Mark F. Tross

Mark Frederick Tross was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1957, attended Connecticut School of Broadcasting in Hartford, Connecticut, after graduating from Passaic Valley Regional High School in Little Falls, New Jersey in 1975. He worked in the retail business for twenty-two years, as a Department Manager, until retiring in 2001. At age twenty-five, Mark attended Maranatha Church of The Nazarene in New Milford, New Jersey and was licensed as a Minister there in 1984. In the late 1980's until the early 1990's Mark was Assistant Pastor to Rabbi Jonathan Cahn at Beth Israel Messianic Center in both Lodi and Garfield, New Jersey. Moving from Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania to Rio Rancho, New Mexico, in 2003, he attended the Foursquare Church, where he was licensed as an Associate Pastor, until he became Pastor of Rio Rancho North Foursquare Church, was Missions Director and Simple Church Director for Foursquare International throughout New Mexico. He and his wife, Juliet, were New Mexico State Directors for National Day of Prayer for several years and Mark is now the Coordinator for New Mexico Prayer Connect. Mark served as Pastor at Victory Church of God in Grants, New Mexico for three years and is presently an Ordained Bishop with Church of God, Cleveland, Tennessee. He has written extensively for the Faith Column in the Cibola Beacon Newspaper, various blogs, including iPatriot, as well as his own websites, has hosted several radio programs and produced the Cross Culture New Mexico television program. Greatest Of All Songs is his first published book.