Pastor Mark Barbour

Born in Atlanta at Georgia Baptist Hospital and raised in Atlanta, at Grant Park until moving to Marietta, Georgia when he was 13, Pastor Mark is married to Dena Lynne, ‘the perfect pastor’s wife’, and serves as Lead Pastor/Teaching Elder at New Covenant Fellowship in Conyers, Georgia. Pastor Mark has served churches previously in North Carolina, Texas,

and Georgia. The Barbours have been blessed with three children,Bethany RuthAnne, married to Jordan Chisley, with grandbabies Addy and Millie; Bethany and Jordan are both Captains in the United Stated Army; Amanda Lynne, married to Joshua Wheeler, with three precious Wee-Ones: Havva Lynne, Zachariah, and Caleb Mark. The Wheelers have served for the past 14 years as missionaries to a Muslim country “across the Big Pond” and have been blessed to have founded two thriving Christian Churches! Matthew Caleb, their oldest, is married to Kimberly and they have contributed two vivaciously beautiful granddaughters to the fold, Ansley Jo and Georgia Lou, and they live in Michigan where Matthew hosts the “Good Morning Mid-Michigan TV Show” for ABCP  Channel 12, and Kimberly is the best Mom in

Michigan! Aside from being humbled to cherish and love Dena Lynne for 41 years, and being overly blessed with good children and beautiful grandbabies; Pastor Mark is formally educated and degreed in English Lit, Spanish, Theology, Linguistics, and Etymology. Pastor Mark is a longtime member and Officer of Rotary International, the largest community service

civic organization in the world. Pastor Mark enjoys Appalachian mountain culture, his Scottish Heritage, Blue Grass Music, old Country Music (Conway Twitty/Loretta Lynn/Tammy Wynette - the “heart-pulling-whiny-type-singing), Scottish Folk Storytelling, ‘Convention Style’ Gospel Music, Red Back Hymn Book ‘Sanging’ , and anything the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir sings. He is a fan of Louis LaMour westerns, Civil War History, Abe Lincoln, Red Skelton, Andy Griffith, and his wife’s exceptionally tasty down-home cooking. Pastor Mark finds perennial gardening, growing vegetables, pulling weeds, and pretending to fish very therapeutic and beneficial to maintaining his Christian disposition and positive outlook on his ‘exhortational-ministerial life’.  One of his greatest claims to fame is winning the “Marshall North Carolina Hog Hollerin Contest consecutively in 1982 and 1983. The Barbours make their home in Stone Mountain, GA.