Mark Finley

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mark Finley
Mark Finley
Born	? City, New York
Occupation	Pastor, Evangelist, Author and Vice President of Evangelism for the General Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church
Spouse	Ernestine Finley

Mark Finley is the former speaker/director of It Is Written (from 1991–2004), where he traveled around the world as a televangelist, and spoke on the weekly television show It Is Written. He was the first Seventh-day Adventist pastor to do a satellite evangelistic series. He currently serves as a vice-president for the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and has written over 70 published books.

Evangelism is where Finley made his mark on the world, presenting more than 150 evangelistic meeting series around the globe in about 80 countries with resulting baptisms numbering in the thousands. His best known association is as a television speaker: for the current series Experience Hope, a weekly broadcast of the Hope Channel; for the It Is Written telecast of 20 years; and also for the first two NET evangelism satellite series broadcast in North America. He will again be televised for the fourth time in the autumn of 2008 as speaker for the annual North American NET series. He has preached 17 NET series broadcast throughout the world. He uses his preaching and evangelism gifts to teach others in seminars, field schools and evangelism institutes. He has written more than 70 books, as well as numerous seminar presentations, major evangelistic series, teaching manuals, and magazine articles. His recorded seminars and series, available for purchase in various media formats, numbers about 20. He also writes a series of Bible studies published monthly in Adventist World.

Finley and his wife, Ernestine “Teenie,” have teamed up in ministry throughout the years and also share a family of three grown children; Deborah, Rebecca, and Mark Jr.