Welcome to the 2024-2025 Program year at Saint Mark's!
Saint Mark’s continues to respond to the gracious pull to becoming Beloved Community. Last year, we explored together, “what does the Lord ask of us?” and found answers in Micah 6: 8: “To act justly, to love tenderly, and to walk humbly with our God.” Now, we take another step, standing humbly but firmly on our Baptismal vows.
In The Call to Serve program, we seek to create authentic relationships in beloved community both within Saint Mark’s and in our neighborhood with special concern for those marginalized on the basis of ethnicity, class, race, and gender identity.
As followers of Jesus, we are called to create abundant life in beloved community with each other and with our neighbors.
In Fall 2024, we called Saint Markans to "Share our Abundance" by helping to feed our hungry neighbors at First Nations Kitchen, Groveland Food Shelf, and (Second) Sunday Night Supper. This loving service will continue!
Beginning February 2025, we add active allyship with non-profits dedicated to providing housing with dignity and wrap-around services to our neighbors with insecure and unsafe shelter. These include:
- AGATE. Combining House of Charity and St. Stephen's Services, AGATE provides a continuum of services meeting the needs of those facing housing instability where they are. Learn more here.
- ALIGN (Formerly The Downtown Congregations to End Homelessness) Animated by a vision of everyone having access to safe, decent, stable, and affordable housing in Minneapolis. Saint Mark's is a member congregation. Learn more here.
- GREAT RIVER LANDING (Beacon Interfaith Housing Collaborative and 180degrees) Providing 72 studio apartments for men, primarily African American fathers, who have recently exited incarceration and experienced homelessness along with wrap-around social services for their transition. Learn more here.
The Call to Serve dedicates us to deepening our common life by
- Openness to inspired preaching, challenging teaching, and common prayer at Sunday worship and Evening Prayer;
- Seeing and hearing and supporting each other in small group “Connecting Circles” and at Round Table, where we share our experiences and explore our gifts as servant disciples;
- Partnering with others in serving our neighbors in need, with particular emphasis on hunger (fall) and shelter (spring).
See below for all of our upcoming events for this program year.
Upcoming Events
Sorry, we have now ended our program year so there are no more events planned.
