
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 Worship on Sunday mornings at 10am.
In-person at 200 S. Wille Street, Mount Prospect
Past Sunday Worship Services are posted to St. Mark's YouTube channel.
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Announcements & Events
Informational Meeting for the Congregation
Sunday, September 7, 2025
immediately following the 10am worship service
The Church Council Executive Committee has scheduled an information meeting for the congregation on Sunday, September 7 to share details and answer questions regarding the potential sale of property.
Information about the sale offer is available in the Narthex to assist members in preparing questions.
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.
FaithWalk
Children's Christian Education Programs
(September - May)
Contact the Church Office for information on this program.
FaithWalk - Confirmation Program for 6th-8th grade is a collaberation between St. Mark Lutheran Church, Grace Lutheran Church and Trinity Lutheran Church. The class meets on Mondays from 4:30pm-6pm.
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:
September 7 - 8th Sunday after Pentecost
September 14 - 9th Sunday after Pentecost
September 21 - 10th Sunday after Pentecost
September 28 - 11th Sunday after Pentecost
Adult Education
“We believe” — Re-claiming the Nicene Creed for Today
What would you say if someone asked you, “So, what do you believe as a Christian?” A refreshed understanding of what Christians believe is vital as we anticipatea new pastor, as we seek to share the gospel with the unchurched in our community, and as we face the headwinds of growing secularity.
Beginning September 21 and continuing through October 12, the fall Adult Forums will celebrate the seventeen - hundredth anniversary of the first Christian creed, the Nicene Creed, by studying and discussing what it means. To understand how and why this creed originated is to gain a perspective on issues that were vital to Christians in the church’s early centuries. One critical question was the person and workof Jesus Christ. Who was Jesus for fourth century Christians? What did he mean for their life together? What do you believe? What do we believe?
In a day and age when growing numbers seem disenchanted with the institution of the church and local congregations struggle to exist, through a study of the Nicene Creed we gain confidence
that the church of Christ will “keep on rising from the dead.” (ELW 729)Help St.Mark Refugee Support Campaign Exceed Goal
In June, the Social Justice Group launched a campaign to help Global Refuge (globalrefuge.org), the Lutheran
immigrant and refugee resettlement agency, meet its commitment to resettle legally welcomed refugees after government support was halted in January. In business for over 85 years, Global Refugeis the largest faith-based national nonprofit exclusively dedicated to helping restore a sense of home to immigrants and refugees.As of the end of July, St. Mark Refugee Support has achieved its goal of $600. Now an anonymous donor has pledged to match dollar-for-dollar all subsequent gifts to St. Mark Refugee Support until “God’s Work. Our Hands” Sunday, September 14. Gifts of any size—$5,$10, $25, etc.— from members, relatives, friends, and people from the community are welcome.
B(older) U
September Lunch & Learn
Thursday, September 11
11:30 am – 1:00 pm
Join us Thursday, September 11 for lunch and a presentation by Celina McIntyre, organizational specialist and Founder/CEO of Staged to Inspire on Medical Organization. This presentation will identify the Importance of Medical Organization and how to create a well-organized medical system.
Celina will present decluttering tips, medication storage solutions, and how to create a medical binder to organize medical records. She will also introduce some technology solutions to medical organization. There will be time for questions at the end.
Suggested donation $10.00 to cover the cost of lunch. Registration required. Please RSVP to stmarkmp@stmarkmp.org or 847-253-0631 by Tuesday, September 9.
Exercise returns
Thursday, September 25!
We meet every Thursday morning from 10:00-11:00 at the Center. We focus on exercising all parts of the body to increase strength, endurance, and balance so you can physically continue to do activities that are important to you. For the first six-weeks, Rush University Occupational Therapy students will be leading the class. Everyone is encouraged to come and check out the class. Friends are welcome.
"God's Work. Our Hands."
Sunday, September 14, 2025
The congregation is invited to assist in assembling school kits with WELCA.
Social Justice Committee will be collecting donations.
If your group has a project where many hands could make the work easier, contact Pastor Eric or the Church office.
Recycle Styrofoam on “God’s Work. Our Hands” Sunday
The Social Justice Group invites members to bring Styrofoam (trademarked brand of polystyrene) to St. Mark for “God’s Work. Our Hands” Sunday, September 14. Styrofoam may be brought on Sundays, August 31, September 7, and September 14. Please bring in a paper or plastic bag (these will be recycled after use) and place along west wall of the Great Room.
Why recycle Styrofoam? Composted vegetables take perhaps a month to decompose, paper five months or less, aluminum cans biodegrade in around 100 years, but Styrofoam lasts 500 years or more.
The purpose of collecting Styrofoam on this particular Sunday is threefold: to help us see that recycling is one way we participate in God’s work of preserving the creation; to become aware via a display outside the Great Room on September 14 of a service that the Village of Mt. Prospect provides at Public Works; and to educate ourselves on the Styrofoam products that the village accepts.
On these Sundays, bring Styrofoam
1. Packaging for TVs, appliances, computers, or furniture;
2. Foam coolers
3. Food containers such as egg cartons, trays, takeout clamshells, cups, plates—of any color.
Do not bring:
1. Foam peanuts or foam noodles.
What you bring should be clean, dry and free of labels and tape.
Senior Lunch Bunch (and anyone who would like to join us)
Thursday, September 18, 2025 at 1:00pm
Come and join us for lunch at
CLUB CASA
353 N. River Road, Des Plaines, IL
Order off the menu. RSVP to Marilyn Gosell by September 15, 2025.
Hymns, Hops, and Pops
Friday, September 19 at 7 pm
in the Great Room.
Join us as we sing along with Music Director Tim Spelbring to our favorite hymns while enjoying a beverage or two and snacks. Bring a friend!
Book Club
The St. Mark Book Club welcomes all readers of all ages. 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.
St. Mark Book Club 2025 Reading List
September 22 - When Crickets Cry
by Mikki Brammer
October 27 - The Magic Hour by Kristin HannahNovember 24 - Speak To Me Of Home by Jeanine Cummins
2025 Church Directory Available for Pick-up
Copies available in the Narthex
BUNCO FOR BREAST CANCER
Sunday, October 5, 2025
at the St. Mark Center
Tickets now on sale Sundays in the NarthexDoors open at Noon –
Bunco begins at 1pm
$25 per ticket thru September 15;
$30 per ticket after that
Make checks payable to BCRF (Breast Cancer Research Foundation)
Must be 18 years old to playContact Janice Serafini for more information
Social Justice Group
The next meeting of the Social Justice Groupwill be Sunday, October 12, at 3 p.m
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.
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
FaithWalk - Confirmation program for 6th through 8th grade, meets mid-September through May.
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 65 years, providing a welcoming, safe and encouraging environment. Preschool and Kindergarten Enrichment programs offered. See more on their website at: stmarkpreschoolcares.org
Contact Us
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200 South Wille Street
Mount Prospect, IL 60056Church Office Hours
Tuesday-Thursday 10:00 am-2:00 pm847-253-0631
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