Bio

Bio Highlights for Mark Case

The Apostle Paul reminded the church in Corinth that he didn’t need a letter of recommendation for them to know who he was and what he taught, but that they themselves were his epistle, not written with ink but with the Spirit of the living God (II Corinthians 3:1-3).  He could say this because he planted that church and taught there for 18 months.  They knew him well.  That is not the case with me for most of you, however.  Therefore, I’ve listed some highlights of my life journey and ministry for you here.  I have nothing to boast about except God’s grace, God’s calling, and God’s equipping freely given, and of the Cross of Jesus Christ upon which He freely gave Himself that I might know Him (Galatians 6:14).  I’ve made plenty of mistakes too, but we have seen time and again how God “works all things together for our good and for His glory” (Romans 8:28-29).

• Married 47 years, with 3 children and 6 grandchildren, all walking with and growing in the Lord.
• Born again at age 9 and sensed a call to Christian ministry soon after.  Unsure of exactly what or where, but surely called.
• Raised by godly parents in a loving Christian home, and a lover of God’s Word since childhood.
• Received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit at age 19 while working on a Mississippi River boat during a summer break.
• Attended a small Bible college for two years, studying the Bible verse by verse.
• Licensed general contractor, design-building commercial buildings in the Southeast.
• Called out of secular work at age 40 to begin full time ministry in the gospel of Jesus Christ.
• Led by the Holy Spirit to move our family to Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1997.  We started with only $100, did not know anyone there, or the language.  We didn’t know where to go, where to live, or how God would use us.
• God took over our family immediately upon arrival, miraculously leading the way, and miraculously providing all the way to this very day.  Within weeks, I had preached in a prominent evangelical church in Buenos Aires, and within months, I was speaking weekly in local churches throughout southern Chile with the team that God had prepared for me there.  Within a few short years, I was preaching and teaching regularly in countless churches throughout much of South America.  Within fewer than a dozen years, God had opened countless effective doors where I spoke across four continents.
• Led Christian convocations of various kinds in places where Christians are openly shunned and even persecuted, including in predominantly Hindu, Muslim, and Buddhist countries.  
• Submitted articles regularly for publication in a leading Latin American Christian magazine. 
• Organized and led three-day, city-wide, evangelical pastor/leader seminars throughout parts of South America for approximately 7 years.  Sometimes, spoke in several different local churches over a single three-day weekend.
• Ordained by the spiritual leaders of our local church in the USA, after they recognized God’s strong hand on our ministry. 
• Led short-term foreign mission teams from the USA into Latin America, including one medical mission.
• Keynote speaker for various pastors’ associations as well as regional and national pastor/leader conferences in South America, the Middle East, and Asia; guest speaker in various Bible seminaries in South America.
• Keynote speaker for 2 consecutive years for the famed seven-day Sialkot Convention, founded by Praying (John) Hyde in 1904.  For more than 100 years, the largest annual convocation of Christians in Pakistan.  Had a standing invitation to speak there for 7 years straight but was led by the Holy Spirit in another direction during that time.
• Co-organized and hosted a debate about the Divinity of Jesus Christ, conducted at the University of Glasgow (Scotland), between the late Dr. Anis Shorrosh and Shabir Ally (the world’s foremost debater among Muslim scholars).  
• Organized and led the first pastor/leader convocation for Iraqi Church leaders and their wives after the fall of Sadaam Hussain and the Iraqi government.  Leaders came to our secure location from Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Iraq.
• Founded a mobile Bible school for small-village pastors in Andhra Pradesh, India, after working in India.  Taught online frequently for several years with the aid of our resident team.
• In coordination with Love and Compassion Ministries of London, UK, helped provide clean water wells and build local church buildings in poor remote villages in southern India.  
• Produced and taught approximately 50 television broadcasts shown on Directv nationwide in the USA and taught approximately 100 more broadcasts produced by a regional Christian TV network in the southeastern United States.
• Spoke in various churches across the Southeastern United States and to many believers in other venues.
• Wrote a Biblically-sound, prophetic message to the Church in 2003 about coming judgments in the churches and His coming glory to His faithful remnant; published 23,000 copies for free distribution.  That message is unfolding today..
• Write and publish The Last Days Times newspaper and magazine with wide distribution across America.

I preach and teach from every book of the Bible, but the focus has been to call all who claim Jesus Christ out of religious Christianity, out of cultural Christianity, and into a truly Spirit-filled relationship with Jesus Christ and to seek out and gather with those of like precious faith. God allowed me to see many local churches with spiritual eyes up close, both at home and abroad; and He inspired me by His Holy Spirit to expound on His Word to them on His behalf.  It has been and continues to be God’s work, not mine.  Everyone called to preach God’s Word should be able to say with the Apostle Paul: “But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us” (II Corinthians 4:7).  Amen!