Pastor Mark Driscoll was born in 1970 and raised Irish Catholic. He was born again in late 1989, married his high school sweetheart Grace in 1992, graduated with a B.A. in Speech Communications in 1993, and is currently completing an M.A. in Exegetical Theology at Western Seminary. He founded Mars Hill Church in Seattle in the fall of 1996, which has grown to almost 5,000 in one of America’s least churched cities and is one the nation's 60 fastest-growing churches. He co-founded and is President of the Acts 29 Church Planting Network, which has planted over one hundred churches in the U.S. and internationally, and most recently he founded and leads the Resurgence Missional Theology Cooperative. Pastor Mark has been named one of the twenty-five most influential pastors in America by The Church Report, one of the most influential young preachers in America by Christianity Today, Inc. (with over a million downloads of his sermons a year), and one of the twenty-five most powerful people in Seattle by Seattle magazine. Media coverage on Pastor Mark and Mars Hill varies from National Public Radio to Mother Jones magazine, Blender music magazine, Outreach magazine, Preaching Today, and Leadership magazine to ABC Television and the 700 Club. His writing includes two books; The Radical Reformission: Reaching Out Without Selling Out and Confessions of a Reformission Rev: Hard Lessons From an Emerging Missional Church. He is also a staff columnist for the Seattle Times, Rev! magazine, and The Church Report. Most enjoyably, Mark is the father of three sons and two daughters.