Saint Mark United Methodist Church
Saint Mark United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 8437-8457 South Saint Lawrence Avenue in Chicago, IL 60619. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 50 Methodist congregations in the city.
As a United Methodist Church we are proud to be a congregation with open hearts, open minds, and open doors. We strive to be an assembly that embodies God’s absolute love and hospitality. We believe that all persons are part of God’s good creation and therefore are of sacred worth and dignity. Most of all, Saint Mark United Methodist Church welcomes every race, culture, family, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, socioeconomic status, faith history, and physical/mental ability, into the full life and ministry of our church.
8437-8457 South Saint Lawrence Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60619Service times
Sunday, August 16 • One Worship Service • 10:00 a.m; Sunday at 10:00 a.m; Sunday, September 6, 2026 – Labor Day SundayOne service at 10AM (as listed)
Saint Mark United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,033 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Illinois — 25,985 across the United States on The Church Map.
Methodism gave the church the class meeting, the circuit rider, and the Sunday school, and gave America the conviction that grace is genuinely for everyone — carried into prisons, mines, and mill towns by preachers who owned almost nothing. Charles Wesley's hymns are still sung in nearly every tradition, most of them by people who have no idea whose they are.
Ministries at Saint Mark United Methodist Church
- Children's Ministry
- Music & Fine Arts
- Prayer Ministry
- Social Justice
- Sunday School
- Young Adult Ministry
- Youth Ministry
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Latest from Saint Mark UMC of Atlanta's YouTube channel: Online Worship Service - 17th Sunday after Pentecost (all videos).
The community around Saint Mark United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. That is 2,400 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Food Insecurity: 27.0%
- Diabetes: 19.4%
- Unemployment: 13.4% (5.8–21.0%)
- Obesity: 40.4%
- Social Isolation: 36.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.6%
- Housing Insecurity: 22.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.1%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.8%
- Poverty Rate: 21.3% (14.5–28.1%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Chicago city is served by 1,693 churches — about one congregation for every 1,580 residents.
Churches near Saint Mark United Methodist Church
- Redemption Presbyterian Church of Ghana — 0.2 mi away
- Chatham-Bethlehem United Presbyterian Church — 0.2 mi away
- United Praise Ministries — 0.2 mi away
- Mountain Of Fire and Miracles Ministries — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Stephen's Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Harvey Memorial Community Church — 0.3 mi away
- Come and See Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Clotilde's Roman Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- St Mark Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Chatham Fields Lutheran Church — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- Vincent United Methodist Church — 0.9 mi away
- Carter Temple Christian Methodist Episcopal Church — 1 mi away
- Greater Institutional AME Church — 1 mi away
- Israel Methodist Community Church — 1.1 mi away
- Black Methodist for Church Renewal — 1.1 mi away