Mark MacKnight, MTS in Pentecostal Studies - Graduate, 2010

He and his wife Pam have two kids, Rachel and James, and both are in Bible College in Edmonton.

During a Sunday School class in Belleville, Mark prayed the sinner’s prayer. He was 8 years of age.

At the end of a Sunday morning service, after guest preacher Al Bowen had said that he felt there were some in the congregation who were called to full-time ministry, Mark responded and walked to the front of Ottawa Bethel. He was 13 years old.

After graduating from NorthWest Bible College, he served at Mississauga Gospel Temple with Fred Fulford, with Herb Barber at Calvary Temple in Winnipeg, then on to Morden, Manitoba, where he was senior pastor, then to Agincourt Pentecostal Church to work with Keith Smith. While pastoring this last assembly, he began his work with Master’s @ Tyndale. He was 40.

Similar to many of our students, who are in ministry or hold down other full-time jobs, Mark chipped away at the MTS in Pent Studies a bit each year. His goal was to finish before he was 50, or before the Lord returned.

He has been pastoring Christian Life Centre in Ajax for the last 7 years, but he has just resigned. This fall he begins a new chapter in ministry.
He is returning to his alma mater, now known as Vanguard, to be the Director of the School of Pastoral Leadership.

And Mark is only 49.