St. Mark Church History

Mission and outreach are at the heart of St. Mark’s history.

St. Mark started as a mission congregation with the goal of reaching the workers in the mills that filled Columbus and lined the Chattahoochee River. By the 1920’s and 1930’s, St. Mark was a thriving downtown congregation with a fine building on Third Avenue.

Columbus changed, and, in the mid-1970’s, St. Mark was left with a small number of people and a big choice: close or move. Faced with similar circumstances, any other church might opt to close and allow its members to merge with another church. But St. Mark is not any other church! God led these faithful saints to sell their old building and purchase land on Whitesville Road in north Columbus, where people were just beginning to build new homes. Working out of a double-wide trailer, St. Mark began reaching people with the Gospel and became the “community church” for north Columbus.