Mark Thames

Equipping Teacher

Mark Thames is a postmodern missionary in the alternative cultures of Dallas, Texas. He has a Ph.D. in postmodern philosophy from the University of Texas at Dallas (2004), an M.Div. in missions from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky (1989), and a B.A. in management from Duke University (1982).

Mark was saved at age 8 in First Baptist Church, Denton, Texas, and licensed to preach in 1982 by Westwood Baptist Church in Durham, North Carolina. He married Dawn Curtis (now Thames) in 1983. They have two children, Jonathan, born in 1988, and Elizabeth, born in 1990, both in Louisville. Mark was ordained in 1990 by Melbourne Heights Baptist Church there.

After serving as a student summer missionary in Wheeling, West Virginia, as president of the Duke University Baptist Campus Ministry, and as the international student liaison at Southern, Mark and Dawn taught as adjunct lecturers in the Baptist Theological College in Lusaka, Zambia, from 1991-1993.

From 1993 to the present, Mark and Dawn have worked in Dallas. Four churches have been started among unchurched people; two failed to develop, one went into and out of existence in good time, and one has constituted: Lower Greenville Baptist Community is a member in good standing of Dallas Baptist Association and the Baptist General Convention of Texas. Support for the Thameses has come from BGCT, DBA, a number of Baptist churches and agencies, individuals, and Emerging Church Network.

Mark mentors a number of alternative missionaries and church starters, is in the leadership at LGBC, has a big German shepherd and a small alley cat, and backpacks.

Email: temzman@yahoo.com