Mark Balmer is the senior pastor of Calvary Chapel of Melbourne in West Melbourne, Florida.  He was a hospital pharmacy director for twenty-five years before God called him to plant a new church in the Melbourne-Palm Bay area in 1992.  Since that time, God has blessed the congregation with tremendous growth.  Today more than six thousand people come to worship each weekend on the thirty-seven acre campus.  Many others watch the services live on the World Wide Web.

God has gifted Mark as a pastor-teacher with a practical, compelling, and easily-grasped style of communicating the truths of God’s Word.  His messages regularly challenge both the Christian and the unbeliever.  On a typical weekend, dozens of people rededicate their lives to Christ or make a first-time decision to accept Christ as their Savior. Mark’s teachings are available on CD, MP3, and DVD and are heard daily on the radio program, “Lessons for Living.”  He has written two books, Who’s Rocking The Boat and Prison Break.

Mark is supported in his ministry by his wife of forty years, Lynda, who adds her own special God-given gifts to the Melbourne fellowship, and has two children.