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var main_text = "Welcome to St Mark's Darling Point. Whether you are young or mature, single or a family, student or worker, Christian or non-Christian (or perhaps not sure), we look forward to meeting you at one of our services soon.
Follow the links below to find out more about life at St Mark's.";
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extra_text = right_image(who_we_are.src, "25", "0") + "St Mark's is an Anglican Church located in Darling Point in the eastern suburbs of Sydney. Our three Sunday services (8.00am, 10.00am and 5.30pm) are different in style but each is focused on Jesus and the Bible. The services aim to help us grow in our understanding of Jesus through Bible reading and preaching, and to respond to God through prayer, confession and songs/hymns.
Beyond the Sunday services we seek to serve each other and the broader community through midweek bible study groups, prayer meetings, short courses on topics including Simply Christianity and Exploring Christian Marriage, and social events.";
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extra_text = right_image(pulpit.src, "25", "0") + "We base our beliefs and practices firmly on the Bible. In essence, we believe that the Bible is the true word of God and teaches us that sin is the problem and Jesus is the answer. By repenting of sin and turning to Jesus as our Lord and Saviour we can live renewed lives by the Spirit, in service of each other, for the glory of God.
You can read more about what the Bible teaches about God, His Son Jesus and our need for a relationship with him here. We also run short courses for those wanting to understand or remind themselves of the basic beliefs of Christianity.
We share in the broader mission of the Anglican Sydney Diocese: To glorify God by proclaiming our saviour the Lord Jesus Christ in prayerful dependence on the Holy Spirit, so that everyone will hear his call to repent, trust and serve Christ in love, and be established in the fellowship of his disciples while they await his return.";
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extra_text = "" + right_image(boak.src, "25", "10") + "Rector - The Reverend Canon Boak Jobbins, OAM
Boak has been the Rector of St Mark's since the beginning of 2002. He preaches at all three services, and particularly pastors the 8.00am and 10.00am congregations. Boak has been in ministry for over 35 years at various churches in Sydney and Adelaide. Before coming to Darling Point he was the Dean of Sydney, working from St Andrew's Cathedral. He is married to Di and they have three grown children.
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Dan joined St Mark's at the start of 2010 as the Assistant Minister, being primarily responsible for pastoring the 5:30 service. He is passionate about exploring the riches of God's word with others and seeing its life changing effects. Dan is married to Emily and they have two young daughters, Ashlyn and Rhianna. |
Director of Music
William Clark
Churchwardens
Ken Patteson
Matthew Cox
Alicia Watson
Church Secretary
Helen Hoffman
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extra_text = right_image(outside_view.src, "25", "10") + "Divine Service has been celebrated at St Mark's on its present site since Sunday, 7 November 1852. The church celebrated 150 years of service to the community on the weekend of 9 & 10 November 2002.
Services at Darling Point were first held in a coach house on Mona Road, styled the 'Chapel of St Mark's' made available by Thomas Ware Smart, of Mona, Darling Point. The land on which the present church was built was given by wool merchant, gold mining and cold storage entrepreneur Thomas Sutcliffe Mort, whose home Greenoaks, now Bishopscourt, lends it name to the Greenoaks Avenue adjacent to the church. One of the early rectors of the church was the Reverend Geroge Fairfowl McArthur, son of Hannibal Macarthur of the Parramatta wool growing Macarthurs (though with changed spelling).
The church was modeled on Holy Trinity, Horncastle in Lincolnshire, England. Edmund Blacket recommended the design and oversaw construction. The foundation stone was laid in 1848 by Bishop of Australia, the Right Reverend William Broughton. Memorials inside the church commemorate local citizenry who worshipped there and contributed to Church and State: such names as Mort, Smart, Street, Fairfax and Cutler are represented.
In recent times Woollahra Municipal Council has, by popular demand, imposed height restrictions on the development near the church, to maintain its position as a focal point of the area.
Honourable Engagement\: St Mark's Church Darling Point\: The First 150 Years by Susan Mary Woolcock Withycombe was published in 2002 and is a recently written history of St Mark's Darling Point. It is available by contacting the Church office.";
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For upcoming news and events see What's On.";
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Bookshelf - Short book reviews
Thoughtful Christianity
CPX - The Centre for Public Christianity
Centre for Apologetic Scholarship and Education
Anglican Church Websites
Sydney Anglicans
Anglican Church Diocese of Sydney
Anglicare
Anglican Church of Australia
Books & Resources
Matthias Media
Koorong Book Store
Moore Books
Addiction Recovery Group
Overcomers Outreach
Jesus. All About Life.
