When evening had come, Jesus said to his disciples, "Let us go across to the other side." And leaving the crowd behind, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. Other boats were with him. A great windstorm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that the boat was already being swamped. But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion; and they woke him up and said to him, "Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?" He woke up and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, "Peace! Be still!" Then the wind ceased, and there was a dead calm. He said to them, "Why are you afraid? Have you still no faith?" And they were filled with great awe and said to one another, "Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?"SCRIPTURES
Mark 4:35-41 (above)
ANNOUNCEMENTS
+Vestry meeting after church next Sunday, June 29th+Books for the youth at Sawyerville Camp from St. Mark’s will be presented to Memily Colvin at the Tuesday noon Bible Study.
+We are now looking for you to share your musical talents, either singing and /or playing an instrument, solo, duet, or trio, with St. Mark’s during the summer months. Contact Sundra Smith to reserve your date.
+Wonderful, wonderful !Camp McDowell- 
will be having sessions for children all summer. Scholarships are available. Children from all denominations are welcomed and the camp is always happy to place friends in a cabin together. Applications are in my office and a schedule is on the bulletin board. Scholarships are available. Send your children to camp. You will be glad you did. Rev. Sara Scott-Wingo
will be having sessions for children all summer. Scholarships are available. Children from all denominations are welcomed and the camp is always happy to place friends in a cabin together. Applications are in my office and a schedule is on the bulletin board. Scholarships are available. Send your children to camp. You will be glad you did. Rev. Sara Scott-Wingo+Prayer Requests- If you would like the congregation to pray for a specific request for you or your family, please place your prayer request in the box on the back table in the sanctuary. If you would like prayer but not have the details published in the bulletin, then make a note that your prayer request is “unspoken.”
+In recognition of Fathers' Day boutonnieres were pinned to the men’s lapels as they entered the nave. The boutonnieres were designed by Bertha Smith.
Bertha Smith
VISITORS
Rev. Edward J. Wilson, retired rector of St. Mark’s visited today. During the Peace Fr. Wilson received warm salutations from parishioners and clergy alike. Part of his retirement has been spent filling in where needed as a substitute priest in other parishes .This was one of few Sundays he was not scheduled to fill in. During the month of July he will substitute at Trinity in Bessemer. He says he has had successful cataract surgery and will have knee replacement in August. We will keep Fr. Wilson in our prayers as he prepares for his upcoming surgery.
l. to r. Cecil Washington, Rev. Edward J. Wilson,
Bertha SmithVISITORS
Rev. Edward J. Wilson, retired rector of St. Mark’s visited today. During the Peace Fr. Wilson received warm salutations from parishioners and clergy alike. Part of his retirement has been spent filling in where needed as a substitute priest in other parishes .This was one of few Sundays he was not scheduled to fill in. During the month of July he will substitute at Trinity in Bessemer. He says he has had successful cataract surgery and will have knee replacement in August. We will keep Fr. Wilson in our prayers as he prepares for his upcoming surgery.
l. to r. Cecil Washington, Rev. Edward J. Wilson,
George Ladd, Paul Goldman
The Origin of Father's Day "The idea of Father’s Day was conceived by Sonora Dodd of Spokane, Wash.,
while she listened to a Mother’s Day sermon in 1909, according to the U.S.
Census Bureau. Dodd wanted a special day to honor her father, William Smart,
a widowed Civil War veteran who was left to raise his six children on a
farm.A day in June was chosen for the first Father’s Day celebration—June 19,
1910, proclaimed by Spokane’s mayor because it was the month of William Smart’s
birth.The first presidential proclamation honoring fathers was issued in 1966 when
President Lyndon Johnson designated the third Sunday in June as Father’s
Day. Father’s Day has been celebrated annually since 1972 when President
Richard Nixon signed the public law that made it permanent."***
"Although the name of the event is usually understood as a plural
possessive (i.e. "day belonging to fathers"), which would under normal
English punctuation guidelines be spelled "Fathers' Day", the most common spelling is "Father's Day", as if it were a singular possessive (i.e. "day belonging to Father").
Dodd used the "Fathers' Day" spelling on her original petition for the
holiday,[1] but the spelling "Father's Day" was already used in 1913 when a bill was
introduced to the US Congress as the first attempt to establish the
holiday,[3] and it was still spelled the same way when its creator was commended in 2008 by the U.S. Congress".[7]
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