2024 Fall High School Youth Retreat at Camp Huston

by on September 27, 2024 with No Comments

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 5 P.M. THROUGH SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2024, 1 P.M., at Camp Huston in Gold Bar, WA (about 75 minutes from Seattle), registration required.

All youth, 9th to 12th grade are invited to this weekend of fun, relaxation, prayer, and reflection at Camp Huston. The theme for the retreat is Let's Talk Vocation - What are you called to do with your life? The cost is $150, which includes lodging and all meals. (You can pay on saintmarks.org/give -- scroll to "Youth Retreat.") Contact Rebekah Gilmore with questions. Registration deadline is Friday, October 11.

UPDATE: Camp Huston included some photos of the Saint Mark's youth in their monthly newsletter. They wrote:

In October, St. Mark's youth came to Huston for the weekend and volunteered some of their time to do Community Service. This was a big help to our staff - THANK YOU ST. MARK'S!!

Click photos to enlarge.

Youth Group Pizza, Hang-Out, and Body Prayer

by on May 4, 2023 with No Comments

Youth Group Pizza, Hang-Out, and Body Prayer with Saint Mark's Coolest Grandma Betsy Bell

SUNDAY, MAY 7, 5:30–7 P.M., cathedral nave

Betsy has probably hiked more mountain miles than you've walked in your life. She's fantastic. After we fill you up with pizza, Betsy will lead us in Qi Gong practice and Body Prayer. Don't know what that is? Good. Come try out a very different way to ground yourself in the Holy.

Sign up here so we order enough pizza.

For more info email Wendy Barrie at: wbarrie@saintmarks.org

Saint Mark’s Schola and the Early Music Youth Academy Present: Baroque Choral Favorites

by on March 9, 2023 with No Comments

SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 4 P.M., in the cathedral nave

The Early Music Youth Academy chamber orchestra, part of Seattle Historical Arts for Kids, joins forces with the teen choristers of the Saint Mark's Cathedral Schola for a program of glorious Baroque choral-orchestral favorites. This short and sweet concert of favorite highlights from Baroque choral-orchestral masterworks will include movements from Vivaldi's Gloria, Handel's Messiah, and (especially appropriate for Lent) Pergolesi's Stabat Mater. String students using period bows are joined by their colleague on Baroque bassoon and by guest artist coach Henry Lebedinsky, organ, guest artist Brian Shaw, trumpet, and director Shulamit Kleinerman, violin. Saint Mark's Cathedral Choir School Director Rebekah Gilmore will conduct the ensemble joined by the exceptionally skilled young singers of the cathedral Schola.

Admission is free; free-will donations will be accepted at the event in support of music education at Seattle Historical Arts for Kids and Saint Mark's Cathedral.

“All Hallows Eve Eve”—Activities and Movie Screening for Children and Youth

by on October 13, 2022 with No Comments

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30, 12:30 TO 2:30 P.M., Bloedel Hall

Hallow means holy, and Hallowe'en or All Hallows Eve is the night before All Saints' Day, a time when the veil between this world and the next is thin.

All children and youth are invited to join together in Bloedel Hall at 12:30 p.m. on Sunday, October 30, for a light lunch and pumpkin painting or carving, followed by a screening of the Academy Award-nominated animated film The Secret of Kells. (All ages are welcome for lunch and pumpkin painting, although The Secret of Kells is recommended for ages 8 and up.) Read a review here.

Please RSVP to Canon Barrie with the names and ages of those attending. A suggested donation of $5 per person is greatly appreciated!