Campaign Website
Public Website";
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10am Roster
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var main_text = "Attending one of our Sunday services is a great place to start if you are interested in finding out more about St Mark's. However, St Mark's is about much more than one hour in the pews on Sunday. Our activities continue throughout the week. Explore the links below to learn more about what's happening at St Mark's";
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extra_text = right_image(people.src, "25", "10") + "Our short courses and Midweek Groups are a great way to learn more about Jesus and the Bible as well as to get connected and make friends. These groups aim to grow our understanding of the Bible and to encourage us to change direction and focus our lives on God.
Short courses
Who's this Jesus guy? We run a short course called 'Simply Christianity' for those who want to understand (or remind themselves) of the basic principles of Christian belief. It will consider issues such as who is Jesus, what is his message and what is its relevance to me? It is a great way to find out more about the Bible in an informal setting in which questions and insightful debate are encouraged. A follow up course Just for Starters is run for those who want to continue to find out more. For more information email our Assistant Minister, Dan Cole
Midweek groups
If you're new to St Mark's but have yet to get connected, join a Midweek Group. Get to know people, make friends, enjoy one another's hospitality and spend time reading and discussing the Bible in a relaxed and informal environment.
Midweek Groups are currently held weekly on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings, Wednesday afternoons and monthly on Friday evenings. They are hosted in Darling Point, Waverley, Woollahra, Paddington, Rosebery and in the church hall. A women's group meets on Wednesday mornings and has a créche for young children.
For more information email our Assistant Minister, Dan Cole
Other opportunities
From time to time we organise other opportunites including parish dinners, day retreats and weekends away.";
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It is a privilege that through Jesus, Christians can pray and speak directly to God. At St Mark's we aim to be devoted to prayer as a church at our services, as a community in prayer groups and individually in our daily lives.
Prayer meetings are held weekly on Tuesday mornings at 7.30am in the Howard Lee Hall (the brick hall behind the church building) and quarterly on Wednesday evenings commencing at 7.30pm.";
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St Mark's bells are rung by ringers from all over Sydney and we need new local recruits to join the team. Bellringers come from all walks of life and most age groups. This is a team activity that promotes fitness, fellowship and finesse!
The bells are rung each Sunday morning for morning services, and for weddings and other special occasions as requested. A practice session is held weekly on Mondays, from 6.00pm-7.30pm.
If you are interested in learning how to ring the bells, or would like more information, please contact:
James Bunn - Tower Captain
T: (02) 9232 5800
F: (02) 9232 5900
M: 0412 223 777
E: jeb@tpl.com.au
Robert Walters - Ringing Master
T: (02) 9502 2408
E: lrbwalt@yahoo.com.au
The bellringers of St Mark's Darling Point are members of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Bellringers Inc. For more information, visit www.anzab.org.au";
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Dave and Leonie Painter, Church Missionary Society, Cambodia
Dave and Leonie, with their children Joshua and Grace, work with CMS in Cambodia at Phnom Penh Bible College. Graduates from the college go on to serve the growing church throughout Cambodia. Click here for more information.
Anglicare
Anglicare is the urban mission and community care arm of the Sydney Anglican Church. In response to the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, Anglicare seeks to provide care for all people by addressing emotional, social and physical needs and by bringing the gospel message of Jesus that alone meets spiritual needs. Click here for more information.
Anglican Youthworks
Youthworks partners with churches and schools in the Sydney Diocese and beyond to present the gospel of Jesus, so that children and young people have the opportunity to respond to, and be nurtured in, the faith. Click here for more information.
Bible Society
The Bible Society's mission is to provide the Word of God to all people, in their own language, in a format they can use and at a price they can afford. They work with many different groups and churches all over the world to translate the Bible into people's own language, to teach people to read the Bible for themselves, and to give Bibles away. Click here for more information.
Mike, Chantalle (and Rachel) Keith - Bush Church Aid Society of Australia
BCA has a mission to the isolated, remote urban and rural people of Australia. BCA works to proclaim Christ; to nurture Christians in their faith and ministry; to strengthen local Christian communities in their mission; to provide services of Christian care and advocacy; to develop an understanding of Christ's mission and to promote active partnership throughout the church. The Keiths are serving at Lightning Ridge with BCA. Click here for more information.";
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The choir sings at the 8:00 a.m. service each Sunday from February to December (except the fourth Sunday in the month) and is often asked to sing at functions and services outside the parish as well.
The choral repertoire is drawn from five centuries of church music and St Mark's Choir maintains a balance of anthems, settings and motets for all periods. The underlying principle is that the text must be relevant to 21st century worship and be biblically based or founded upon a particular Christian doctrine.
