200 South Wille Street, Mount Prospect, Illinois 60056
Phone: 847-253-0631
Fax: 847-253-5387
Email: stmarkmp@stmarkmp.org
St. Mark Lutheran Church (ELCA)
Hello & Welcome!
Join us for In Person Worship on Sunday mornings at 10am.
Join us for Worship On-line!
Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/StMarkLutheranIL/
as well as
our YouTube Channel https://tinyurl.com/stmarkmpyoutube
Sunday Worship Services are LIVE on Facebook at 10am then posted to YouTube afterward
2024 Holy Week & Easter Worship Opportunities
Maundy Thursday Worship - Thursday, March 28 at 7pm
Good Friday Worship - Friday, March 29 at 7pm
Easter Worship - Sunday, March 31 at 10am
Easter Breakfast served 8:30-9:45am
Offerings & Donations
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We also accept contributions through Zelle using our email address - Stmarkmp@stmarkmp.org ,
Bill Pay through your bank or a check payable to St. Mark Lutheran Church
and mailed to 200 S. Wille St., Mount Prospect, IL 60056
The choice is yours!
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Announcements & Events
New Members
Are you interested in officially becoming a member of St. Mark? We are gathering people to be welcomed as new members and would love for you to be a part of it! Contact the Church Office.
WOW & FaithWalk
Children's Christian Education Programs
(September - May)
Contact the Church Office for information on these programs.
WOW - (Preschool (PK3) through 5th grade)
FaithWalk - (Confirmation Program for 6th-8th grade) meets weekly on Mondays
4:30 - 6:00 pm.
Taking Faith Home
Taking Faith Home are weekly flyers that are a simple tool to help your family extend their faith formation practices at home. Based on the worship scripture text for the week, each flyer contains faith-building scripture, activities and devotions to help you and your family share and live your faith together during the week. Attached are the Taking Faith Home flyers:
Mar 24 - Palm Sunday
Mar 28/29 - Maundy Thursday/Good Friday
Mar 31 - Easter
Migrant Ministry
See below for the minutes of the Migrant Ministry Committee meetings as they explore the feasibility of housing an asylum-seeking family.
Minutes for 2-29-24
Minutes for 3-12-24
Book Club
The St. Mark Book Club welcomes all readers, men as well as women. We meet at 1:00 PM in the Library at St. Mark on the 4th Monday each month, with the exception
of December. We read a variety of books and authors and have lively discussions
each month. Here is the reading list for the first part of 2024.
ST. MARK 2024 BOOK CLUB SELECTIONS
April 22 - Killer of the Flower Moon by David Grann
May 28* - All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
June 24 - Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
July 22 - The Woman They Could Not Silence by Kate Moore* Meeting on Tuesday due to Memorial Day Holiday
Contact the church office for more information.
B(older) U
Here is a list of activities
that are currently scheduled:Movies
Movies will be on the 4th Thursday of the month at 1:00. The current movie scheduled is:
Lunch and Learn
Lunch and Learn will meet on the 2nd Thursday of each month at 11:30 am in the Great Room
If there is a topic for the lunch and learn or movie you would like to suggest, please
contact Linda Olson or the church office.B(older) U activities take place at
The St. Mark Center in the Assembly Room unless otherwise noted
Adult Education
Sundays following worship
in the Great Room
The Sunday morning Adult Education Forums for April will return to a familiar format.
On April 7, the class will discuss an "I Am A Lutheran" article from the Living Lutheran.
On April 14, Music Director Tim Spelbring will teach us the historical background for a Easter hymn.
On April 21, a "Good Neighbor" guest speaker, Paula Jo Belice, will tell us about her experience with hosting asylum seekers.
On April 28, Pastor Eric Schaefer will help us take a deeper look at the sermon.
Caregiver Support Group
Tuesday, April 2
12pm in the Great Room
Are you doing the important and challenging work of providing care to a loved one? Join our Caregiver Support Group meeting. Bring your own lunch.
