Our Mission & Vision
St. Mark’s provides meals to the homeless through:
Community Breakfast
Mercy Pedalers
Community Breakfast
Mercy Pedalers
Bringing mercy to the streets
“For I was hungry and you gave me food
I was thirsty and you gave me drink
I was a stranger and you welcomed me.”
-Mathew 25:35-40
Who are Mercy Pedalers?
They are people reaching out to men and women experiencing homelessness on the streets. Some of the volunteer’s ride bicycles or tricycles, some of the volunteers drive cars. St. Mark’s Mercy Pedalers visit people on the streets in the Arden-Arcade area, bringing them coffee and sandwiches, toiletries, and t-shirts and socks.
Would you like to be a Mercy Pedaler?
St. Mark’s coordinators in this ministry are Dick and Jan Dell who currently do their route every Wednesday morning. You are welcome to ride with them to see what it’s all about. They are hoping to add another day of the week (Tuesday, Thursday, or Saturday). You can volunteer one or more days a month, and the time commitment is two hours.
Other ways you can help
All items given out are donated.
· Protein Bars
· Coffee
· Sugar in packets
· Cups
· Bottled water
· Creamy Peanut Butter
· Strawberry or Grape Jam
· Travel Size Hygiene Items
· Men’s t-shirts and socks
All contributions are tax-deductible.
Donations maybe dropped off at St. Mark’s on Sundays (before or after worship service) in the lobby of the church, placed in the labeled basket of the church lobby. Dick and Jan may be reached at jmuggles@sbcglobal.net or 916.376.7637.
St. Mark’s also helps the homeless through combined efforts with:
Sacramento ACT
St. Mark’s Family Promise program
St. Mark’s team at Loaves and Fishes
Sacramento Area Congregations Together (ACT)
The joint effort with Sacramento ACT continues the work both organizations are doing to seek policy and budget changes that reduce and eventually eliminate homelessness. We need to tackle its root causes with social services, strategies to increase housing supplies, and other means.
Family Promise of Sacramento
As part of the multi-congregational Interfaith Hospitality Network, St. Mark’s provides a caring environment, nutritious evening meals, safe overnight shelter, mentoring and breakfasts four weeks per year for four homeless families. Program participants stay together as a family unit to receive support services that promote self-sufficiency, pursue stable housing, employment, proper health care, life skills training and return of children to regular school attendance. These efforts strive to enable families to re-enter into the mainstream community populace.
Loaves & Fishes
St. Mark’s mobilizes service teams that help provide daily meals at the downtown Loaves & Fishes Dining Room.
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Pastor Alan became the Pastor at St. Mark’s in July of 2011. Previously he served in pastoral capacities in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Sierra Leone (West Africa) and London with cross-cultural and cross-racial appointments.
Rev. Mahsea Evans joined St. Mark’s in November of 2015 as the Director of Youth and Young Adult Ministries.
Cath oversees St. Mark’s worship and music ministries and special projects. She has a heart for worship and nurtures a spirit of worship in the music ministries of St. Mark’s. She strategically rolls out and coordinates collaborative efforts that advance St. Mark’s as a professional non-profit, faith-based community organization while positioning the church as a reputable business entity and community resource. She joined the professional executive team at St. Mark’s in June of 2007. Her music role was added in 2008, and expanded to include all of the music ministries in 2016.
Tina grew up in a family with church at the center of family life. She also comes with a wealth of experience with children of all ages, including ten years of teaching in a church preschool. She currently works in a special education classroom in the Elk Grove Unified School District. Colleagues and parents appreciate her ability to reach and understand even the most challenging children. In addition to her professional achievements, Tina is the mother of two young adult daughters. 
A native of Columbus, Ohio, Robert Rouch studied Organ Performance at Ball State University under Kirby Koriath and Raul Prieto Rameriz.
Pam serves as the Faith Community Nurse at St. Mark’s. She is committed to the physiological and spiritual well-being of the extended St. Mark’s community. The services that she provides are made possible through procurement of grant funding secured by the United Methodist Women. Pam joined St. Mark’s in October of 2010.
Shatara oversees and manages the upkeep of St. Mark’s campus facilities. Her responsibilities include care, maintenance and preservation of four building structures, two parking lots, a memorial garden, dedicated playground space and surrounding land and hardscapes.