475 Fruitridge Avenue, Terre Haute, Indiana 812-232-8000
Worship Time is 9:45 AM every Sunday
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How We Serve
St. Mark United Church of Christ answers God’s call for a just world for all in a number of ways. In addition to our budgeted mission support funded by the regular weekly gifts from members we also highlight and support a special mission project every month. These are geared to responding to local, national, and world needs and key issues facing our world today.
Our Local Ministries Include:
- Faith Education, Innovation and Formation
- Ministerial Excellence
- Worship Fellowship
- Community Service
- Exploring joint actions of love and witness with Trinity Lutheran church and other faith communities here in Terre Haute
We acknowledge that Christ calls us to engage in loving faithful action.
Through our regular and special mission giving we support the United Church of Christ’s work to build a stronger faith-based movement for peace, justice, equality and inclusivity. Our work is rooted in the teachings of scripture and the policies of our General Synod.
Our support of racial justice encourages bold and courageous conversations that can empower us to actions that reflect our unique individual understandings of how Jesus calls us to respond to racist systems and structures. We seek to follow Jesus' lead at seeing all people as children of God and worthy of love, respect, and justice.
Our support for environmental justice encourages everyone to find ways to honor and cherish God's creation and the world in which we live. We can all do our part in some way to make our world a better place for future generations.
Our support for economic justice is grounded in our biblical understandings of fairness to all God's people. We support actions that provide a living wage, healthy working conditions, and a fair share of the resources that God provides for us all.
Our support of health and wholeness ministries provide social services and help advocate for the emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual needs of all people, children, the aging, the sick, and the developmentally disabled.
Our support for our wider church ministries includes our local Wabash Valley Association of UCC churches, our Indiana/Kentucky UCC Conference of churches, and our national expression of the United Church of Christ that supports ministries around our world and in our nation.
Our 5 for 5 Special Offerings
Neighbors in Need (NIN) is a special mission offering of the United Church of Christ that supports ministries of justice and compassion in the United States.
One Great Hour of Sharing® is one of four special mission offerings of the United Church of Christ. This Lenten Offering supports the disaster, refugee, and development ministries of the United Church of Christ within Love of Neighbor.
The Strengthen the Church (STC) Offering reflects the shared commitment of people across the United Church of Christ to cooperatively build up the UCC. Conferences and the national setting equally share the gifts given by members and friends through their local congregations. The funds raised support leadership development, new churches, youth ministry, and innovation in existing congregations.
The Christmas Fund has been caring for active and retired clergy and lay employees of the United Church of Christ for over 100 years, providing emergency grants, supplementation of small annuities and health premiums, and Christmas “Thank You” gift checks each December to our lower-income retirees.
In isolation, no single congregation can completely answer God’s call to love. Together we are a bold witness to God’s extravagant love for all. We share resources to transform our vision into reality. Gifts from congregations like ours to OCWM Basic Support make it possible for our Conferences and the National Ministries to strengthen local churches and leaders and engage us in mission well beyond our community.
Most of our OCWM Basic Support dollars remain in our Conferences to help local congregations thrive. Direct support in Conferences comes through leadership Initiatives like communities of practice, committees on the ministry, and one-on-one mentoring. Conferences also share in congregational vitality work. This includes conflict transformation, resourcing leaders as they reimagine ministry, and grants to churches.
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