBER 7pm(not 6pm) - 9pm
We had a fantastic evening with some wonderful models, including an appearance by Miss Winton herself!
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BRINGING THE COMMUNITY BACK TOGETHER WITH OUR FABULOUS
Photos used with parental permissions for use on this website
Making aliens!
Bouncing around on the inflatable obstacle course
Space invaders!!
Chillaxing and SUMO Wrestling!
Some of our amazing FUSION Youngsters (and their friends) came to help
and join in the fun.
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CHURCH FAMILY WEEKEND AWAY 2021- CHICHESTER HARBOUR
PHOTO GALLERY: PHOTOS USED WITH PARENTAL PERMISSION FOR THE WEBSITE
The photos speak for themselves of the glorious family weekend we were blessed with - fun, friendship, adventure and fellowship
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FUSION END OF TERM SUMMER HAWAIIAN PARTY
With water balloon fun, water slip slide (we all got very wet!), we wore lei's, we made our own grass skirts and ate lots and lots of pizza.
Photos used with parental permissions for use on this website.
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SUMMER FUN: TINY TOTS TODDLERS
SUMMER OUTING TO HENGISTBURY HEAD ON THE LAND TRAIN
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We held two Christingle Services attended by over 60 families. You can watch the Service on the Online Service page (click here). Here is a picture of some of the lights we used!
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SUNDAY MORNING FUN FOR ALL THE FAMILY: St.Mark's Children Online (SMC!)
Alex, our Children and Youth Minister, has produced some fun stuff for our younger members of St Mark's but they are for everyone!
SEASON TWO:
SEASON ONE:
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To celebrate 'Halloween', we celebrated that Jesus is the Light of the World. Over a dozen homes around the Parish were decorated with a light display and a trail map was given to different family groups to go around and visit them. A big thank you to Alex, our Children and Youth Minister, for her wonderfully creative idea and for organising the event.
A special thank you also to the children at St.Mark's School who took part in this event by making beautiful stained glass windows and pictures which were used to decorate the church link.
Here are some photos:
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A wonderful harvest festival 2020 - flowers and service - all the food went to St.Andrews Church Foodbank in Kinson.
Toddlers Restarted - with a difference
St Mark's Toddlers has restarted and has temporarily changed how it operates due to the present restrictions. 'Families' book in and then have fun doing outdoor activities in groups of 6 (under a gazebo if wet). This has included a scavenger hunt and outdoor games. Also the Toddler toys are used with the mandatory cleaning put in place.
Here are some photos (with parents permission)
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WEDDING BELLS FOR KELLY AND JOHN
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SUMMER 2020
There continue to be many restrictions in place due to the virus really limiting what we can and cannot do in the Youth, Children and Families Ministry - things change at the drop of a hat making it difficult to plan, presenting many challenges but also great opportunities which need to be celebrated. In particular we have had to continue to be creative with how we connect with our families and young people.
As lockdown measures eased over the summer we have been delighted to welcome back to church some of our young families and even had a picnic with them after the service on the main church lawn.
Due to Government restrictions we are only allowed 30 at each picnic gathering (whilst also sticking to family/ school bubble groups and maintaining social distancing) so we have organised 3 picnics and the first was held on Sunday 30th August with the sun shining, a family kite making competition, fish and butterfly wands to make and chalk drawing fun.
Here are some photos:
We are blessed to have some really beautiful young families as part of our church family - please be praying for them.
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SUMMER CHALLENGE
Over August the children were set a challenge to do a series of activities each week including: Joining in with the New Wine festival, which this year was online, buying a bag of jelly beans and using each colour to pray for something different, reading a new story from the Bible, taking a photo outside of church, finding the Vicarage and taking a photo there, taking food to the local foodbank, choosing a Bible verse and putting actions to it.
Here are some photos from those who got involved - they did BRILLIANTLY, well done:
(PHOTOS USED WITH PARENTAL PERMISSION)
Joining in with New Wine Kids Club Online Praying
Learning to pray with the different colours of Jelly Baby sweets
Photo taken outside Church Photo taken outside the Vicarage
Discovering a new Bible Story & taking some goodies to the local foodbank drop off point
Can you find the cheeky puppets?
Outside the church and at the Vicarage
All children involved were suitably rewarded for their fantastic efforts!
For fab photos of the Youth Weekend Away Click Here
Photos from our Summer Fete June 22nd 2019