St. Marks Lutheran Church 3976 Hendricks Ave, Jacksonville, Florida

Upcoming events:

Lenten schedule

Wed Feb 29—Mar 28, 10:30am Bible study

Wed Feb 29—Mar, 28 6:15pm Evening worship

Sat Mar 17, 9:00am Women's Lenten retreat

Sun Mar 18 7:00pm San Marco Chamber Society concert (Free and open to the public)

Fri Mar 30, 7:00pm Living Stations of the Cross

Holy Week April 1 - 7

Thur Apr 5, 7:00pm Maundy Thursday service

Fri Apr 6, 12noon & 7:00pm Good Friday services

Sat Apr 7, 7:00pm Easter Vigil

Sun Apr 8, 8:30 & 11:00am
Easter Festival worship

See our calendar page for more events and details

Worship with us

Sunday morning at 8:30am and 11:00am Education hour at 9:45am. We celebrate the Lord's Supper at each worship service.

Saturday evening: 1st & 3rd Saturdays of each month at 5:30pm. The service is casual and contemporary. We celebrate the Lord's Supper at each service.

Welcome!

On behalf of St. Mark's members and staff, welcome to our website. We hope you find just the information you need.

If you have any questions, or don't find what you're looking for, please call us (M-F) at (904) 396-9608.

Peace,

Pastor Tom Hanson
Senior Pastor


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You're always home at St. Mark's

St. Mark's is an urban, renewing, and welcoming Lutheran (ELCA) congregation in the San Marco neighborhood of Jacksonville, Florida. We are known for our social outreach and our attention to liturgical worship and music. We are located on Hendricks Avenue, three blocks south of Emerson St. and less than one mile north of University Blvd. West.

Church office phone: (904) 396-9608
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Free chamber music concert

The San Marco Chamber Music Society The next concert is Sunday, March 18, 2012 at 7:00pm here at St. Mark's. The free and open concert features Mozart's "Divertimento for Violin, Viola and Cello in E flat major" (K 563). Rumor has it that Mozart himself will be here!

The San Marco Chamber Music Society has its home at St. Mark's Lutheran Church. Each year, SMCMS offers four concerts of chamber music with performances by some of the area's finest professional musicians. Concerts are performed in the intimate and acoustically excellent nave of the church.

This is how chamber music was meant to be heard. Join us for a delightful evening.

Lutheran = Faith active in love

Where I come from, Minnesota, Lutherans are very dense and most people there have an idea of what a Lutheran is. Not so much here in Jacksonville.

Long story short: Lutherans don't spend a lot of time fussing about our own salvation or whether we have "accepted Jesus into our hearts." We live knowing that by God's grace we are already saved through our baptism into Christ. If you don't believe it, check out Ephesians 2:8-10 (new window).

"Faith active in love" is the best definition for "Lutheran" that I know. It means that we believe that God is a God of love not law. The world is tough enough without imposing more rules and regulations on people. Jesus Christ has already accomplished our salvation. Our faith leads us to love our neighbors.
It's all about God's work. Our hands.

Pastor Thomas S. Hanson
Senior Pastor
(See my St. Mark's EvangeLion page.)

The Messenger (monthly newsletter)

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Privacy policy

Member contact information (telephone number or email address) is only provided to other active members of St. Mark's Lutheran Church. We do not distribute our congregation directory. If you are not a member and want to contact one of our members, call the church office at (904) 396-9608. We will pass on your message together with your email address or telephone number to our member who may then choose to contact you. Staff contact information is provided on the Contact us page.

page created: 17 JUN 2011
page updated: 14 MAR 2012
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