Primary responsibilities:  Planning and leading worship services, serving as church administrator especially in the area of facility and grounds. Mark is an ordained Deacon in the Church of the Nazarene.

Wife:  Debbie-Anniversary August 9, 1980

Children:  Three adult children-Molly and her husband Jason and Naomi- granddaughter in Lawrenceville, GA; Emily and her husband, Nick in Garden Grove, CA; Peter in Yorba Linda, CA

Leisure activities:  Softball, golf, fishing, board games, word puzzles, reading, watching football

Life verse:  Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God. This is your spiritual act of worship. Romans 12:1

Path to Gateway:  After spending the last 20 years in Southern California we are returning home to Iowa. Previous pastoral assignments-Gardner, KS, Newton, IA, Kirksville, MO, Yorba Linda, CA.