Mark is the founder of Family Based Youth Ministry. For the past 18 years, he has served as the Associate Pastor for Youth and Their Families at First Presbyterian Church in Nashville, Tenn., where he continues to oversee the youth ministry on a part-time basis.

Mark has trained youth workers across the United States, as well as in Russia, Canada, Uganda and South Africa, working with a wide variety of denomninations. He has taught courses or been a guest lecturer at a number of colleges and seminaries, including Princeton Theological Seminary, Vanderbilt Divinity School, David Lipscomb University, Travecca Nazarene College, King College (Bristol, Tenn.), Montreat College (Montreat, N.C.), William Tyndale College (Detroit, MI), Presbyterian College (Montreal, Quebec), Reformed Theological Seminary (Charlotte, N.C.), and Tyndale Theological Seminary (Toronto, Canada).

Mark is on the national parenting seminar team of Wayne Rice’s “Understanding Your Teenager.” In addition to partnering occasionally with popular Christian musician, Mark Schultz, Mark has also spoken at Youth Builders’ first Family-Based Youth Ministry Conference.