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
“Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law… You know what time it is, how it is now the moment for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we became believers; the night is far gone, the day is near.” [Romans 13-NRSV]
This Sunday, Paul hands us a ledger. He tells the church in Rome to owe no one anything, which sounds like sensible financial advice right up until he leaves one account open forever: “except to love one another.” One debt that can never be paid off, only paid on. And then he makes the claim his whole sermon rests on, that the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. Not skipped it, but fulfilled it. Every commandment God ever gave was reaching for this the whole time.
Then Paul does something that should wake us up, which is exactly the point. “You know what time it is,” he says, “how it is now the moment for you to wake from sleep.” Long before it became a word people argue about, staying awake was survival language, and it is older than any of our current fights. It's apostolic and Jesus tells us what it actually looks like on the ground, in a passage about a fight inside the church, ending with a promise we have badly domesticated, “where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there among them.”
Come find out why that promise belongs at the end of an argument and not on a coffee mug. We'll sit with Paul in the gray hour before dawn, when the night is far gone and the day is not up yet, and ask what it means to get dressed for a light we can't see yet. Maybe even bring somebody with you. Two or three is all it takes.
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