[2] Mark has traveled extensively throughout the third world as an amateur anthropologist with a special interest in the poor.
[citation needed] Featured by BusinessWeek in a November 3, 1986 article titled These Traders Made All-Star By Hitting Singles.
[citation needed] Mark grew up in the poverty of Afghanistan, the deep south of Texas, and an Oregon-coast logging town.
[citation needed] Mark was at one point a theology student[3] and also worked as a night-shift prison guard before he became one of the founding members of C.R.T.
Mark is a member of Board of Directors of Warm Blankets Orphan Care International and Southern Evangelical Seminary and Bible College.