At Festivals the music is more celebratory and there is always special music at Christmas and Easter services. The service of Nine Lessons and Carols is a popular service led by the choir and held on a Sunday evening before Christmas. Sections of the choir sing at weddings and sometimes funerals.
If you are interested in being part of the ministry of music please contact the church secretary for more information.";
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St Mark's has three Sunday services, all focused on Jesus and the Bible, but each with a slightly different style and format.";
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extra_text = right_image(evening_service.src, "25", "10") + "The 5:30pm service aims to be modern and vibrant in style whilst substantial and relevant in content. Our service is relaxed in culture but serious about Jesus. We welcome all - those new to church or long-standing Christians - to hear the Bible's relevance to our modern lives. Our goal is for people to come, hear God's Word, make new friends, meet Jesus and Live Beyond Now.
If you are keen to reflect on the questions at the core of life, or to hear what the Bible has to say about Jesus, or to see what Christians are like, or to make some new friends and share Christian fellowship, then pay us a visit. We would love to meet you.
A créche is provided for kids and a there is also a cry room with change table, toys and a speaker broadcasting the service for parents with babies.";
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Babies and infants
A cry room is available inside the church during all services for parents to care for babies and infants whilst taking part in the service.
Toddlers and pre-schoolers
The 10.00am and 5.30pm services provide a supervised créche for children who are walking, aged 1-5. At 10am, you can take your children out during the singing of the first hymn to the créche in the lower parish hall. At 5:30pm parents should drop their children at the créche in the Howard Lee Hall (the brick hall behind the church building) prior to the commencement of the service.
Junior Jivers
All-singing and all-dancing activity for toddlers. An hour of fun and morning tea on Monday mornings at 10am during school terms. Email Junior Jivers for more details or to register.
Kids' Church
The 10.00am service provides a Kid's Church (a modern take on Sunday School) for children to the end of Primary School. Children should join their parents in the church and will be invited to go out to their programme during the singing of the first hymn. You can get a taste of Kid's Church life at the Kid's Church blog.
Church Lite
The 10.00am service runs the Church Lite programme, an informal discussion group for junior high school students.
Young adults
Senior high school students and school leavers are encouraged to attend the 5.30pm service.";
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Marriage Preparation Course
We value marriage and want to help engaged couples lay good foundations for their future together. To help in that we run a four week marriage preparation course called Exploring Christian Marriage for all couples who decide to get married at St Mark's.
It is a big-picture course about the values that shape the way we conduct our lives, including our marriages. It is a course about finding the right spiritual resources for life and marriage. It aims to introduce you to the spiritual resources that Christianity has brought to married couples for centuries, and continues to supply today.";
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var main_text = "St Mark's is located on the corner of Darling Point Road and Greenoaks Avenue, Darling Point.
Church Office
T: (02) 9363 3657
F: (02) 9328 7069
E: stmarkdp@bigpond.net.au
Mailing address: 53 Darling Point Rd, Darling Point NSW 2027";
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From the city catch the 323, 324, 325, 326 to Edgecliff station and then continue on foot to Darling Point Road as per instructions below. Alternatively, catch the 327 from the city or Bondi Junction to Darling Point Road.
By train
Catch a train to Edgecliff station (Cronulla/Bondi Junction train line - blue line). Continue on foot as per instructions below.
By foot
St Mark's is a 10 min walk from Edgecliff train station. Cross New South Head Road and head towards Lower Darling Point Road.' Walk up Lower Darling Point Road until it turns into Darling Point Rd.' Continue walking 200 metres until you reach Greenoaks Avenue.' The church is on the corner.";
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var main_text = "Maybe you are hungry for change in your life, maybe you don't want anything to change. Either way, the gospel of Jesus is news for the whole world.
The gospel of Jesus is news - it has content, which may be true or false. The basic response to news is to believe it or disbelieve it - to treat it as true and act upon it, or to treat it as false, and act accordingly.
The gospel is about Jesus Christ. He is the key to understanding Christianity. To understand Jesus we need to fit Jesus into part of a larger story - the story of God and human beings, as explained by the Bible.
Although the Bible is a varied collection of writings gathered together over many generations, it has a consistent storyline as you read through it from Genesis to Revelation. The major events of this story are:
Creation
The Bible's opening words are, In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. (Genesis 1:11 - NIV) While the opening chapters of Genesis are not a straightforward historical account of creation, they do tell us the truth about God, creation, and in particular human beings. We are not simply a product of blind natural forces; God has fashioned and formed us. We are not just another animal roaming the earth; Genesis 1 tells us that God has invested human beings with particular prominence and responsibility in his universe. He has made us in his own image. We were made to relate to him and to bring something of God himself to his world.
