Lead Pastors & Founders
Mark & Tiffany Ivey.
Mark grew up in Houlton, Maine, in a family that ran hotels and restaurants, so he was working in them from the time he was a kid. He went on into music and radio, and graduated from Southeastern University. Tiffany grew up in a fishing village on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, in the commercial fishing business — farm animals, horses, and a house always full of siblings and cousins.
They met in 1990, on her twenty-second birthday, when Mark came through her church as a traveling preacher — and both of them heard, separately, that they were going to end up married. Mark sent her a letter in the mail, and soon after their first date, they were engaged and married.
They spent the next years on the road with Reality Outreach Ministries, touring a production called Heaven’s Gates and Hell’s Flames that was put on inside local churches with volunteers from each congregation. They joined as the eighth team in 1993.
Read their full story
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The Team
The people who lead Christ Alive.
Click any photo to see more about that person. The icons on each card go to their Facebook and Instagram — and, for the ones who travel to speak, a form to invite them to your event.
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Christ Alive is always looking for staff and volunteers who love Jesus, love this church, and want to give the next season of their life to the local church in Newton. We currently have a handful of open paid roles plus dozens of volunteer needs.