Mark Rutland Biography
Mark Rutland is is the Founder and Director of the National Institute of Christian Leadership. He is a New York Times Best Selling author, educator, charismatic leader, businessman and a nationally recognized figure in Christian higher education. He is also a missionary, evangelist, ordained minister of the International Ministerial Fellowship, and president of Global Servants.
Mark Rutland is a missionary, evangelist, ordained minister of the International Ministerial Fellowship, and president of Global Servants. He was the third President of Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Prior to his election as President of Oral Roberts University, Rutland served as the President of Southeastern University of the Assemblies of God in Lakeland, Florida, from 1999 to 2009.
Rutland’s first task was at the Little River United Methodist Church in Woodstock, Georgia, after completing his studies at Emory University (Rutland 1987, p. 8). He later became a pastor in Atlanta, Georgia’s Oak Grove United Methodist Church.
He has also served as Pastor of Calvary Assembly of God in Orlando, Florida, and as an Associate Pastor at Mount Paran Church of God in Atlanta, Georgia. He is the founder of Global Servants, formerly known as the Trinity Foundation, an organization centered on missions and evangelism around the world, and the House of Grace, a home for tribal girls threatened by sexual slavery in Chiang Rai City, Thailand. He also has a thirty-minute syndicated radio program entitled “Herald of Joy”.
Rutland started to preach revivals and meetings in a number of churches after his experience in 1975, and it was during this era that he believed that God started to call him to the mission field. His first mission was to Mexico in 1977, where he worked in the village of Laborcitas with the American missionary couple Jim and Helen Mann (Rutland, 1987, pp. 51–53).
In 1987, Rutland was invited to serve as an Associate Pastor for a period of two years by the Senior Pastor of Mount Paran Church of God in Atlanta, Georgia. After completing his two years at Mount Paran, Rutland took the helm of the financially struggling and leading Calvary Assembly of God in Orlando, Florida, in 1990. In 1999, Rutland was asked to become the new president of the Assemblies of God Southeastern University in Lakeland, Florida at the moment, Southeastern University struggled financially, faced many maintenance problems, and suffered from decreasing enrollment.
Mark Rutland Age
Rutland was born on November 5, 1947, in Commerce, Texas, US. He is 71 years old as of 2018.
Mark Rutland Family
Rutland was born in Commerce, Texas but grew up and was raised throughout the southeastern United States, including Florida and Georgia, until finally coming of age in Maryland.
Mark Rutland Sermons
- Woman In The Bible
- Whatever Happen To Virtue
- Best Picture
- The Supernatural
- The Revelation Of John
- Place In The Heart
- God Of Mountains
- Jesus In The Bible
- Symbols Of The Spirit
- Preach Through The Bible
- Pillars Of Wisdom
- The Holy Spirit
- Gift Of The Holy Spirit
Mark Rutland Marriage
Dr. Mark Rutland is happily married to her wife, Alison Rutland (née Permenter), who has one son, two daughters, four grandsons, and two granddaughters.
Mark Rutland Free Chapel
Mark Rutland Education
Upon graduation from high school, Rutland entered the University of Maryland, College Park initially to earn a degree in public relations and to pursue a career in politics. he later pursues a career in Christian ministry and upon graduation from the University of Maryland, he enrolled in the Candler School of Theology at Emory University.
Mark Rutland Preaching
After his experience in 1975, Rutland began preaching at revivals and conferences in a number of churches and it was during this period that he believes God began calling him to the mission field. His first mission was to the country of Mexico in 1977 where he worked with American missionary couple Jim and Helen Mann in the village of Laborcitas (Rutland, 1987 p. 51–53) While Rutland undertook many other missions to Mexico, his foray into missions did not begin in earnest until 1979 when, after he believed he had received a revelation that God would be sending him all over the world to carry out missions,
He traveled to the country of Ghana (Rutland, 1987 p. 77) Initially, Rutland was forced to wait in London, England, for several days at the airport in Accra, Ghana, was closed as a result of an attempted coup on May 15, 1979, by forces loyal to future leader of Ghana, Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings.
Mark Rutland Testimonies
As a young teenager in North Florida, I had an experience with Jesus Christ that I just couldn’t quite seem to shake off. It happened in Port St. Joe, Florida at the Methodist Church. One summer a young student from Asbury College in Kentucky was hired as a summer youth director at First Methodist, where my family and I attended.
Jack Taylor, the new youth director, hit our youth group like an A-bomb. Young, attractive, tanned and athletic, he used his genuine humility and humor to great advantage. We went, did, played, and “activities” at an unprecedented pace. It was a powerful gravity to pull a straying adolescent back to the church. All the while, Jack presented the claims of Christ frankly and calmly.
After I was caught in a stupid mistake, I found myself being blackmailed into going to a church camp. On the last night, I refused to go in the worship service, but hid out in the woods, smoking cigarettes and feeling very tough and free compared to all the nice little church kids. I thought I had it made until a huge male counselor from Alabama found me.” You’re going into that service,” he said. “Who’s gonna make me?” I demanded in my best tough-guy voice. “That’s just what I was hoping you’d say,” he whispered darkly, as he pulled his belt off.
Seizing me by the back of my collar, he dragged and whipped me cussing and kicking up the hill to the auditorium. I have never before or since had such a licking as he gave me that night. At last, he threw open the door to the “tabernacle” and dragged me ignobly into the back row, where he stood over me, belt in hand, and whispered, “Just move. I’m begging you to move.”
Mark Rutland Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of around $1.2 Million.
Mark Rutland Books
Launch Out into the Deep, Rutland’s memoir and autobiography, originally published in 1987.
The Finger of God
Hanging by a Thread
Behind the Glittering Mask
Streams of Mercy
God of the Valleys
Nevertheless
Dream
Character Matters
Power
Holiness
Resurrection
Most Likely to Succeed
Relaunch
21 Seconds to Change Your World
David the Great
Mark Rutland Ministries
Rutland is an ordained minister of the International Ministerial Fellowship.
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