Summer Sunday Conversations

St. Mark’s is pleased to bring back Summer Sunday Conversations. This series of conversational forums held after the service offer the opportunity to learn about some of the causes and organizations about which our parishioners are passionate.

• July 13 – Family Promise of Bergen County

  Paul Shackford, President of the Board of Trustees of Family Promise of Bergen County, will join us for this valuable conversation.

• July 27 – Community Calls

  Community Calls, a coalition of faith and local organization leaders working to strengthen community-wide relationships and disrupt tensions, aims to drive greater social connectedness, awareness, and grassroots action across differences of faith tradition, race, and ethnicity among Bergen County residents.

• August 3 – The Venerable Diane Riley

  Archdeacon for Mission and Service; Co-leader, Commission on Justice, Peace, and Racial Reconciliation

• August 10 – Marsha Mackey and Joan Conley

  Marsha and Joan will share their experiences from the Diocesan Pilgrimage to Alabama

• August 17 – BOOST – Diocesan Task Force for Neurodivergence
• August 24 – Screening of the movie A Case for Love at 4:00 p.m.
• September 7 – Keys2Success

  Keys 2 Success aims to transform the lives of Newark’s youth by demonstrating that accessible, high-quality music education can be a powerful catalyst for personal growth, academic achievement, and community transformation, creating a generation of young people equipped with both musical skills and leadership capabilities to strengthen their communities.