MINISTRIES

   FREE COMMUNITY MEAL

   Along with our mission to help with food and clothing,

St. Mark’s invites the community to a

   FREE MEAL the third Wednesday of every month.

Folks are invited to come in, sit down,

   and be served a hearty meal with a smile!

   While dining, they can visit with our friendly helpers,

with each other, or just enjoy their meal and leave.

   Both the food and fellowship are free.

   “Come Hungry – Leave Loved”

Stop by and meet the folks from Ohio Northern University HealthWise PHARMACY while you are here.

They always have a table at our Free Community Meal to provide:

  • Blood Pressure Checks
  • Blood Glucose Checks
  • Access to a physician / pharmacist for questions or concerns about your health or medication. 

FREE ICE CREAM SUNDAYS

The last Sunday of June, July and August,

you’ll find a cool and delicious treat

waiting for you in our parking lot.

From 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm, we are dishing up vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry ice cream.

(Sometimes mint chocolate chip even shows up!)

  And that’s just to start!

There’s bananas!

There’s toppings!

There’s sprinkles!!

And smiles!

When it’s hot outside, we’ve got the “scoop” on how to cool off, meet others and, perhaps,

make a new friend or two!

THRIVE MINISTIRES OF LIMA, INC.

Our Mission: To provide safe, secure and quality transitional housing for individuals and families coming out of homelessness. We pray that those who reside in our homes will feel the safety and provision of God and will “thrive” in their journey to become all that God intends for them to be.

Our first home is located at 555 Tremont Ave. in Lima

Thrive Ministries of Lima, Inc. is a ministry of St. Mark’s Methodist Church.

 

Each year, St. Mark’s  strives to financially support several very worthy ministries.

Here are just a few examples:

SALVATION ARMY: Our 2024 special Christmas Offering collected $1,000 to help the Salvaton Army.

SAMARITANS PURSE: Our 2024 special Thanksgiving Offering collected $2,500 to help Samartians’ Purse.

INDIAN LAKE TORNADO RELIEF: Easter 2024, St. Mark’s raised $3,120 to help the folks devastated by the March tornados.

ONE MISSION SOCIETY: Also in 2024, we began sponsoring Hannah McCalla, a missionary to Northern Ireland.

LIMA RESCUE MISSION: In 2023, St. Mark’s helped to purchase blankets to keep the men warm at night.

WATER For LIFE: Also in 2023, St. Mark’s raised $5,000 to drill a complete water well in Africa.

MOTORBIKE:  In 2022, St. Mark’s raised $4,000 to purchase a motorbike (and fuel) for a pastor in Zambia, Africa.