Craig’s Commencement of ministry service was held on Saturday Aug 2 at a packed St Mark’s. Bishop Glenn Davies spoke powerfully of our charge to make disciples of all nations. Warm welcomes were extended to Craig and his family by local community leaders and the congregation at St Mark’s. The singing was a great testimony…
Keep ReadingAt 3pm on Saturday August 3rd we’re going to hold a special ‘commencement of ministry’ service for our new Pastor Craig Schafer (even though we’ve already had him hard at work for a couple of weeks). Bishop Glenn Davies (pictured) will speak, there will be a wonderful afternoon tea and it will be a great…
Keep ReadingThis week in our church , across all our Sunday gatherings we’ll beginning a series of talks that focus on the final chapters of the first book of the Bible; Genesis 37 – 50. And what a story it is! The final chapters of Genesis record a family saga that is loaded with intrigue, dubious…
Keep ReadingCraig Schafer will be taking up the appointment of Rector of St Mark’s from July 10, 2008. Craig and his wife Julie have been married for 10 years and have two little girls, Emma and Zoe. Craig has been involved in ministry at Springwood-Winmalee Anglican Churches since the beginning of 2005. His key responsibilities have…
Keep ReadingWe got a some free publicity this week. The Anglican newspaper Southern Cross ran a story on the website about Craig’s move plus a smaller article in the print edition. You can check out the story (and a family photo) here.
Keep ReadingGod has been very gracious and has enabled us to secure the domain name stmarks.com.au (although given that you’re here you probably figured that out). To celebrate we’re moving to a CMS based website. I don’t really know what that means, except it is now much easier to add things to the website. Over the…
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