The PCC’s Vision for St Mark’s
We are currently working to develop a written statement. We believe that the Lord is calling us to worship more deeply and to minister in the powerful presence of the Holy Spirit.
The present challenges are:
- to deepen our prayer life as a church.
- to have a more consistent style of contemporary worship at all our services.
- to grow many more small groups for fellowship, support and pastoral care.
- to welcome more students and to support their witness on campus.
- to discover how we can ‘love Gillingham’ more and serve the community.
- to support as best we can the ministry of children and youth with our team of volunteers - praying that some time soon we could once again employ a youth pastor to lead the volunteer team.
- to continue to have close relations with our partner churches in Gillingham and to pray for their work.
- to work with our Deanery (the local Anglican group of parishes), particularly in north Gillingham, in establishing a Deanery Pioneer Ministry to reach those that traditional church does not reach.
St Mary’s Island Church
Meets each Sunday at 11:00am in the St Mary’s Island School Hall. This is an ecumenical partnership between three Christian denominations and we welcome people of all denominations (or none) to our services, which are informal and often interactive. The Church is led by a team representing our three parent denominations: Bernie Pinner, representing the Baptist Churches; Martin Ferris, representing the Medway Towns Group of United Reformed Churches; and Ernie Mann, representing the Church of England. http://stmarys-island-church.co.uk/
St Mark’s Archive
If you would like to know more about the history of the Medway area, and St Mark’s specifically, you’ll find lots of information on Medway Council’s Archive Service, City Ark. Their records date back to 604. http://cityark.medway.gov.uk A more recent history is also available from the church office.
St Mark's being built 1864
