In 1990 Mark and Dana were approved as World Baptist Fellowship missionaries to Brazil where they served one term. After that time they served for one term in the field of New Zealand.  They are now returning to Brazil.

Mark was led to Christ by his father when he was thirteen years old. Dana was saved in church at age fourteen.

Mark and Dana are 1990 graduates of Arlington Baptist College. They were married at Trentman Avenue Baptist Church of Fort Worth, Texas in 1980.

Their sending church is the Pleasantview Baptist Church of Arlington formerly the Trentman Avenue Baptist Church.