St. Martin Catholic Church & School

We have select SCRIP cards available if you would like to help us sell out our inventory. Call or contact the parish office if you are interested. Thanks and have a great day. St. Martin pray for us!

On New Year’s Day, we celebrate the Feast of Mary, Mother of God. Our Mass schedule for this feast is: New Year’s Eve at 5:30 p.m. and New Year’s Day at 9:00 a.m.

Please join us for Christmas Mass on Christmas Eve at 3:00pm, 5:30pm and 10:00pm. Christmas Day Mass will be at 9:00. All liturgies will be live-streamed on our Facebook page. Blessings to everyone!

We have decided that we will NOT require reservations for any of the Christmas masses. We are grateful for the Knights of Columbus for purchasing the livestreaming equipment and for the Technology Committee’s hard work to ensure we have the livestream capability for all Christmas Masses. This will allow us to seat overflow from the church in the cafeteria and view the livestream Mass together with those in the body of church. Mass times for Christmas are: Christmas Eve at 3, 5:30 and 10 p.m. Christmas Day at 9 a.m. To read more visit out Website at https://stmartin.diojeffcity.org/.

We are discontinuing our SCRIP program and have a limited number of cards available to sell. Contact the parish office if you would like to purchase any. In particular, we have cards for Ruby Tuesday and Dunkin Donuts which are no longer in Jefferson City. If you know anyone in an area that has these stores this would make nice Christmas gifts.

As we prepare for Christmas break, 1st grade shares the story of the first Christmas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOjqEcuBFf0&feature=youtu.be

Today we celebrate the feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the Gospel reading for today presents to us the story of the Annunciat...ion: "The angel Gabriel appears to Mary to announce the birth of Jesus, and Mary responds, 'Let it be done to me as you say.' Luke 1:26-38 Mary's affirmative response to this seemingly impossible message gives evidence to the grace we know that she possesses from God. Only one who is full of grace can be so receptive to and cooperative with the will of God. Because of this, Mary is the model of discipleship for all Christians. #AdventMoment #ImmaculateConception

Our technology volunteers are continuing to add equipment and tweaks to our live streaming setup. Plus, once we have fiber to the campus our picture will be even better.

Fiber optic line coming under the street. One step closer to having it in our parish and school offices. Thank you to everyone who is making this possible

Sorry for the inconvenience, our new live stream equipment had little technical problem. We will be live streaming the 10:30am Mass today.

1st grade prays everyone is having a blessed Thanksgiving weekend. We hope our rendition of Albuquerque, He’s my Turkey brings a smile to your face! Happy Thanksgiving! Shannon Phelps Schroer

Happy Thanksgiving week! We invite you to join us for a Thanksgiving Day Mass at 9am Thursday morning. There will be NO Mass Friday morning.

St Martin School has an opening for an Administrative Assistant. The applicant must enjoy working with children and a multitude of other people. The applicant should also have up-to-date technology skills and some bookkeeping skills. You must also be willing to become certified in first aid and CPR. If interested, email your resume to our Principal, Julie Clingman, at [email protected]. Resumes accepted until Friday, December 4.

Our technology team and audio/visual expert have been hard at work to bring a better live streaming experience to our community. Thank you to Nathan Brown, Paul Kirsch, Nathan Rackers, Chris Rustemeyer and Ed Faris for all of your hard work! It wasn’t easy getting cabling through some of the walls in church. We will debut this new technology at our Thanksgiving Mass this Thursday at 9 am.

The crosswalk is open!!!

NOTICE: The Knights of Columbus Monday night bingo is cancelled until further notice.

Work continues on the Business 50 improvements. Today they are installing the new crosswalk. We are excited to have a safe way for our students to cross the road.

This will be so much safer for our students at dismissal.

The 8th Grade Pie Sale scheduled for this weekend after the Masses has been CANCELLED.

Janitors saving the day, one duct tape contraption at a time! Terry Joyce Boeckman Peg Boeckman Buersmeyer

After School Care Workers Needed - We are looking for two additional people to help with the after school care program two days per week and also to substitute when needed. If you are interested, please contact Mrs. Clingman at [email protected] or call 893-3519.

Watching the asphalt workers! We are so excited to have our west road by the playground asphalted.

Work continues on Hwy 50 improvements in front of the parish property. Please be careful and patient today.

Join us for a livestream presentation on The Timeless Expression of Catholic Architecture: The Cathedral of St Joseph, as architect William Heyer presents the design proposal for our cathedral tomorrow, Nov. 9 at 7 p.m. Livestream at facebook.com/diojeffcity

Happy Election Day! 1st grade voted! The polls have closed in our classroom and the results were close but Birthday Cake OREOS won with 13 votes against Double-Stuffed OREOS with 9 votes. We enjoyed learning about the voting process! Shannon Phelps Schroer Julie Clingman

There will be a rosary tonight at St. Joseph at 7pm to pray for our country. All are invited.

Our Pumpkin Prayer lesson at PSR this week.

1st grade had so much fun painting Halloween pumpkins this week! Shannon Phelps Schroer

Congratulations to Marvin and Lorraine DeBroeck Smith celebrating 50 years of Marriage.

The excitement is at fever pitch as everyone waits to begin the Halloween parade.

So proud of our very own Aubrie Bernskoetter performing with Safety Kids this year!

Our food drive this week has been amazing! We have collected over 1500 items for the Samaritan Center. Thank you to all that contributed and to those that helped organize this event. Julie Clingman

Last Wednesday was Missouri Day. 4th grade celebrated by decorating Missouri cookies and identified the regions and major cities. Heather Henley

Kindergarten stopped to enjoy this beautiful fall tree in front of church.

Compared to this week, the last two weeks were sunny and warm. Second grade and other classes enjoyed class time outside. Reading is a nice time to spend outside. Kelly Boeckman

REMINDER: Confirmation class will meet tonight at 6pm. Our topic is The Jesus Question. See you there.

Our Home and School Association’s Annual Goblin 5K was such a huge success today. It was a bit chilly but all runners and walkers were troopers! Thank you Dawn Benne Holt for all of your hard work!!

Getting ready for the Goblin 5k. Thankfully no rain.

We are still planning on having the race today, rain or shine!! Please dress for the weather!

Congratulations to Jeremy and Alex Geist who shares their wedding vows today. May God Bless You in your lifetime together.

We were very busy last week but thankfully all testing was done on Thursday. So we had our science egg drop on Friday afternoon. Thank you Father Doke for helping out.

Our preschool and prekindergarten students enjoyed the tractor parade Friday. Thank you to all who participated!!!