The Fall
But things have not gone according to God's stated intentions. The story of Adam and Eve and their eating the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, (found in Genesis 3) tells us that we have rejected God, and we no longer walk with God in his garden. The story of Adam and Eve is our story. We are a child who has rejected its parent. We have become deeply corrupt. We all fall short of what God made us to be, and in building the life that we want for ourselves and striving to become the person that we want to be, we refuse the life that God created us to live, and we become someone other than God created us to be. In short, we reject God. The word for this is sin. Sin is to fail to treat another rightly. We all fail to treat God, and one another rightly. This attracts the judgement of God and stirs up the anger of God, and rightly so. Decay and death are expressions of God's judgement upon our sin.
A Plan to Save
Yet God also loves everything he has made, including each human being and is committed to taking his creation where he planned for it to go. Having made an initial investment in human beings in creation, God has made a second, even greater investment in human beings, to save us from being written off, and to retrieve us for his good purposes.The Bible says that God desires everyone to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all. (1 Timothy 2:4-6 - NIV)
So God's second investment in us is his own Son, Jesus Christ. The Apostle Paul describes Jesus as a mediator, that is, someone who can go between estranged parties and bring them together. Jesus is God himself living as a human being in order to fix us and our relationship with him. Jesus is the only perfect human being. He is the only one who can stand before God for us. Because Jesus is both divine and human, he, and only he can be a true mediator between us and God.
But how did Jesus actually do his work of mediation? The Bible tells us he gave himself as a ransom for all. A ransom is a price paid to set someone free. Jesus paid this price in his death on the cross. Jesus' death provides the ransom that can set us free from our corruption and God's anger. Jesus is the mediator who brings us to God, and sets us right with him.
Jesus' death was not the end of him, however. God raised him from the dead, and took him into heaven, where, as the Bible puts it, he sat down at God's right hand. All this indicates Jesus' success in his mission to reconcile people to God and hence defeat death. It also indicates that God has invested Jesus with all authority in heaven and on earth. Jesus, far from lying in some forgotten grave, is God's ruler of all and will be judge of all.
A Response Required
God has a twofold investment in you: He has created you in his image and he has provided a ransom that can set you right with him. But who gets the benefit of this ransom? Whom does Jesus' death save?
John 3:16 is a famous verse of the Bible, because it sums up the heart of the Bible's message. It says;
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life (John 3:16 - NIV)
We have already mentioned God's love and his giving of his Son so that a world gone bad would not perish and go to eternal and spiritual ruin. What is new here is the news that it is believers in Jesus that do not perish, but have eternal life.
Believing in is not believing that. I can believe that Kevin Rudd is Prime Minister of Australia without believing in Kevin Rudd as Prime Minister of Australia. Believing in implies a personal commitment to someone which expresses itself in action. If I believe in Kevin Rudd as Prime Minister, I will vote for his party at elections. If I believe in Jesus, I will have confidence before God that my sin is dealt with, and I am reconciled with him. I will also apply myself to learning from him how to live life. Hence, believing in Jesus is not cheap.
Believing in Jesus does not make someone a bigoted wowser. No doubt there are bigoted wowser Christians, just as there are bigots and those who wish to make everybody else just like them in all creeds, whether secular or religious. But if you reflect on the Christians you actually know, you may realise that they are in many cases, very fine people, whose Christian faith reinforces many of their good features. (If you don't know any Christians, come to St Mark's and meet some.)
Believing in Jesus is not a leap in the dark. Some have characterised Christian faith as essentially irrational, as if it is in a different category to other beliefs people hold about the world. Yet major claims of Christianity, such as the central claim that Jesus rose from the dead, are open to intellectual scrutiny. While there is no knock-down argument either way on many such questions, it is possible to investigate the available evidence and defend Christian belief at an intellectual level, in just the same way as say, atheism, or agnosticism, may be believed and defended. Believing in Jesus is in fact a well-adjusted response to reality.
A group of people asked Jesus, 'What must we do to do the works God requires?' Rather than speaking first about obeying moral rules, doing good, saying prayers and the like, Jesus answered, 'The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.' (John 6:28-29 - NIV) The gospel of Jesus Christ is good news to be believed and acted upon.
There is much more to be said. Check out St Mark's or another gospel-minded church and read one of the Gospels in a Bible - Matthew, Mark, Luke or John.
We believe this news is the most liberating, enlightening and essential message there is for human beings to grasp.
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