A Blog for the leaders at Calvary McAllen

This blog is a place for Lead Pastor Julio to share updates on leadership ideas and developments at Calvary. I encourage feedback and comments as we together seek God's leadership for our church and for His mission.

Saturday, April 28, 2012

Mark Richardson, Pastor for Music and Worship



          Mark Richardson has been Calvary’s Pastor for Music and Worship for over three years since he and his family returned from Kenya. (Pastor Mark had served Calvary in that role before going to Kenya as a missionary). Mark and Deborah are parents of Paul (23), Jon (20), Rebecca (11) and Sara (8). Deborah stays very busy taking care of the family, singing in the choir and on the worship team and raising parrots. Paul is a student at STC where he works on campus. He also operates the sound for our 11:00 service, loves music and film and is very gifted with computers. Jon is studying theatre and film at St. Edward’s University in Austin. Rebecca and Sara attend IDEA academy and both love music and acting.
          Mark is responsible for leading worship for both English services and serves as a resource for all aspects of music ministry at Calvary, as well as overseeing the sound, lighting, media and video ministries for our worship services.  As Calvary uniquely offers a "classic" style worship service with choir and orchestra, a "contemporary" style worship service with a band, and a Spanish language worship service, we are blessed to have someone like Mark.  Mark is gifted in the leading and arranging of choir music and musical programs.  He also has an understanding and appreciation for contemporary style worship as he gives leadership to that service.  Additionally, Mark is very good about working with the rest of the team in helping to coordinate music and worship ministry that address the multi-language needs of our congregation.  Mark is also editor of the weekly bulletin.  He is very thankful for the incredibly gifted and dedicated team of staff and volunteers who do a lot of the “heavy lifting” every week in worship and children’s music ministry, and he is thankful for his partner in ministry, Benjamin Aguirre who leads Spanish language worship.
          We are grateful for Mark and for his heartfelt ministry.

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