Dr. Mark Hausfeld is the 2007 J. Phillip Hogan Professor of World Missions at AGTS. He currently serves as Area Director for Central Eurasia, leading all AG World Missions (AGWM) efforts across the ten nations of Central Eurasia. In addition to administration and strategic leadership, his missionary work has ranged across a wide variety of activities, from teaching in theological schools to opening drug rehabilitation centers to leading relief and development work to facilitating short-term missions teams for college students. Before entering foreign missionary service in 1992, Dr. Hausfeld was a pastor in Chicago, serving as associate pastor at Southside Tabernacle before planting Maranatha AG. He also served on the Chicago Commission for Human Relations.

Dr. Hausfeld has served as an adjunct faculty member at AGTS since 2002 and teaches an annual class on Intercultural Urban Ministry in Chicago that exposes students directly to urban missions in the United States. He is a frequent speaker at conferences around the world. Together with his wife, Lynda, and Ken Horn, he is the author of Silk Road Stories: Amazing Tales of God’s Work in an Ancient Land (Onward Books, 2005). He recently contributed a chapter, “Ministry in Hostile Areas” to the book Java and Justice: Journeys in Pentecostal Missions Education, edited by B. Brenneman, W. R. Brookman, and N. Muhovich. (North Central University Press, 2006).

Read about his inaugural lecture.