Who are you? Are you Sam? Are you a wretched man? Do you want to become like the great I AM? That is what this Passover season is all about – not staying “wretched man that I am”, but becoming like the great I AM! How do we become like the great I AM? Complete, total, unconditional surrender must become our goal, our purpose in life, our magnificent obsession - because that was the key to Jesus Christ success in becoming our Savior – complete, total, unconditional surrender to His father’s will, not to His own will.

Mark Welch

Pastor, United Church of God

Mark graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree, Theology major, from Ambassador College, Pasadena, CA in 1978.  He married Barbara Lemke in October of 1978 and they have two grown children, Jaime and Matthew.  Mark was ordained in 1985 and hired into the full-time ministry in 1989.  Mark is the coordinator for United’s Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Services and his wife, Barbara, is an interpreter for the Deaf.