Collins St. Mark AME Church of St. Petersburg

03/21/2026

03/17/2026

Community Memory. Community Power. Community Ownership.
The story of the Gas Plant Neighborhood is a powerful reminder of how systems — housing, development, land use, and economics — shape the health and future of our communities.
For many Black neighborhoods across the country, including right here in South St. Petersburg, decisions made without community voice led to displacement, lost wealth, and broken food systems. When communities lose land, businesses, and institutions, they often lose access to healthy food, economic opportunity, and generational stability.
That’s why conversations like the upcoming screening of RAZED: A Film About the Gas Plant Neighborhood matter.
At One Community Grocery Co-op (OCGC), we believe systems change happens when communities move from being displaced to becoming owners.
🥕 Community-owned food systems
🏪 Cooperative businesses
💰 Local wealth building
🌱 Healthy food access
A community-owned grocery store is about more than food — it’s about restoring agency, rebuilding local economies, and ensuring that the people who live in a neighborhood help shape its future.
We encourage our community to attend this important screening, learn from our shared history, and continue building solutions together.
Because when communities organize, remember, and invest in themselves…
we don’t just rebuild — we transform.

03/16/2026

March 15, 2026 -The Love's were joyful and blessed to be in the service today. Pastor Wade thanked visiting Pastor Rev. Franklin Rich for bringing the encouraging Preached Word lifted from Mark 11:22-26. The theme was "It's Time to Pray. Rev. Rich emphasized pray with intent knowing that what we believe what we pray for will bear fruit!

02/23/2026

BLACK HISTORY MONTH -February 22, 2026 - Collins St. Mark AME 3RD Annual Black History Month @ MT ZION PBC - St Petersburg, FL

02/17/2026

02/17/2026

BLACK HISTORY MONTH - FEBRUARY 16, 2026-Pre-Post Disaster: Spiritual & Mental Health Healing & Hope After Disaster Session with Rev. Wade, Pastor Gay and Ms. Brown was educational and informative. ATTENDEES received Words of Hope and Hurricane Preparedness Kits.

02/16/2026

BLACK HISTORY MONTH - SUNDAY FEBRUARY 15 - Worship service with Pastor Mike and Faith United Methodist Church congregation Dunedin. Pastor Wade's Message lifted from Jeremiah 29:10-14 "For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you," declares the LORD, "and I will bring you back from captivity. I will gather you from all the nations and places wheere I have banished you, "declares the LORD, "and will bring you back to the place from which I carried you into exile."

02/16/2026

BLACK HISTORY MONTH SUNDAY FEB 8 - MARK 10:46-52 THEME:
He Saw the Best in Me

01/26/2026

Pastor Wade with Sister Reba and Family.
Todays Word was lifted from Psalm 91:1-10 Subject : Keep First Things First!

Psalm 91
1 Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High
will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.[a]
2 I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress,
my God, in whom I trust.”

3 Surely he will save you
from the fowler’s snare
and from the deadly pestilence.
4 He will cover you with his feathers,
and under his wings you will find refuge;
his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.
5 You will not fear the terror of night,
nor the arrow that flies by day,
6 nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness,
nor the plague that destroys at midday.
7 A thousand may fall at your side,
ten thousand at your right hand,
but it will not come near you.
8 You will only observe with your eyes
and see the punishment of the wicked.

9 If you say, “The Lord is my refuge,”
and you make the Most High your dwelling,
10 no harm will overtake you,
no disaster will come near your tent.

01/19/2026