Get to know Pastor Mark and Pastor Jennifer
Pastor Mark grew up as a preacher's kid and began preaching himself when he was 14. He graduated Cum Laude from Lee University in 1991. After that, he spent some years evangelizing, then at a couple pastorates before coming to Parkway Ministries. He and his lovely wife, Jennifer, have two beautiful daughters both married to their high-school sweethearts, a granddaughter and a two grandsons.
Pastor Mark travels from time to time on short-term missions trips as God opens the door. He has a heart for revival and is very involved with the prayer movement in Kentucky. He does some writing for national religious publications and always takes the opportunity to pray with and try to add value to the lives of other pastors and their wives. He has served on numerous denominational boards and committees.
Psalms 37:4 is Pastor Mark's life verse. "Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He shall give you the desires of your heart." He believes that being something great is far more important than doing something great. He tries to order his priorities accordingly and strives to live a life of prayer.
Pastor Mark travels from time to time on short-term missions trips as God opens the door. He has a heart for revival and is very involved with the prayer movement in Kentucky. He does some writing for national religious publications and always takes the opportunity to pray with and try to add value to the lives of other pastors and their wives. He has served on numerous denominational boards and committees.
Psalms 37:4 is Pastor Mark's life verse. "Delight yourself also in the Lord, and He shall give you the desires of your heart." He believes that being something great is far more important than doing something great. He tries to order his priorities accordingly and strives to live a life of prayer.
Pastor Jennifer is a native of Salyersville, KY, and attended Morehead State University. She and Mark met when he came to preach a revival at her home church. They married in 1993. Jennifer spent some years as a stay-at-home mom and currently works in the public school system. She is very active in ministry, working alongside her husband. She has been heavily involved in church administration, worship, youth ministry, event planning, teaching, and women's ministry.
While Jennifer is grateful for all the opportunities God has given her, she is most proud of her ministry as a mother to their two beautiful daughters, Emily and Ellie, and as Row Row to Harlyn Palmer and Colson Isaac. Along with that, she and Pastor Mark feel compelled in their role of spiritual mothering and fathering to a new generation both in the natural and spiritual dimension.
Jennifer's life-long conviction that God really does "work all things together for the good" has sustained her through all the ups and downs of a ministry calling that can sometimes prove to be bittersweet. She loves to embrace the fun side of life in Christ in a way that resonates both with the crowd as well as the individual.