14 Facts About Mark Rutland

Mark Rutland was born on November 5,1947 and is a missionary, evangelist, ordained minister of the International Ministerial Fellowship, and founder of Global Servants, formerly known as the Trinity Foundation.

Mark Rutland was the third president of Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Mark Rutland has a thirty-minute syndicated radio program titled Herald of Joy.

Mark Rutland is married to Alison Mark Rutland and has three children.

Mark Rutland was born in Commerce, Texas but grew up and was raised throughout the southeastern United States, including Florida and Georgia, until finally coming of age in Maryland.

Mark Rutland met his future wife, Alison, in his junior year of high school, where she was a member of the cheerleading squad.

Some years later, his wife Alison, a born-again Christian, indicated that she too had received a word from God that Mark Rutland was to become a minister and it is his wife's confirmation that he credited as the deciding factor in his decision to abandon his dreams of politics and pursue a life of ministry.

In 1987, Mark Rutland was invited by the senior pastor of Mount Paran Church of God in Atlanta, Georgia, to serve as an Associate Pastor for a period of two years.

In 1999, Mark Rutland was asked to become the new president of Southeastern University of the Assemblies of God in Lakeland, Florida At that time, Southeastern University was struggling financially, facing many maintenance issues, and was suffering from declining enrollment.

Mark Rutland's selection came about after he was recommended by the university's presidential search committee to the board of trustees.

Mark Rutland was selected from a pool of more than 130 applicants to lead the university and he assumed the office of president on July 1,2009, taking the reins of the institution from Interim President Dr Ralph Fagin, who was appointed to the position following the resignation of Richard Roberts in 2007.

Mark Rutland initially told ORU he was not interested in the position, and would not even submit a resume, but was eventually persuaded to accept the post by ORU board chairman Mart Green.

In 2011, Mark Rutland announced he would leave ORU within two years; his successor, Billy Wilson, was chosen in January 2013 and took over the position on July 1,2013.

Mark Rutland has remained active as the founder and director of the National Institute on Christian Leadership, a one-year educational program for ministry and business leaders.