Concordia University, St. Paul Athletics

A three-sport All-Conference athlete for the Comets, Mark Marxhausen helped lead each of his teams to high levels of success in his Concordia career.
 
He opened his first fall as an All-UMAC honorable mention running back on the UMAC & Twin River Conference Championship football team, a squad that averaged 425 yards per game while outscoring opponents 286-to-129. The result was a 9-1 overall record with the corresponding .900 winning percentage still standing as a record over 40 years later. He was the team’s second leading rusher with 686 yards as a freshman.
 
Later in his career as a student-athlete, Marxhausen would go on to earn All-Conference honors three times with the Comets baseball program in his sophomore, junior and senior seasons. He helped the Comets qualify for a pair of NLCAA Tournaments, finishing third in the nation in 1978.
 
He also excelled on the pitch, helping the Comets win the NLCAA National Championship in 1980 while earning All-Conference honors.
 
Following his undergraduate career at Concordia, he went to Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne, Indiana where he earned a Master of Divinity. In his leadership in the church, he served as Associate Pastor at St. John’s Lutheran Church (Port Washington, Wisconsin) and Senior Pastor at Messiah Lutheran Church (Lakeville), New Vision in the WORD International (Rosemount), Calvary Worship Center (St. Louis Park) and Lutheran Church of the Master (Brooklyn Center) from 1985 to 2017 between the five callings.
 
In 2013, he earned a Doctor of Ministry degree from Minnesota Graduate School of Theology in Brooklyn Center.
 
He’s currently the Interim Associate Pastor at Resurrection Lutheran (Monticello) and since July of 2017 has served as Missionary to Papua New Guinea and Argentina where he serves to train, equip and encourage indigenous pastors and church leaders. He has started between 75-and-80 churches in Papua New Guinea, has served apostolically in PNG, Argentina, Peru, Kazakhstan, in the Amazon, Brazil, Mexico, Canada as well as the United States, planting churches, encouraging pastors and equipping them to preach the Gospel.
 
He also works with missionaries worldwide with International Ministerial Fellowship in Minnetonka Beach, Minnesota.
 
A native of Mayer, Minnesota, Marxhausen and his wife, Julie, reside in Oak Grove, Minnesota. They have four grown children, Kyle (Janine), Meghan (Seborn), Kaleena (Billy), Keturah (Levi) and fourteen grandchildren. Mark enjoys woodworking, fishing, golfing and officiating wrestling.