Mark Hobafcovich is an Romanian-American pastor, leader, and author whose passion is fulfilling the Great Commission by making disciples of Jesus Christ. He spent his formative years in the then-communist Eastern European country of Romania until on a cold December night in 1980 he defected from the tyranny of communism to freedom. Details of his defection from the tyranny of communism to his surrender to Christ, chronicling his journey from Defector to Disciple are in the book he wrote with Paul Dragu, a journalist living in the state of Wisconsin: Defector: A True Story of Tyranny, Liberty and Purpose.

He studied in Australia at Victoria Bible College in Melbourne and Baptist Theological College of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, and began preaching the gospel at twenty-two years old (1982), and served as pastor, missionary church planter, missions strategist and since 1997 has been serving as kingdom catalyst with the North American Mission Board (NAMB), the domestic mission agency of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) with responsibilities of ministries in the United States and Canada. SBC is the largest evangelical group in the United States with close to fifteen million members organized in about fifty thousand congregations. NAMB is headquartered in Alpharetta, a suburb north of Atlanta, Georgia.

Throughout the years, Mark has been involved in mission work in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, and South America. He firmly believes that making disciples is not only Jesus Christ’s last commandment, but as His disciples, it is our priority. Mark is married to Christine, a training developer and they have two married daughters, one who lives with her husband outside Atlanta, Georgia, and the other lives with her husband in New York City. Mark and Christine live in Northeast Georgia, on the outskirts of Atlanta, Georgia. 

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