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I drove up to MN to get coffee with Mark when I was in a really bad place. He met with me for hours and was very encouraging. But the…

I was 16 years old when I met Mark Darling. He wouldn’t recognize me if he saw me in a room but that’s irrelevant here. I walked into the Rock…

When I was in college, I was going through a dark time and I was very hard on myself for a few mistakes I had made. I decided to give…

My Mother had a Stroke while I was serving at Faithwalkers in MO. I remember sitting on the edge of the stage after rehearsal. Pastor Mark sat next to Me…

How has Mark Darling influenced my life? Well first let me give you a little background story about myself. I grew up as a child of and an alcoholic father….

I first heard Pastor Mark Darling in the late 1980s. I am from South Dakota and was visiting a friend in Minneapolis who took me to his church. I had…

This is what is amazing to me about Mark. I met him my first time back in 2009, at a “Dad’s Workshop” in Bloomington. I was new to the New…

I first heard Pastor Mark teach when he came to Colorado 7 years ago to teach at a retreat for the Rock (college ministry of my church) and his passion…

Mark Darling has impacted my life so much! I have only met him twice but I feel like I’ve known him forever. When I started walking with Christ I was…

I shudder to think what my life would be without Mark. I stumbled into The Rock as a college student–unmarried, childless, barely mature enough to be out on my own….