Mark Rutland
| Mark Rutland | |
|---|---|
| 3rd President of Oral Roberts University | |
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In office July 1, 2009 – 2012 |
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| Preceded by |
Richard Roberts Ralph Fagin (acting) |
| Succeeded by | William M. Wilson |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
November 5, 1947 Commerce, Texas, US |
| Spouse(s) | Alison Rutland |
| Children | Travis Rutland, two daughters |
| Residence | Tulsa, Oklahoma, US |
| Alma mater |
University of Maryland, College Park Emory University California Graduate School of Theology |
| Profession |
missionary evangelist |
| Website | National Institute of Christian Leadership |
Mark Rutland (born November 5, 1947) is a missionary, evangelist, ordained minister of the International Ministerial Fellowship, and president of Global Servants. He was the third President of Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Prior to his election as President of Oral Roberts University, Rutland served as the President of Southeastern University of the Assemblies of God in Lakeland, Florida, from 1999 to 2009. Additionally he has served as Pastor of Calvary Assembly of God in Orlando, Florida, and as an Associate Pastor at Mount Paran Church of God in Atlanta, Georgia. He is the founder of Global Servants, formerly known as the Trinity Foundation, an organization centered on missions and evangelism around the world, and the House of Grace, a home for tribal girls threatened by sexual slavery in Chiang Rai City, Thailand. He also has a thirty-minute syndicated radio program entitled "Herald of Joy". Rutland is married to Alison Rutland (née Permenter) and has three children.
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. He met his future wife, Alison, in his junior year of high school, where she was a member of the cheerleading squad. Upon graduation from high school, Rutland entered the University of Maryland, College Park initially to earn a degree in public relations and to pursue a career in politics (Rutland, 1987 p. 2). Eventually, however, he began to pursue a career in Christian ministry and upon graduation from the University of Maryland, he enrolled in the Candler School of Theology at Emory University. Rutland credits this change in direction to several supernatural experiences that took place in his youth. He became a born-again Christian while attending an evangelical youth camp in Blue Lake, Alabama, and it was there that Rutland believes to have received a mandate from God calling him to be a preacher (Rutland, 1987 p. 4). Some years later, his wife Alison, also a born-again Christian, indicated that she too had received a word from God that 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.
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