A Clam Bake

When one comes to St. Mark's one cannot help but feel apart of a loving close community. When someone comes up the hill repeated, this loving place and how people are treated, start rubbing off.  When someone comes enough, our ideas and ways of being in the world become apart of you. 

They become so much apart of you that when you have been there for many years (say 15 or so) you find yourself in far off places showing people you have never met the hospitality of Christ. 

This evening our youth were invited to a clam bake here on the island. We ate clams with almost everyone living on our street and our youth were talking with kids, other teenagers, and even adults about who they were, where they were from, and most importantly why 13 people from St. Mark's traveled all the way to Whidbey Island for a week. 

It's was wonderful to see our youth who are so far away from home help people who were from here feel so at ease.   They are growing and maturing and leading the way for the Kingdom of God. For these young people I say thanks be to God!