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“Rejoice always. Pray without ceasing. Give thanks in all circumstances.”
1 Thessalonians 5:16
The Trinity
This Fall the Adult Forum will focus on the Trinity—its history, its meaning, and why it matters.
The class has ended, but you can access all the materials here on the website.

The Trinity Podcast
Subscribe and listen to the Trinity Podcast—a limited series—where Fr Rick takes us on a journey to understand God as Trinity. We’ll go through the history and the development of the doctrine, and we’ll talk about why it matters.
Rooted deep in the heritage of the Church, and deeply accessible
Our way of worship and communal prayer taps into the long 2,000-year-old traditions of the Christian Church. And, yet there is also a simplicity and connection to our own time and place which helps it feel contemporary and fresh.
We sing the old familiar hymns, but we also enjoy the music of our own century. The sermons here spring right from the Scriptures, illuminating what happened in ages past, but also looking towards what God is doing in our own day. We celebrate the Eucharist (Holy Communion, or the Mass) almost every time we gather together for worship, and we are aware that the Altar in this church isn’t “ours,” but rather it’s God’s – and so all of God’s Children are welcome to feast at this Table.

Where faith is not just "taught" but "caught"
Children, K-6, are introduced to the foundational stories and concepts of our faith. Our Sunday School Director of many decades is a scientist, and so he tends to “blow things up” to emphasize a lesson!
For youth, 7-12, there are a series of youth groups, where we explore the most important spiritual issues that kids will face these days, as they wrestle with life and their faith.

Do you sing? Make meatloaf? Pick weeds?
For those who are looking for ways to be involved, there is no shortage of opportunities here. You can sing in the choir, serve as an acolyte or usher, or become a member of the Altar Guild. You can arrange the Altar flowers for the weekend services, you can be a reader, or you can help serve Communion.
You can help out with our Keansburg Soup Kitchen ministry, by making food at home, or by serving the food in Keansburg. You can volunteer with the Giving Garden – which produces over 2,000 pounds of fresh food each year for local food banks – by volunteering to plant, weed, tend, water, or pick. You can go on our annual mission trip to Appalachia where we help make homes warmer, safer, and drier for the rural poor. You can work our twice-yearly rummage sale, you can serve on a committee, or you can help stitch blankets for our healing-blanket ministry.

We are the "Episcopal branch of the world-wide Jesus Movement"
We are Christians who believe in Jesus, and who seek to follow his way of life. We believe that God created everything and that God’s fingerprints can be found all over creation. We believe that the Holy Spirit is active in our world, and is always drawing us to live our faith with boldness.
The Episcopal Church is a place to bring your questions to – and we admit right up front that we don’t have all the answers. At St Mark’s there are a wide variety of Christians – who have diverse backgrounds and perspectives. And while we may have differences in position or opinion on various issues, we all pray together as one body, and kneel side-by-side with each other at the Altar rail each week.
For more detail, you may want to see the Catechism of The Episcopal Church.

Zac’s Treehouse and Sunday Shorts
We have a brand-new area in our balcony for families to worship with their young children. Children can play, read, color, and listen to the service, while their parents and older siblings can fully participate in worship.
Every week we produce a short (>1min) video for children and youth on one of the Sunday lessons. These can be accessed on YouTube, Instagram, or Facebook.
OUTREACH
The Giving Garden at the Ross Farm
At the giving garden we plant, tend, and harvest healthy vegetables to be distributed at local food banks. It's a beautiful way to make a real impact in the lives of people around us, while spending time in a gorgeous setting.
The Giving Garden is a join project between St Mark's, The Ross Farm, St Bernards, and St John on the Mountain.
5,115
Pounds of produce in 2022
OUTREACH
The Soup Kitchen at Keansburg
After Superstorm Sandy ravaged the Jersey coast in 2012 we saw a plea for help from the Episcopal Church in Keansburg - looking for food and help serving meals. We answered that call in 2012, and we've been serving meals there twice a month ever since.
22,000+
Meals served since 2012
PRAYER
Blankets Woven and Blessed for Healing
We have a faithful group of stitchers who help make individual squares which are then made into blankets. These blankets are then blessed and given to someone who is sick, dying, or going through a particularly hard time.
If you, or someone you know, could use a blanket, please let us know.
Psalm 147:3
Help for Homeless Families
We have partnered with HOME of Somerset County to provide emergency housing for homeless families in our community. To prepare for these families we are upgrading and freshening up some of our space so that we can be a home when a family doesn’t have one of their own.
If you’d like to help with this ministry, please let us know!
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Grow.
Here.
St Mark’s Episcopal Church
140 South Finley Ave
Basking Ridge, NJ 07920
Sundays: 8AM and 9:15AM
Wednesdays: 9AM