St. Mark’s United Methodist Church

Enjoy going off and on. Wonder place to serve the community and get your soul fed.

St. Mark’s UMC is a mission-​driven church that helps people grow spiritually, wherever they are on their faith journey. It is a warm and welcoming church, open to ALL. Its members are committed to making a positive difference in the community and the world! The sermons by Pastor Alan Jones are inspiring, often challenging, and always uplifting.

St. Mark’s is a wonderful church and community. My girlfriend and I have attended services regularly here for about 5 or 6 months now and we’ve been welcomed with open arms and have felt nothing but love at this church. Before coming to St. Marks, I’d attended all too many churches where the focus was on attacking other people, where fear was the driving force, where pastors and preachers insulted the intelligence of their congregation. At St. Marks «all are welcome and all means ALL» and the focus is on action, on love, on compassion and on social justice. The people are kind, the music is great, and the pastor actually speaks to us like intelligent adults. For the first time in my life, I look forward to going to church every Sunday, and I feel like I’m actually growing in faith.

Sacramento’s most progressive Christian church, a reconciling congregation friendly and welcoming to GLBTis, with a great speaker series beginning in August with author Anne Lamott, and including Father Gregory Boyle of Homeboy Industries in LA, Arun Gandhi, Brian McLaren, and Sister Helen Prejean.