Mum Sale
Every September, St. Mark’s holds a mum sale with proceeds benefitting local service organizations. Our annual mum sale benefits the Glen House Food Pantry and the Glen Ellyn Walk-In Ministry.
Outreach Committee
Branching Out Into the World
Outreach Committee Chairs
Outreach Ministries
Glen House Food Pantry
St. Mark’s supports the Glen House Food Pantry with volunteers, food drives, and monetary donations.
For more information, contact Joyce Frawley.
Appalachia Service Project (ASP)
ASP is a one-week mission trip in the summer to Appalachia, where youth and their adult chaperones work on projects to make residents’ homes warmer, safer, and dryer. Contact John Zelman for more information.
ReVive Center Christmas Baskets
Since 1921 ReVive Center for Housing and Healing, through the generosity of thousands of sponsoring donors, has provided Christmas baskets to 1,500 low-income families and seniors in Chicago each year. Contact Ginnie Judd for more information.
Pumpkin Patch
Each year before Halloween, the front lawn of St. Mark’s is turned into a pumpkin patch. Proceeds from the sale of pumpkins support DuPagePads.
Holy Family School Backpack and Supply Drive
In August 2022, we collected 72 backpacks, notebooks, crayons, calculators, rulers, erasers, pencils, pens and more for the students of Holy Family Ministries. Even a bike was donated for a school raffle. All the donations were worth over $2,000.
For more information, contact Director of Children’s Ministry Gina Wood.
San Marcos, Nigromante
St. Mark’s has been in a companion relationship with San Marcos in Nigromante since our first visit led by the Rev. George Smith in June 2006. This relationship was inspired by and is an extension of our ongoing companion diocesan relationship with the Diocese of Southeast Mexico and the Diocese of Renk in Sudan, established in 2001.
