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First Presbyterian Church
4815 Franklin Rd.
Nashville, TN 37220
615/383-1815 contact us.
Fax: 615/298-9565
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The Reverend Mark DeVries
Associate Pastor for Youth & Their Families
Email: Mark DeVries
For the past 20 years, Mark DeVries has served as the Pastor for Youth and Their Families. He is also the founder of Youth Ministry Architects, a coaching service for churches experiencing significant transition in their youth ministries.
Mark has authored a number of books, including Family-Based Youth Ministry (InterVarsity, 1994); and the co-author of The Most Important Year in a Man's Life/The Most Important Year in a Woman's Life. Mark's writings have now been translated into Korean, Chinese, and Afrikaanse. In addition to presenting youth ministry training workshops, he is also a presenter for Understanding Your Teenager, a national parenting seminar program.
Mark graduated Summa Cum Laude from Baylor University in Waco, Texas, with a B.A. in English and Greek in 1980, and from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1986 with a senior concentration in Youth Evangelism. Throughout these years spent in Waco and Princeton, Mark was involved in youth ministry—working with Young Life in both Waco and Montgomery, New Jersey, and serving on the youth staff at the First United Methodist Church in Waco. Upon graduation from Princeton, he was awarded the first Robert Boyd Munger Youth Ministry prize.
Over the past 21 years, Mark has conducted conferences and taught courses in the United States, Russia, Canada, Uganda, Scotland and South Africa and has worked with a wide variety of Christian denominations. As well as authoring several books, he has contributed to Youth Ministry Collections, including Youth Ministry Handbook (Word, 2000), Starting Right (Zondervan, 2001), Reaching A Generation For Christ (Moody, 1997) and Youthworker Journal and Group Magazine. In his spare time, Mark enjoys running marathons.
Currently Mark lives in Nashville, Tennessee with his wife, Susan, and children Adam (24), Debbie (20), and Leigh (17). |
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