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Dewey and friends 10 13 with pastor mark tross
Mark Tross is a Christian pastor, radio and television personality, columnist, and former disk jockey residing in New Mexico, USA.
Contents
- Dewey and friends 10 13 with pastor mark tross
- Open Doors Part I
- Early life and radio career
- Ministry
- Life outside the Church
- Ancestry
- References
Tross is the former pastor at Victory Church Of God, located at 222 East Monroe Avenue in Grants, New Mexico 87020, Tross is the former host of Ask The Pastor, New Mexico's longest running live radio call-in program, founded by Marvin Capehart on KKIM radio, Abequerque, NM
Tross is also a former host of the radio show The Bible Factor, formerly called New Mexico News & Views. He first started this program with Pastor Larry Moss, formerly of Heights Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Albuquerque,
Tross wrote The Faith Column in The Cibola Beacon Newspaper each month and he also participated in a weekly television program, 'Cross Culture', hosted by Haskell Hallmark, Preacher at The Rio Rancho Church Of Christ. Mark has appeared on KOB Television in Albuquerque, discussing the National Day Of Prayer, as he and his wife Juliet were to be the NM State Coordinators. He has appeared on Dewey & Friends in Albuquerque and God Answers Prayer in Santa Fe (the first two 24-hour television stations in the United States) and he has been heard on various stations over the years in Albuquerque. Mark performed the Aaronic Blessing for Pastor John Hagee of Christians United For Israel at the 25th Anniversary Celebration of KDAZ Radio. Mark hosted the Cross Culture NM Radio Broadcast on KKNS, 1310 AM in Albuquerque, NM, heard 2-5:30PM MT every M-F, from January–September 2015 and is presently an Ordained Bishop for Church of God, Cleveland, TN in Rio Rancho, NM, coordinates for NM Prayer Connect and hosts the Cross Culture NM YouTube program.
Tross also managed an event, "Walk for Life", to raise money to purchase an ultrasound machine for the Care-Net Pregnancy Center of Rio Rancho.
Open Doors (Part I)
Early life and radio career
Tross was born in Newark, New Jersey, May 8, 1957 to Marian Claire and Frederick Tross. He attended Passaic Valley Regional High, graduating in 1975. He then attended Connecticut School of Broadcasting. Tross landed his first radio gig at WKMB, Stirling Country, as a Country Music DJ in 1980. He produced his own radio program in Elmira, NY, called The Number 1 Hits Of All Time.
Ministry
Tross made a number of guest appearances on another radio program, Two Nice Jewish Boys, hosted by Gary Selman and Jonathan Cahn, author of The Harbinger, on WWDJ. Tross was Assistant Pastor for Cahn at Beth Israel Messianic Center in Lodi, NJ and later in Garfield, New Jersey, in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
In 1982 Tross became a Christian and was licensed under Pastor Charlie Rizzo, from Maranatha, Church Of The Nazarene and helped establish the Harvest Christian Fellowship Of New York City, with Pastor Mike Finizio.
After moving to New Mexico, Mark was licensed through the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel in Rio Rancho, was Pastor of Gladstone Church, Overseer of Ekklesia Outreach in Rio Rancho, until he moved to Grants in March 2012. Tross served as Foursquare Missions Coordinator for Foursquare and also oversaw the Simple Church initiative for that organization, under its president, Pastor Jack Hayford. http://ekklesiaoutreach.weebly.com
Mark appeared in The Simple Church Documentary, and has authored a book, The Greatest Of All Songs, a commentary on The Song Of Solomon. http://www.whatissimplechurch.com http://simplechurchfellowship.weebly.com
Life outside the Church
Tross retired from Pathmark, a supermarket company based in NJ, where he was a manager for 23 years. Prior to that he managed for Quick-Chek Food Stores and worked for Shop-Rite supermarket in Little Falls, NJ, where he lived during his high school years. He has one married daughter, Aisha, and two grandsons.
Ancestry
Tross's ancestor Eliab Byrom worked with David Brainerd, a missionary to the Native American Indians, during The First Great Awakening. Eliab established a church in Amwell, NJ, where famed Preacher George Whitefield spoke, and his father, Ebinezer Byrom, established a Presbyterian Church in Morristown, NJ. Both are still functioning today. Eliab is discussed in David Brainerd's Diary, edited by Jonathan Edwards, first President of Princeton University.