Dr. Mark B. Spence

Mark serves as the Lead Pastor of Mississippi Avenue Baptist Church in Aurora, Colorado. Prior to MABC, Mark served as the Campus Pastor of Cross Church, a satellite campus of North Richland Hills Baptist Church, in Fort Worth, Texas. Over the course of 11 years of serving at NRHBC, Mark wore several different ministry hats including missions, evangelism, discipleship, and education.

Growing up in Colleyville, Texas, Mark met Janet Emmons, his high school sweetheart. After attending Texas A&M University, Janet and Mark married at NRHBC in July of 2001. The Spence's are blessed to have adopted their first child, Parker, who was born in December of 2008. God further and surprisingly blessed the Spence family through the birth of their second son, Jonathan, on September 1, 2009.

After graduation, Mark completed his Masters of Divinity at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in May, 2005. Mark graduated from Fuller Theological Seminary in June of 2014 with a Doctor of Ministry in being awesome.