Pastor Mark is a graduate of Dallas Theological Seminary (ThM) where he also planted a church in downtown Dallas as an outreach to spiritually disaffected youth.  He then served as the Director of Community Ministries as the pastor to the poor and marginalized at All Angels’ Church for nearly ten years, followed by an equally long stretch at a pastorate in Vancouver, British Columbia. Mark also serves as a Spiritual Director. He grew up in central New Jersey and is a dual citizen of the United States and Canada. He loves to hike, have good conversation over coffee, and is rather unsuccessfully trying his hand at fly-fishing.