Introducing Mark Pugh

Mark Pugh is the General Superintendent of the Elim Pentecostal Church, a growing Movement of Christian congregations in the UK and Ireland.

Mark hails from Porth, South Wales. He was already on the ministry team in Derby when he entered the Elim ministry in 1998, continuing to serve there until 2001 when he was stationed to Birmingham City Church.

In 2002 Mark was appointed to the National Youth Team and in 2004, having pioneered Serious4God, Elim’s National Youth Ministry, he was appointed Director of Serious4God. A number of national youth events such as The Gathering were birthed under Mark’s tenure in the role.

In 2013, having accepted the call of God back into local church ministry, Mark relinquished the role of Director of Serious4God and was appointed as lead pastor in Rediscover Church Exeter. Under Mark’s leadership the church has seen significant growth, and he has pioneered a number of initiatives such as South West Awake, a prayer event that gathers thousands of people, and the Church Planting Academy which equips and releases people to plant churches.

Having been appointed to the National Leadership Team in 2010 Mark served two terms until 2018 when he made the decision to withdraw from the Team in order to concentrate on his local church ministry. He has connections across the wider Church and regularly speaks into other streams and has served on the Board of a number of other Charities.

Mark is married to Nita and they have three grown up children and one grandchild.