Who we are
Mission Statement: St. Mark's is a welcoming, caring, affirming and inclusive community. We come together to worship Jesus Christ whose loving example and teachings call us to love God and our neighbors without exception and to serve our communities wherever there is need.
We are a diverse and active parish, located in the heart of downtown Mt. Kisco, drawing our congregation from across Northern Westchester. We invite you to learn more about us here and we hope that you will visit us in person as well.
We seek to serve all persons who may have unanswered spiritual needs; religious questions; major life events; a hunger for a fresh sense of community; or who want to learn more about God, Jesus, the Church, or a Life of Faith. We recognize that the spiritual life is a unique journey for each person. It would be a privilege to have you come and journey with us.
Our weekly Sunday service is a 9:30 am celebration of the Holy Eucharist in the form of Rite II, which uses contemporary language, for most Sundays, and the more Traditional, Rite I, service on a Sunday during each season. We also have a service on Thursday mornings at 9:00 am followed by our Bible/Book Study.
9:30 am Eucharistic Service
85 East Main Street
Mt. Kisco, NY 10549
This Week's E-Blast Message from the Rector
“So the woman took the child and nursed it. When the child grew up, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and she took him as her son. She named him Moses, ‘because,’ she said, ‘I drew him out of the water.’”
[Exodus 2-NRSV]
A princess of Egypt walks down to a river her father has turned into a graveyard, and she reaches in, and she pulls out a baby, and she gives him a name. Thirteen centuries later, on foreign ground under a cliff carved full of other people's gods, Jesus turns to his friends and asks the question that splits every life in two: "But who do you say that I am?"
This Sunday we are going to stand right between those two moments and ask what they have to do with us. Because we don't name ourselves first. We are named, by the people who loved us and by the people who did not, and most of us spend years sorting out which of those names to keep. Moses was a Hebrew child, an Egyptian son, and a boy with two mothers before he could walk. Peter was a loud fisherman who got it wrong out loud for years and then got it exactly right. Neither of them chose the name that saved them.
Expect five brave women, a rocket that lands in a Kansas field, and a word from Archbishop Desmond Tutu that will not leave you alone: a person is a person through other persons. Come find out why the glasses were never the disguise, and why the water still gets the last word.
May Peace live in your heart,
Rev. Kyle