Following the Ocoee River up Highway 64 will eventually bring you to this off-the-beaten-path mining town. Although the copper mines have closed, the small town still exists in this isolated corner of the Diocese.

And St. Mark’s Mission has been there through all the ups and downs of the region. Received into the Diocese as an organized mission in 1939, the church holds services each Sunday. The Rev. Pat Cahill presently serves the congregation as an extended supply priest.

Focusing on worship and being the church in Copperhill, the small congregation cares for each other and the stranger in their midst. Its care for its members is reminiscent of the early church.

The fine music each week is provided by 16-year-old Richard Newman. Encouraged and supported in his musical endeavors by the congregation, Richard has become an excellent church organist with plans to pursue his talent with the help of the people of St. Mark’s.

The people of St. Mark’s provide a faithful Episcopal presence in the face of the daily struggles of being a small liturgical church in a rural mountain village.