Pillars
These are the five areas of lay-led programs.
1. Worship
Coordinator: Michael Knipe
Vestry Liaison: Nick Rogers
Head Verger: Josie Jordan
Laying on of Hands: Patricia Catalano
Vestry Liaison: Jan Lipscomb
Online services (including Sound system): Charlie Rupp
Acolytes: Doris Burton (9:00 & 11:15)
Altar Guild: Susan Ryerson(9:00), Doris Burton(11:15)
Ushers:
Bread & Wine: Michael Swift and Terri Poxon-Pearson(9:00), Madison and Marshall Thorpe(11:15)
Readers: Maureen Shea(9:00), Andrew Stafford(11:15)
St. Mark’s Meditation Center: Michele Rivard
2. Christian Education
Co-Directors: Annabelle Swift, Rob Hall, Rita Ossolinski, Steve Dalzell.
Vestry Liaison: Doug Padgett
Sunday School: Caleb Nelson Amaker (staff position)
Catechesis Program: Stephanie Deutch
Safe Church, Safe Communities (formerly Safeguarding God’s Children): Caleb Nelson Amaker
3. Arts
Co-Chairs: Elin Whitney-Smith and JR Randall
Vestry Liaison: Doug Padgett
Dance Studio offers dance classes for all ages/levels of experience www.stmarksdancestudio.org
Director: Dorthy (Dot) Walker dancindot1@aol.com
Director emirita: Rosie Brooks
Music Studio Director: Jeff Kempskie, Jeff@stmarks.net,
Voice: Diane Atherton dianesvoicestudio@gmail.com
Piano: Anh Nguyen anh.nguyen@neo-academy.us
Sasha Beresovsky avberesovsky@gmail.com
Saeha Youn saeha.youn@gmail.com
The St. Mark’s Players is a participatory company that uses theater to explore our lives – theologically and personally – and to serve our community and the St. Mark’s Parish. stmarksplayers.org
President: Margaret Chapman, margachapman@gmail.com
The Yoga Center is the oldest, continuously operating Yoga Center in the DC area! Our classes welcome people at all points in Yoga and in life. We emphasize effective breathing, Asanas (comfortably held Yoga poses), relaxation, positive thinking, and meditation.
Director: Simone Mishler st_marks_yoga@yahoo.com
https://www.stmarks.net/connect/arts/yoga
4. Parish Life
Chair:
Vestry Liaison: Travis Beatty
20s & 30s: Jillian McGreen
Hospitality: Kenn Allen and Maureen Shea
College of Crustaceans: Doris Burton
Dozier Library: Peter Hawley
Lambda Lions: Mitch Wood
Lichfield (Cathedral) Link: Doris Burton
Maundy Thursday Agape Dinner: Parish Life Manager
Middle Agers: Unoccupied
Parish Picnic and Fair: Vestry and Parish Life Manager
Parish Retreat: Senior Warden
Pub Steward: Margie Ware
Reading Group: Linda Ewald
Third Agers: Unoccupied
Women’s Investment Network: Rita Ossolinski
Woman to Woman: Edna Boone
Widows & Widowers: Mary Cooper
North/East Maryland: Doris Burton & Michelle Strange
Mens’ Group: Matthew Viator
5. Service and Social Justice
Co-Chair: Edna Boone
Co-Chair: Holly Kreutter
Vestry Liaison: Kristina Keenan
Good Neighbors Capitol Hill/Refugee Steering Committee: Karen Getman and Maureen Shea
Sustainable Villages Honduras: Betsy Agle
Lenten Mitebox Campaign: The Board
Incarceration Justice: Jan Lipscomb
Salvation Army Grate Patrol: Carmen Frias
Food Baskets: Michael Knipe
Everyone Home DC’s Family Support: Susan Sedgewick
Newtown Vigil for Victims of Gun Violence: Michele Morgan
Greater DC Diaper Bank: Marika Klein
Green Lions: Leslie Allen
Migrants: Julie Murphy
Navajoland: Steve Dalzell, Kit Arrington
Bishop Walker School: Steve Dalzell
Samaritan Ministry: Peter Hawley and Mary Neznek
Washington Interfaith Network: Kit Arrington, Edna Boone, Josie Jordan