Greetings and welcome to my site. I wanted to start my own site for several different reasons. One of which was for the purpose of developing my web skills. Building a site from scratch (not merely maintaining) is a great learning tool. While I do most of my waxing on my church's website via the pastor's blog, I also wanted a place to post different kinds of news and work that are more of a personal nature (papers, thoughts, resumes etc.). We also only post selected sermons on the website, but I wanted a place to post all of mine that I preach. And of course, I wanted the world a chance to get to know me

So, I guess who I am is in order. My name is Mark Bahr (and that is often what I am simply known as, I'm rarely called just Mark) and I am currently serving as a pastor of Faith Community Church in Dallas. In addition, I am serving as the websmaster and in other respects. The church is not at a point where I can be fully funded, so I have to work on the side to make ends meet. I am presently employed by the Starbucks Coffee Company as a shift supervisor at the Knox Street location in Uptown Dallas. I love coffee and am frequently found with cup in hand.

On more specific notes, I hold a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Master of Arts degree in New Testament from The Criswell College right here in Dallas, TX. The Greek New Testament is one of my favorite things to read. I worked for three years in Missions for Heart of God Ministries in Oklahoma helping to develop linguistics training as well as academic training. In this work, I had the opportunity to travel all over Mexico, Tibetan China, Yunnan Province in China and Hong Kong to help out missionaries in various stages of their ministries.

Feel free to look around the site and explore. Right now all I have is this front page, but I'll have sermons up before long as well as pictures and a blog.