Mark Clark
Mark grew up in Toronto and moved to Vancouver in 2004 to attend Regent College, where he received a Master of New Testament Studies. Following over ten years of ministry, Mark, along with his wife Erin and an amazing team of people, planted Village Church in January 2010, which has now grown to a vibrant multi-site church in the Greater Vancouver Area. He is passionate about contextualizing the gospel, teaching the Bible, seeing people transformed by Jesus, planting churches, and seeing the gospel advance across Canada. Mark resides in South Surrey with his wife and their three daughters. He is honoured and excited to lead Village Church wherever God calls it to go.
Bio last updated April 30th, 2018.
Articles by Mark Clark
The Church’s Village Voice
By Hannah Marazzi with Mark Clark
November 14, 2017
Born into a staunchly atheistic family, Mark Clark has built Village Church into a community of 6,000 worshippers in multiple places across Canada. The success, Clark tells Convivium’s Hannah Marazzi, springs from fostering a Gospel-rooted church for the de-churched.
C: You are “passionate about contextualizing the gospel, teaching the Bible, and seeing people transformed by Jesus As I look at the Church in Canada, I become aware that when you’re not living like a counter cultural community, and start to wash down theology into some sort of mainstream message, you collapse, over and over again MC: In Canada, when I say the Gospel or I say God, am I aware of what that means and how that is being received by the culture I’m in? Canadians speak a certain language We’re all asking, “How do you reach de-churched people? How do you re-evangelize a country that isn’t part of the conversation of faith anymore?” MC: We began our church by asking, “How do you reach unchurched, de-churched people like me, the sceptics?” Our church isn't for everybody