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
Offerings & Donations
Use PayPal for Offerings or Donations by clicking on the button below.
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) is currently not meeting.
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:
Sept 17 - 16th Sunday after Pentecost
Sept 24 - 17th Sunday after Pentecost
Oct 1 - 18th Sunday after Pentecost
Oct 8 - 19th Sunday after Pentecost
Book Club
We meet to discuss the selected book on the 4th Monday of each month at 1:00 PM in the Great Room (February & March in the Library). If you'd like to be part of the group, please join us! All are welcome! Contact Nancy Snell for more information or contact the Church Office at 847-253-0631.
2023 BOOK SELECTIONS
October 23 - An Elephant in My Kitchen by Francoise Malby-Anthony
November 27 -Anxious People by Fredrick Backman
December - No discussion
Adult Education
On Sunday, October 1, there will be NO Adult Education Forum. On Sunday, October 8, “Good Neighbors” from Mt. Prospect Human Services will join us to discuss services offered by the village. Growth in knowledge and understanding enables us to grow in our Christian faith and life.
BUNCO FOR BREAST CANCER
Caregiver Support Group
Are you doing the important and challenging work of providing care for a loved one? Are you looking for mutual support in the midst
of that? Join our Caregiver Support Group meeting Tuesday, October 3 atnoon in the Great Room. Bring your own lunch. Questions? Contact the
church office.
Adult Education:
Good Neighbor Sunday
Please join us on Sunday, October 8th at 11:00am to meet staff from the Village of Mount Prospect’s Human Services Department. The Village’s Senior Services Social Worker and Public Health Nurse will discuss resources and services offered to Mount Prospect residents. The Department is committed to the health and well-being of the senior population. The Human Services
Department offers a wide variety of services that address both Public Health and Social Service needs. These services can be accessed at Village Hall and the Community Connections Center. This is a great opportunity to learn about resources available that may be of assistance to you or a loved one—now or in
the future!”
Social Justice
3-4:15 pm in the Great Room
The Social Justice Group will meet on Sunday, October 8. We will take up the threefold program of education, moral deliberation and advocacy. All are welcome. Questions? please contact
Les Weber l-jweber@sbcglobal.net
B(older)U Is Back!
Starting atthe end of September, B(older) U will be back. Here is a list of activities
that are currently scheduled:
Exercise
Now – November 2, the Rush Occupational Therapy students will be back leading the Exercise Group. This group will be on Thursdays from 10-11 am. The students will be focusing on balance and core strengthening.
Movies
Movies will be resuming on the 4th Thursday of the month at 1:00. The current movies scheduled are:
October 26: Get ready for Halloween with Arsenic and Old Lace starring Cary Grant, Peter Lorre, and Raymond Massey
Lunch and Learn
Lunch and Learn will meet on the 2nd Thursday of each month at 11:30 am .
October 12 Lunch & Learn
Topic: Making your home safe & accessible.
Northwest Housing Partnership will be presenting simple ways to increase your safety and independence and resourses on handyman & rehab programs for folks 55 years of age +.
RSVP to the church office at 847-253-0631 by October 9. Suggested donation is $10 to cover the cost of lunch.
If there is a topic for the lunch and learn or movie you would like to suggest, please
contact Linda Olson at lolsonotr@gmail.com
All B(older) U activities take place at
The Center in the Assembly Room.
ST. MARK
CELEBRATION EVENT
Quilting
Women's Bible Study
Men's Bible Study
October Nibbers
October Nibblers celebrate Oktoberfest
Saturday, October 28
6:30pm at Schnell's Brauhaus
45 W. Slade St.
Palatine, IL
Please RSVP to Kim Perlich or the church office
Limited Seating
PADS UPDATE
St Mark will be reopening as a PADS shelter site beginning Monday October 2. This will mark 35 years of St Mark and our church and community partners providing this support to our homeless neighbors. This is an important part of our mission to show love and compassion to others.
We are currently reaching out to our past volunteers to seek their help for the coming season.
If you have not volunteered in the past but are interested in helping this year, please contact Mike Mokate – 847-846-6576 or mike.mokate56@gmail.com.
We are especially in need of help for these areas:
Second shift (10:45pm Monday – 3:00am Tuesday) – working with a partner, you welcome any guests who are arriving late in the evening, help guests with any support that they need during the night and make the bag lunches which are distributed to the guests in the morning.
Third shift (2:45am – 7:00 Tuesday) – working with a partner, you awaken the guests at the times they have requested, prepare and serve a simple breakfast and assist in closing the site by 7:00am.
On the 4th Monday of each month, members of St Mark work together to provide the evening meal. Each donor will be asked to prepare a recipe to contribute to the dinner meal or donate milk, juice, dessert, or other items needed for the meal. Members of other churches and community groups provide the dinner meal for the other weeks of each month.
If you can assist our efforts in one of these ways, your help would be greatly appreciated.
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 Cups
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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