 | St. Mark's United Methodist Church is a congregation of 450 members located in
the heart of Montclair, New Jersey. Our mission is to "serve as disciples of Jesus
Christ by inviting, embracing, nurturing, encouraging and involving all peoples of the
global community to know God, through Jesus Christ, and the power of the Holy Spirit.
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| St. Mark's is a church that is on the cutting edge of the past and the
future. We are a congregation to grow with in the 21st Century. Our history spans a
time of 120 years, dating back to 1880, yet we are experiencing a contemporary wave of
God's Spirit.
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| Since 1996 St. Mark's offers a Contemporary Worship Service, which meets weekly
on Sunday mornings at 8:15 a.m. This service includes a Live Band, Praise Singers,
and is evangelical in nature. Our weekly 10:45 a.m. Service offers a blended style
of worship, a mixture of traditional and contemporary. St. Mark's has a Prayer
Ministry on Tuesday evenings at 7:30p.m. Special emphasis on prayer and healing are
held throughout the year.
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| Our Children's and Youth ministries include Acolyte's Training and Service,
Children and Youth Bible Classes, Children and Youth Fellowship Programs, Children and
Youth Choirs, Liturgical Dancers, Tutorial Programs/Activities and Youth Service Projects.
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| Our Justice Ministries include Advocacy, Disaster Relief, Food Pantry, Angel
Tree Prison Ministry and a Welfare Fund.
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| Other ministries include Bible Classes for Adults, Local, National and Global
Missions, Marriage and Family Counseling, Men's Ministry and a Visitation Ministry.
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| From this congregation have come people who grow into becoming men and women of
strong faith. Ninety-five (95) percent of our youth go to college. Rev. Dr.
Ernest Lyght, Resident Bishop of the New York Annual Conference of the United Methodist
Church, is our former pastor.
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| More than 42,000 United Methodist local churches exist worldwide.
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| More than 4 million people participate in United Methodist Sunday schools.
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| United Methodists practice "open communion", which means no one can be
turned away from the Lord's Table.
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| Nearly 4,000 women pastors serve in The United Methodist Church. The Council of
Bishops includes nine women as active bishops and one retired. The first United
Methodist woman bishop, the late Marjorie Matthews of the Wisconsin Area, was elected in
1980.
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| The denomination is one of the most ethnically diverse mainline church, with
nearly 1 million people globally from African, Asian, Native or Indigenous, Hispanic and
Pacific Island heritages.
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| Pastors are not required to wear robes in The United Methodist Church, although
many do.
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| Official liturgies of the church are found in the The United Methodist Hymnal
(and their Spanish and Korean counterparts) and the Book of Worship. |
