Mark Rutland

Mark Rutland (born 1947) is a missionary, evangelist, ordained minister of the International Ministerial Fellowship, and the third and current President of Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was elected to that position following a vote by the Oral Roberts University Board of Trustees on January 28, 2009. His acceptance of the offer to become the university's president makes him the first person to hold that office who is not a member of the family of the institution's founder and first president: the evangelist and faith healer Oral Roberts. Prior to his election as President of Oral Roberts University, Rutland served as the President of Southeastern University of the Assemblies of God in Lakeland, Florida, from 1999 to 2009. Additionally he has served as Pastor of Calvary Assembly of God in Orlando, Florida, and as an Associate Pastor at Mount Paran Church of God in Atlanta, Georgia (Rutland, 1987 p. 177). He is the founder of Global Servants, formerly known as the Trinity Foundation, an organization centered on missions and evangelism around the world, and the House of Grace, a home for tribal girls threatened by sexual slavery in Chiang Rai City, Thailand. He also has a thirty-minute syndicated radio program entitled "Herald of Joy". Rutland is married to Alison Rutland (née Permenter) and has three children.