Wholehearted love of God.

At St Mark’s we love God. With all our hearts, at least that’s our desire. You might assume that’s what a church would do—love God wholeheartedly. But we don’t want to assume it; we want to state it up front. That way nobody forgets that’s what’s most important. Especially us.

Committed to Word and prayer.

We are unashamedly committed to the Bible, which is the very word of God. We take the Bible way more seriously than we take ourselves. So you can expect that we’ll always have it open, and also have our hearts open and ready to change in response to what we hear.

We’re also pretty big on prayer, because we know that God is always more ready to listen to us than we are to talk to him, which is what prayer is all about. We pray in our services, we have monthly prayer meetings, and you might see us praying in our conversations when we realise that whatever we’ve been talking about could be turned into a prayer.

Desire for Christian maturity.

We don’t think we’ve ever maxed out our potential to grow as Christian people. We are all works in progress, as God does his work in us. That’s another way of saying that we want to be maturing as believers, growing in our godliness, taking in the likeness of our Lord, in his strength not ours. It’s not always easy, but it’s easier when we’re growing together.

Embracing warm relationships.

We are people who love people. And we’re always open to meeting new people and making new friends. You can expect to receive a warm welcome at St Mark’s. And you can also expect us to be thinking about how we can love and serve one another.

Open posture to the world.

Some churches are holy huddles, looking inwards. We hope to be open to the world around us. That firstly means we’re interested in Northbridge, our local community. So we get involved where we can. But it also extends to the rest of our city, country and planet. We’ve partnered with people who are taking both the love of Jesus, and the life-giving message of Jesus well beyond the leafy locale of Northbridge into all the world.