Mark brings 20 years planning and leading worship for various communities into his reflections on worship. He has earned a Bachelor of Music Composition, a Master of Theology, and will have completed a Master of Counseling Psychology by the end of 2008. He hopes to be working in the field of addiction counseling by this time next year.

Mark and his wife, Betsy Branch, have both served as Village Musicians at Holden in previous years. Mark and his family make their home in Portland, OR, where they are members of the Wilderness Way Community, a small faith gathering dedicated to the vision of Enough For Everyone.