Saint Marks Lutheran Church
Saint Marks Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 1008 Franklin Rd, VA, 24016 in Roanoke, VA 24016. It is one of 351 churches in Roanoke, and one of 7 Lutheran congregations in the city.
As part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, St. Mark’s seeks to proclaim and live out the love of God that is revealed in Jesus Christ.
St. Mark's Lutheran Church was founded in 1869, built in 1873 and has been at its present location on Franklin Road since 1953. We worship and learn together, focusing on the transforming power of God in Jesus Christ. The members are hardworking and friendly.
Serving since 1869 · Services in Spanish and Haitian Creole
1008 Franklin Rd, VA, 24016, Roanoke, VA, 24016Service times
- Friday 10am
Phone: (540) 344-9051 · Website: http://www.stmarksroanoke.org/
Saint Marks Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 227 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Virginia — 15,905 across the United States on The Church Map.
Lutherans put the gospel back into ordinary hands — Scripture in the language people actually spoke, and hymns the congregation itself was allowed to sing. That the church is saved by grace through faith, and that the whole assembly sings, are now the inheritance of nearly every Protestant church in America.
Ministries at Saint Marks Lutheran Church
- Food pantry
- Clothes closet
- Habitat for Humanity
- Volunteer at RAM House
- Rescue Mission
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The community around Saint Marks Lutheran Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. Nearly a quarter of the people here live below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults live with obesity. That is two thousand neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 35.4%
- Poverty Rate: 28.6% (16.5–40.7%)
- Obesity: 39.7%
- Depression: 26.3%
- Food Insecurity: 15.6%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Roanoke city is served by 141 churches — about one congregation for every 703 residents.
Churches near Saint Marks Lutheran Church
- Christ Episcopal Church — 0.1 mi away
- Congregational Holiness Church — 0.1 mi away
- Second Presbyterian Church — 0.1 mi away
- Trinity United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Grace Fellowship — 0.1 mi away
- Elevation Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Pauls Evangelical and Reformed Church — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Johns Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Roanoke Quakers — 0.3 mi away
More Lutheran churches nearby
- Christ Lutheran Church — 2.1 mi away
- Emmanuel Lutheran Church — 2.7 mi away
- Trinity Lutheran Church — 3.1 mi away
- Saint Johns Church — 4.8 mi away
- St John Lutheran Church — 4.8 mi away