Wikipedia / Mark Finley
Wikipedia / Mark Finley
Mark A. Finley (born July 23, 1945) is an American former host and director of It Is Written (from 1991–2004), for which he traveled around the world as a televangelist. He was the first Seventh-day Adventist pastor to do a satellite evangelistic series. Mark Finley currently serves as Assistant to the President of the General Conference, appointed at the 2010 General Conference Session in Atlanta. As assistant to the president he to work with evangelism and television as his primary portfolio. Prior to this he became and served as one vice-president out of nine for the Seventh-day Adventist Church. He served nearly two years as general field secretary at the world headquarters, directing the Center for Global Evangelism.
Life and career
Finley's mother was Catholic, and his father was Protestant, with Finley being raised Catholic. Finley was baptized in March 1963. He studied theology at Atlantic Union College (AUC) in South Lancaster, Massachusetts.
Pastor Finley and his wife "started and nurtured" the Living Hope Seventh-day Adventist Community Church, located in Haymarket, Virginia.
Books
2000 and Beyond
End Time Living
The Next Superpower
Satisfied
Solid Ground
Studying Together
Thirteen Life-Changing Secrets
Revelation's Predictions for a New Millennium
Books co-authored with Steven R. Mosley:
A Religion that Works
Confidence Amid Chaos
Faith Against the Odds
Jerusalem Showdown
Hope for a New Century
Looking for God in all the Wrong Places
Questioning the Supernatural
Revelation's Three Most Wanted
Unshakable Faith
When Faith Crumbles
Why So Many Denominations?
Books co-authored with George Vandeman, the founder of It Is Written:
The Overcomers
See also
References
External links
, in a message to the General Youth Conference in 2004
"", gratitude expressed by Jeff Teater
Articles about Finley and by Finley, as cataloged in the Seventh-day Adventist Periodical Index (SDAPI)
web site of the Seventh-day Adventist Church