For more information , contact the church office at 847-253-0631 or stmarkmp@stmarkmp.org
“Ladies Night Out...At The Movies”
Friday April 12, 2024
7:00 pm In The Great RoomShowing: “Royal Wedding” 1951
With Fred Astaire, Jane Powell,
& Peter Lawford
All women are invited for fellowship, fun and laughter while we relax and enjoy the movie. Sit back, enjoy the popcorn, and laugh or cry with friends.
Popcorn, appetizers, and beverages
provided. Come and Enjoy the Fellowship.
Contact: Kim Perlichat 847-253-4073
for more informationWinter Farmers Market
Starting in November, the Winter Farmers Market will be back at the Center on the second and fourth Saturdays of the month from 9am-12:30pm through April.
Final Market Dates:
April 13 & 27
Women's Bible Study
Deacon Pat Gerber leads us through this video study of Priscilla Shirer’s The Armor of God. We meet on the 3rd Monday of each month at 7pm in the Great Room, with our next session on Monday, April 15. Join us.
Men's Bible Study
The men’s bible study/discussion group meets now on the 3rd Monday of each month, with our next session on Monday, April 15 at 7:00 p.m. in the Library.
Quilting
Quilters (knotters) will meet at 9:30am on these upcoming dates in the Quilting room (second floor of the Education wing):
Wednesday, April 17 & Tuesday,
April 23
For more information, contact the Church Office 847-253-0631.
Senior Lunch Bunch
(or anyone else who would like to join us)
Thursday, April 18 at 1pm
Annie's Pancake House
1706 E. Kensington Rd., Mt. Prospect
RSVP to Marilyn by Monday, April 15
Bayou Bound Dinner
Dinner, Raffle & Silent Auction
benefitting 2024 ELCA Youth Gathering Participants
Saturday, April 20
5-8pm
St. Mark Center
Tickets on sale starting March 31
Social Justice Group
Sunday, April 21
3-4:15pm in the Great Room
Men's Game Night 2024
Saturday, April 26
6:30-11pm
St. Mark Center
Fair Trade Items on Sale
Sunday, April 28
following worship
Coffee, chocolate, olive oil, and more
Sundays @ The Center
Sunday, April 28
4-6pm
Spring Picnic
Join us for an evening of fun. Enjoy a bounce house, good food, a service project and the company of amazing people! You don't want to miss it!!
All ages welcome!
For more information or to RSVP by April 24, contact the church office at 847-253-0631 or stmarkmp@stmarkmp.org
Backpack Ministry
With food and monetary donations from our
congregation and the Mount Prospect Lions Club, St. Mark is supplying a backpack of healthy food to Mount Prospect school children every week. These are children who were identified by their school as at risk for hunger at home.You can support the ministry by making a
monetary or food donation. If you would like to help pack the backpacks, please email
Food List - please check expiration dates before donating
Single Serving Cereal Boxes
Oatmeal in Individual Packets
Raisins in Small Boxes
Peanut Butter
Jelly in squeeze bottles
Canned Spaghetti/Ravioli
Canned Beef Stew
Canned Chili
Soup in kid friendly flavors
Boxed 'helper' Meals
Canned Tuna/Tuna Salad kits
Vienna Sausages
Canned Chicken
Macaroni & Cheese
Noodle / Rice side dishes
Canned Fruit / Fruit Cups
Canned Vegetables
Juice Boxes
Pudding CupsGranola Bars
Cookies/Crackers/Trail Mix in Individual Packets*No Glass Containers or Microwavable items
Our Ministries
We have a place for you!
Adult Education
Learning for the enrichment of daily living, we participate in midweek Bible Study, Fall and Lenten Focus studies and special topic sessions.
Backpack Ministry
St. Mark, working with School District 57, provides a backpack of healthy food for children in need for over the weekend during the school year.
Congregational Care
Caring for the congregation takes many volunteers. Supporting members by sending cards, making calls, delivering flowers, participation on the prayer chain, and making shawls, in addition to providing rides to church or appointments.
Fair Trade Products
We sell Fair Trade Products from Equal Exchange, a worker-owned co-operative. Equal Exchange's mission is to foster mutually beneficial relationship between farmers and consumers by paying producers a guaranteed minimum price that provides a stable source of income as well as improved social services.
