Pastor Mark A. McCleary
Ph.D., D. Min., M. Div., B.A.
Summary of Qualifications
Doctor McCleary has been a leader and role model of Christian values striving to inspire positive life-style transformation in others for 46+ years until his official retirement from pastoral ministry, July 1, 2022. As the Founder and President of Mark McCleary Ministries, he now reinvests his experience in church leadership and community outreach via 3MMM’s VISION, MISSION, and OBJECTIVES (Review MY Story, below). Doctor McCleary continues to inspire spiritual and social growth of many of his congregants, beneficiaries, contacts, etc. to be FATP—Faithful, Available, Teachable, and Productive. Surf this entire website, share it with your family and friends; use it as your initial point of contact and for resources that help you acquire a Bible-base education, discover, design, and deploy your God-given gifts to His glory and yours and others edification.
My Story, My Desire, and My Resume
I have pastored churches from Kansas to Missouri to New Jersey to Pennsylvania, DC, and Maryland, from where I retired from organizational oversight July 1, 2022. Yet, after 46+ years, I am fully engaged in Christian ministry via Mark McCleary Ministries by means of congregational and community education, gift discovery and implementation. My VISION, MISSION statements, respectively, are: “To be recognized as a good pastor by my congregants and a helpful and accessible chaplain to their various communities,” and “To be a role of Christian values to inspire positive lifestyle transformation in others.”
I am wiser today than when I first started ministry in 1974. God has gifted me with a
wealth of skills for helping individuals and groups improve their God-given talents. This candid confession expresses my desire to be “glocal”—have local impact with global outreach. There are many, unchurched and “churched” (inactive or lethargic) people who need mentoring and assistance as they pilgrimage in time and space and want to live productively and meaningfully in this present world toward eternity.
My STORY, DESIRE, and RESUME can be realized in you supporting and participating
3MMM, Inc. as your opportunity to learn Bible-based values and principles that help you discover, design, and deploy your God-given gifts to His glory, and yours and others edification.
Surf this website and learn about me and the many ministry offerings that will
empower you to hear God say to you, “Well done!” Until we meet in person, stay
FATP—Faithful, Available, Teachable, and Productive!
Professional History
Associate Evangelist, (Kansas City, MO & KS, respectively), 1974
Pastorate, Topeka, KS & Sedalia, MO Seventh-day Adventist Church District, 1974-75
Pastorate, Shiloh (Leavenworth, KS) & St. Joseph, MO Seventh-day Adventist Church District, 1978-80
Pastorate, Park Avenue & Kirkwood, MO Seventh-day Adventist Church District, 1980-83
Pastorate, First Seventh-day Adventist Church (Montclair, NJ), 1985-92
Pastorate, Southwestern Seventh-day Adventist Church (Philadelphia, PA), 1992-2001
Pastorate, First Seventh-day Adventist Church (Washington, DC), 2001-2013
Associate Minister/Christian Education Coordinator, Philadelphia Baptist Church, (Philadelphia, PA), 2012
Pastorate, Liberty Seventh-day Adventist Church (Windsor Mill, MD), 2014–present