Mark and Hannah Martinez
Mark Martinez was born March 28, 1989 to Ken and Sheri Martinez in
Stillwater, OK, where his family attended Bible Baptist Church under
Pastor Sam Davison. When Mark was six years old, his family moved to
Longmont, Colorado and planted the Rocky Mountain Bible Baptist
Church. At age eight, while attending Silver State Baptist Youth
Camp, Mark acknowledged his sin before God and received Christ as
his personal Savior after hearing a message about Hell by Bro. Dave
McCracken. Mark was later baptized by his father at Rocky Mountain
Bible Baptist Church. While in high school, Mark answered the call
to youth ministry and began attending Heartland Baptist Bible
College in Oklahoma City, OK in the fall of 2008. He joined
Southwest Baptist Church, where he served for two years under Pastor
Sam Davison and two years under Pastor Jason Gaddis. During
Mark's freshman year at college while attending the Heartland
National Church Planting Conference, the Lord began to work on
Mark's heart about the calling to church planting. After praying and
seeking the Lord's Leadership, Bro. Mark surrendered to that calling
in July of 2009. In 2011, the Lord began to burden Mark through his
personal devotional time about planting a church in Boulder,
Colorado after reading how Christ had saved those in Corinth who had
been given over to the same lifestyles of immorality that are found
in Boulder. In 2011, Mark met Hannah Wallace, and they were married
May 31, 2013. They now have two beautiful children, Jenna who is
four years old, and Josiah who is one year old. Upon
graduation from Heartland in 2012, Mark returned to his home church
and began serving as youth pastor. The Lord has blessed Mark's
ministry at Rocky Mountain, where many of the teens they served are
attending Bible College and are preparing for the ministry. After
years of seeking the Lord's leadership regarding church planting, in
January of 2019, the Lord confirmed His calling in Mark and Hannah's
heart to plant a church in Boulder, CO. They are excited to embark
on this journey of faith, to see souls saved, baptized, and
discipled, and to see God plant a new church in the city of Boulder,
CO
Hannah was born on July 1, 1992, to her parents, Mike and Mary
Wallace, in Lawton, OK. Her dad was a captain in the US army at the
time and was stationed at Fort Sill. Shortly after she was born,
her dad made the decision to finish his military career and move to
Akron, OH where her parents began to help a church plant in the
inner city. At the age of 9, God directed her family to become
members at the First Baptist Church of Kenmore in Akron, OH, where
the late Dr. Rick Fox pastored. Throughout Hannah's childhood and
young teenage life, God allowed her and her family to be a part of
many ministry opportunities such as the bus ministry, fair ministry,
prison ministry, and music ministry. At the ages of 12 and 13,
Hannah and her family took two missions trips to Juarez, Mexico with
Bearing Precious Seed, El Paso. God spoke to her parents very
clearly and called their family to become church planting
missionaries in Mexico City. Even through all of her involvement in
church ministry life, Hannah struggled with her assurance of
salvation and made the decision to receive Christ as her personal
Savior during a Friday night youth activity on December 5, 2008. It
was also at the the age of 16 that she and her family began
deputation. Hannah graduated in 2010 prior to the completion of her
family's deputation, enrolled at Heartland Baptist Bible College in
Oklahoma City, OK, and also became a member at the Southwest Baptist
Church pastored by Bro. Jason Gaddis. It was there that she
met her husband, Mark Martinez, and they were married after her
graduation on May 31, 2013. She joined her husband at Rocky
Mountain Bible Baptist Church in Longmont, CO, where he had already
been serving as youth pastor. They've continued in both the
youth and music ministries for 7 years. God has also blessed
them with two precious children, Jenna and Josiah. Hannah had
surrendered her life to the Lord back as a teenager during youth
camp at Commonground Baptist Camp in Butler, PA where Bro. Kurt
Skelly had been preaching that particular week. Then through
God's evident leading of her relationship with Mark during college,
God began to also burden her heart for church planting in the
northern Colorado area. In January of 2019 at the Heartland
Baptist Bible College's National Church Planting Conference, God
made His call clear to both Mark and Hannah that He desired for them
to plant a church in Boulder, CO. The Martinez family is
excited about this new chapter in God's ministry for them and are
eager to see God's continued working and plan for both their lives
and the people of Boulder, CO.
PASTOR'S EMAIL:
msmartinez89@icloud.com