Typically, Fair Trade Products are sold on the 4th Sunday of each month.
Fellowship
Summer BBQs, Mardi Gras Potluck, Lenten Meals, outings and more! Come out and meet some new friends or reconnect with old ones.
Music Ministry
People of all ages and levels of experience participate in our music ministry. Come and share your talents: Vocal Choir, Handbell Choir, Youth Choir and Youth Bell Choir.
Nibblers
Enjoy food? Come and join the Nibblers as they find new places to eat around our community each month. Typically, Nibblers meets on the 1st Saturday of each month.
Outreach
Collecting food items for Mt. Prospect Emergency Food Pantry and the Lutheran Church of the Cross Food Pantry; participating in the Mt. Prospect 4th of July Parade, the Mt. Prospect Block Party, Feed My Starving Children, Crop Hunger Walk, and helping Refugee One with the relocation of refugee families.
PADS
(Public Access to Deliver Shelter)
St. Mark works in conjunction with Journeys|The Road Home and St. Raymond de Penafort Catholic Church to provide meals and shelter for the homeless on Monday nights at the St. Mark Center from October through April.
Property
Do you like to do small projects around the house or yard? The church has projects to do, too! Your special talents/knowledge could be helpful.
Quilting
St. Mark quilters meet twice monthly to put together quilts for Lutheran World Relief.
Senior Lunch Bunch
Meets monthly to get together with friends for a meal or outing.
Stewardship
Our Goal: to be wise stewards of the resources with which we have been blessed . If you have good financial sense and a heart for doing the work of the church, join us.
The King's Players
St. Mark Community Youth Theatre
As a partner with District 214 Community Education and based in Mt. Prospect, The King's Players is a youth theater group consisting of members from 6th through 12th grade, producing a musical every July. Auditions are usually at the end of April and rehearsals begin in May of each year.
Women of the ELCA
(WELCA)
St. Mark Women of the ELCA is our local unit of the churchwide women's organization. Activities range from educational to spiritual to social to charitable.
Worship
Serve as an acolyte, greeter, reader, cantor, lay minister, communion assistant, usher, audio-video technician, or serve on altar guild. There are many ways to participate.
Youth & Family Ministry
WOW! - Christian education for children 3 years old through 5th grade, meets weekly (4:30-6 pm)
on Wednesdays mid-September through May; FaithWalk - Confirmation program for 6th through 8th grade, meets on Thursday afternoons (4:30-6 pm) mid-September through May;
SHINE! -St. Mark's High School group, meets monthly for events, retreats and service;
VBS - Vacation Bible School, week-long summer program for children 3 years through 5th grade.
Holy Family Ministries
St. Mark partners with Holy Family ministries in their support of Holy Family School in the North Lawndale neighborhood of Chicago. This ministry helps support student tuitions, Saturday Morning Academy, Summer School, early morning math enrichment, and after-school homework help.
St. Mark/
St. Raymond Ecumenical Ministry
This lay-led group fosters and encourages the special relationship and shared ministries between St. Mark Lutheran Church and St. Raymond Catholic Church. This ministry celebrates our oneness in Christ through our shared Covenant signed in 1999 and renewed in 2010. Its goal is to build upon our long lasting relationship and continue to live our covenant.
St. Mark Foundation
The St. Mark foundation is most known by the educational gifts it awards to the students of the congregation, but the Foundation's philanthropy goes far beyond these educational gifts. Through gifts and member bequests, the Foundation awards grants to support many worthwhile religious and charitable organizations: an ELCA missionary, Journeys/The Road Home, Holy Family Ministries, and Concordia Place, just to name a few.
St. Mark Preschool & Enrichment Center
has been developing the confidence and self-esteem of our community's children for over 50 years, providing a welcoming, safe and encouraging environment. Preschool and Kindergarten Enrichment programs offered. See more on their website at: stmarkpreschoolcares.org
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200 South Wille Street
Mount Prospect, IL 60056Church Office Hours
Monday-Thursday 8:30 am-4:30 pm
Friday 8:30 am - 12 noon847-253-0631
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