St. Mark Lutheran Church (ELCA)
200 South Wille Street, Mount Prospect, Illinois 60056
Phone: 847-253-0631
Fax: 847-253-5387
Email: stmarkmp@stmarkmp.org
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
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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
WOW & FaithWalk
Children's Christian Education Programs
(September - May)
Contact Deacon David for information on these programs.
FaithWalk - (Confirmation Program for 6th-8th grade) meets weekly on Mondays
4:30 - 6:00 pm (in person).
Bible Study
Wednesday Bible Study at Noon.
REVELATION BIBLE STUDY Join us Wednesdays at noon in May and June as we explore the last book of the Bible. Controversial, hard to understand, often fear-inducing, Revelation is also full of wonderful things to LEARN (one of the practices of the Way of Love). We are using a book study written by Barbara Rossing, a professor of Pastor Christie’s in seminary. The books are available for purchase for $8, or simply come to the study. Bring your own lunch! Can’t make it in person? Join us over the lunch hour wherever you are on Zoom - contact
Questions? Contact Pastor Christie.
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 for Advent:
May 22Book Club
We meet to discuss the selected book on the 4th Monday of each month at 1:00 PM in the Great Room. If you'd like to be part of the group, please join us! All are welcome! Contact Nancy Snell for more information (847-431-9116 or 604snell@gmail.com).
2022 BOOK SELECTIONS
May 23 - Us Against You by Frederick Backman
June 27- All Adults Here by Emma Straub
July 25 - Leave the Gun and Take the Cannoli by Mark Seal
August 22 - The Elephant Company by Vicki Croke
September 26 - The Growing Season by Sarah Frey
October 24 - The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict & Victoria Christopher
Quilting
Quilters (knotters) will meet at 9:00am on the following dates in the Quilting room, (second floor of the Education wing):
Tuesday, May 24
Wednesday, June 15
Tuesday, June 21
Walk the Gym
Thursdays at 10am through May 26
Come walk the St. Mark gym! Thursdays from 10am to noon. Bring your friends and get your steps in away from the elements!
Summer BBQs Are Back
Lunch will be served once a month following worship. Join us on June 12 to start the summer off right. A free will offering will be collected to help cover expenses. Come by for food, fun and fellowship!
Anyone interested in assisting with the BBQs or providing a salad or dessert for any of these BBQs, please contact Kim Perlich at kim.perlich@gmail.com
Future BBQ dates: July 3 & August 7
PADS UPDATE
Many thanks to all for your support of the
St. Mark PADS food program. For two years, we have been supporting for our neighbors who have been and continue to be sheltered in the hotel program during the pandemic. Through the kindness of your donations, we were able to provide food for some families to prepare their own breakfast and lunches each week. We also supplied a hot dinner each week to about 40 people. Your generosity has allowed us to provide approximately 17,000 meals to these friends.
We will be pausing this program for the summer months. During this time, we will be working with Journeys and the church council to determine how we will support the PADS program during the 2022-2023 season.
Thank you again for following our call to Love Our Neighbors.
St. Mark Preschool & Enrichment Center
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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