Associational Leader’s Retreat

Jeff has master’s and DMin degrees from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY. He and his wife started churches in remote northern Michigan, the suburbs of Orlando, and in rural middle Tennessee. Then, Jeff served the West Virginia Convention of Southern Baptists overseeing church starting and evangelism. Afterwards, he became the executive Director of the Montana Southern Baptist Convention. For 13 years, the Clarks served in East Asia doing research, evangelism, and training rural church planters. They currently live in Richmond, VA, and Jeff serves as the Director for Wheaton College Billy Graham Center’s Rural Matters Institute and as the Global Rural Researcher for the IMB.