St Mark United Methodist Church — We're here to worship God, and we're here for you. We want you to come to St Mark because God has a special home here in our family. We want you to share that with us.

St Mark has a blended style of worship: We sing contemporary praise songs and traditional hymns. We enjoy each other's company, and we reach out to our community. We worship God, share the good news of Jesus Christ, and allow the Holy Spirit to guide us and heal us.

Description:
Outreach :: Serving the Community and the World

For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me. Matthew 25:35-36

Foreign Mission Support

St. Mark is supporting five missionaries/missionary couples in Chile, Congo, Nepal, and Russia. Since we are in a Covenant Relationship with these missionaries we will have visits from them every 3 years.

Volunteers in Mission

Local: St. Mark sends work teams to help disaster relief and other humanitarian efforts in the Southern California area. One of these is the Habitat for Humanity program.

International: St. Mark has sent work teams in recent years to Chile and Mexico.

Transition House

Volunteers prepare and serve food the 3rd Thursday even-numbered months at our community's local homeless shelter called Transition House.

Scholarship Program for Preschool and Transition House Child

A one-year scholarship is provided to a child in the Transition House program to attend our own St. Mark Preschool

History:
John Wesley was a British Anglican priest and the founder of Methodism. He was born on June 17, 1703, in the rectory at Epworth, England, the 15th of 19 children born to Samuel and Susannah Wesley. His father was an Anglican priest. His mother was a Puritan, notable for her learning and dedication to the education of her children. Both John and his brother Charles, with whom much of his life would be intertwined, attended Oxford University.

While at Oxford, Wesley took over the leadership of an informal student organization originally called together by his brother and dubbed the "Holy Club" by fellow students. After graduation, both he and Charles went to colonial Georgia as their first assignment in the ministry. On the voyage to America, Wesley had his first encounter with members of the Moravian Church, who pressed him on his personal religious life. That encounter bore fruit upon Wesley's return to England where he encountered other Moravians and attended informal services at several lay-led religious societies in London. At one such society meeting on Aldersgate Street on May 24, 1738, he had what he termed a "heart-warming experience" that is generally seen as the founding event of the Methodist movement. The movement took shape after the break with the Moravians the following year, and the first "Methodist" religious societies began to form. Within each society, members were invited into smaller intimate groups called classes.

Contact person: Anna Mcklin, Program Coordinator, (phone), (email)

Address:

3942 La Colina Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93110 (See a map)

Web Site: http://www.stmarkumcsb.org

Directions:

Take the State St exit toward CA-154/Cachuma Lake from US-101. Turn right into State Street. Turn left onto North La Cumbre Road. Turn left onto La Colina Road and end at 3942 La Colina Road.   Nearest Bus Stop: