Mark Hausfeld
Executive Director
The Institute of Ministerial Wholeness
Dr. Mark Hausfeld has more than thirty years of pastoral and missionary experience, both in the United States and abroad. He is passionate about spiritual direction, leading retreats, and holistic formation so that ministers, missionaries, and those in the marketplace may be whole in Christ.
Mark's Experience
2018-Present
Mark has served and continues to focus on his call as a Spiritual Director. He leads spiritual formation retreats, is a missions speaker for churches and conferences, and serves as a missiologist with Assemblies of God World Missions. Mark is a writer and educator in the church and graduate institutions in the United States and globally.
2015-2017
Mark became President of the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary at Evangel University in Springfield, Missouri on July 1, 2015, where he served for two years. He recommended to the Seminary Board of Advisors and the Evangel University Board of Trustees that his position as President be eliminated that the Seminary may be led by the Dean of the Seminary since the consolidation of Evangel University, Central Bible College, and the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary (AGTS) was complete. The Board of Trustees agreed with the recommendation.
2009-2015
Dr. Hausfeld served as the international director of Global Initiative: Reaching Muslim Peoples. As director, Mark collaborated with national churches around the world, AGWM regions, and local churches in the United States to equip and mobilize them to reach Muslims everywhere.
2007-2008
Mark was the second J. Philip Hogan Chair of World Missions at AGTS. His three Hogan lectures and monograph focused on Islam in America: Reaching Diaspora Muslims through the Local Church. He currently serves as adjunct professor of Urban and Islamic Studies at AGTS and teaches at other universities, seminaries, and graduate schools in the United States and globally. He started and directed the Seminary’s Center for Islamic Studies in 2008. He continues to serve as professor of Urban and Islamic Studies for AGTS.
2000-2008
Mark served as the Area Director for Central Eurasia. In this role, he provided pastoral care, strategic consultation, and administration for missionaries and national leaders in the region’s 10 Muslim-majority countries at the heart of the “10/40 Window,” the least reached area of the world.
1995-2001
Mark and his wife, Lynda, served as AGWM missionaries in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. During that time, they started Teen Challenge Pakistan and assisted in two indigenous church plants. Prior to becoming AGWM missionaries, Mark pioneered and pastored an inner city, multi-cultural church on the south side of Chicago for ten years.
Leadership of the Institute for Ministerial Wholeness
Dr. Mark Hausfeld
Executive Director
The Institute of Ministerial Wholeness
