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
“We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about those who have died, so that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. The Lord himself, with a cry of command, with the archangel's call and with the sound of God's trumpet, will descend from heaven, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up in the clouds together with them to meet the Lord in the air; and so we will be with the Lord forever. Therefore encourage one another with these words.” 1 Thessalonians (NRSV)
It's been a week, y'all. Whatever Tuesday stirred in you, whether relief, grief, worry, or plain exhaustion, you're carrying it into Sunday, and you aren't carrying it alone. The earliest Christians knew that feeling, too. This old letter from the New Testament is to a small, frightened church in Thessalonica that was grieving its dead and wondering whether God's promises still held for them. As we, as a parish, walk through some of our own pain and grief on that front, too, I feel like this is hitting at a good time.
Paul doesn't tell them to stop grieving. Instead, he tells them they don't have to grieve "as others do who have no hope." Then, he paints Christ's coming with the trumpets and fanfare Rome saved for the emperor, in a city where coins promised a "peace and security" built on something much more sinister. It's a gentle, pointed reminder about where our hope actually lives. And Jesus, in the parable of the ten bridesmaids, adds a word about readiness: all ten fall asleep, but five brought enough oil to last the night.
This Sunday we'll ask what it means to go out to meet Christ with our lamps lit. As The Rev. Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas puts it, "hope is always an active thing, as the resurrection is an active thing." Come to grieve, come to hope, come to get ready together. And as Paul says, "encourage one another with these words."
May Peace live in your heart,
Rev. Kyle
Meet The Team
The Rev. Kyle Martindale
Rector
Chrissy Fontanilla
Parish Administrator
Anthony Rispo
Organist & Music Director
Misael Enamorado
Sexton
Alex Antes
Senior Warden
Jody Sherman
Junior Warden
Jennifer Barlow
Bookkeeper
Amanda Allen
Treasurer