Pastoral Relationship in Action

Mark Vincenti transitions to full-time campus pastor

STORY BY ABIGAIL RUSIE, ’22

Vincenti categorizes his responsibilities in four big “buckets”:

1. Overseeing chapel and formations opportunities for our campus community

2. Leadership development through our Sojourner (previously Campus Ministry Coordinator) program and within student groups

3. Pastoral care

4. Strengthening our bond with the United Brethren denomination and UB churches

“Having Mark on staff allows us the opportunity to not only continue the great work of engaging and serving our traditional undergraduate student body but frees me up to look at the other components of our University, developing the Spiritual Formation Plan for Peoria, for Fort Wayne OTD, for our online students and our graduate students,” said Vice President for Spiritual Formation and Intercultural Enrichment Rev. Arthur Wilson.

This fall, Huntington University was pleased to welcome Rev. Mark Vincenti as our new campus pastor in the Center for Spiritual Formation and Intercultural Enrichment. Vincenti comes most recently from Emmanuel Community Church in Fort Wayne but has been part of the HU community for a long time as an alumnus from the Class of 1999. He is well-known to many of our students due to his involvement as assistant coach for the soccer teams. He has also led HU students in Bible studies, offering mentorship and encouragement.

Vincenti believes God has placed Huntington in a unique position for spiritual impact that touches our world for the glory of God.

“God is literally gathering people to this University from down the street and across the world and sending people from HU to those same places,” Vincenti said. “If students come here and catch fire for Jesus in a way they never have before and leave equipped to live out a vibrant faith in Christ, they will take that wherever they go, setting Gospel fires to the ends of the earth.”

Vincenti invites readers to pray for the Spirit of God to continue to infuse Huntington University with His purpose and power in increasing measure and for a powerful move of God that results in changed people who enter God’s Kingdom mission and makes His glory known around the world.

More About Mark

Tea or Coffee? – Tea over coffee, hot chocolate over both Early Riser or Night Owl? – I have been both…Early Riser right now

Driver or Passenger? – Driver

Board Game or Video Game? – Board game, though I was pretty good on the Atari 2600

EReader or Actual Book? – Actual

Favorite Fiction Book – Chronicles of Narnia series by C.S. Lewis

Favorite Animated Movie – Either Frozen (Disney dad) or Spiderman, Into the Spider-Verse (dad of a little dude)

Who would play you in a movie? – Barry Allen/The Flash