2005

St. Mark’s Episcopal Church
3100 Murfreesboro Pike
P. O. Box 741
Antioch, Tennessee 37011
615-361-4100

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From the Daughters of the King

  Once again, we thank you for your generous support for our mission to help the homeless in our community.  You continue to supply bottled water, backpacks, warm hats, gloves, gym bags, soap, lotion, band aids, rain ponchos, and other items too numerous to mention.  On Sunday, February 5, the St. Mark’s DOK packed 27 bags with these “necessities” along with some little extras.  These bags and an assortment of shirts, jackets, jeans, blankets, and other miscellaneous items were delivered to Room in the Inn at St. Ignatius Catholic Community on February 10.  As we offer you our thanks, we are also asking you to continue your support by bringing items to St. Mark’s and placing them in that big, old, ugly cardboard carton in Reynolds Hall marked “Backpack Project.”

 In addition to the items donated by St. Mark’s parishioners, the project has received more than a carload of items from members of Sherry Walker’s University 1010 class at Middle Tennessee State University.  In a time when some shake their heads at this “younger, materialistic generation,” these students have demonstrated an overwhelming compassion and willingness to help.

 Sherry's class consists of 18 first year college students who are taking the class to aid them in the transition to adult responsibility characteristic of attending a university. For the overwhelming majority of students this is the first time they have been away from the safety net of parents. One of the goals of the class is to assist these young people in identifying personal values and making choices consistent with those values; to that end, the class participates in a community project that is designed to force them to step outside that which is familiar and to think in terms of choices having consequences. The class divided into three groups and worked as teams to collect items for the backpack project. One team brought in 47 bottles of water along with an assortment of backpacks filled with hats and scarves; another team donated more than six grocery bags of assorted toiletries while the third team provided blankets, gloves and socks. The class will be collecting items for the next backpack distribution in March and have continued to bring items to class even when it has not part of their assignment for the week.

ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP:

A Day of Creation Care 

 
Trevecca Nazarene University - 333 Murfreesboro Pike Nashville, TN 

April 18, 2006 10:30 AM in the Chapel

Guest Speaker:  Dr. Susan Drake Emmerich, former U.S. representative and Delegate to the United Nations on Environmental Affairs Department of State Dr Chris Farrell, Director of the Medical Technology Program and Associate Professor of Biology at Trevecca hosts.

Dr. Emmerich, founder and director of  the "Tangier Watermen's Stewardship for the Chesapeake" and a U.S. negotiator in the 1992 Earth Summit, Biological Diversity Convention, Global Climate Convention, and International Coral Reef Initiative.
She has worked for the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the World Bank, EPA, and Department of Interior. Currently, Dr. Emmerich is an Assistant Professor at Trinity Christian College where she teaches environmental science and directs an environmental Research partnership between Trinity Christian College and the Lake Katherine Nature Preserve in addition to consulting, speaking and filmmaking