Specific, concrete spiritual goals can make a tremendous difference in your spiritual outlook and well-being during the weeks and months leading up to another spiritual lift, God’s Spring Holy Days.  Those days seem like a long way off, don’t they?  Having spiritual goals for the next several months will help you stay spiritually focused and will even seem to make the time pass more quickly.

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.