MARK BANE has served since 2017 as the director of evangelism and new church development for the USA/Canada region of the Church of the Nazarene. Previously, he served as district superintendent in Missouri for the Joplin district. He pastored growing churches in Arkansas, Florida, New Mexico, and Missouri, and planted eight new churches while pastoring existing congregations. After graduating from Trevecca Nazarene University in 1982, Bane continued his education at Nazarene Theological Seminary before moving into full-time ministry in 1986.