Mark Tross
Mark Tross is a Christian pastor, radio and television personality, columnist, and former disk jockey residing in New Mexico, USA. Mark Tross. Tross is the current pastor at Victory Church Of God, in Grants, New Mexico, Tross is host of Ask The Pastor, New Mexico's longest running live radio call-in program, founded by Marvin Capehart. Tross is also host of the radio show The Bible Factor, formerly called New Mexico News & Views. He first started this program with Pastor Larry Moss, formerly of Heights Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Albuquerque, Tross writes The Faith Column in The  Cibola Beacon Newspaper each month and he also participates in a weekly television program, 'Cross Culture', hosted by Haskell Hallmark, Preacher at The Rio Rancho Church Of Christ. Mark has appeared on KOB Television in Albuquerque, discussing the National Day Of Prayer, as he and his wife Juliet were to be the NM State Coordinators. He has appeared on Dewey & Friends in Albuquerque and God Answers Prayer in Santa Fe (the first two 24 hour television stations in the United States) and he has been heard on various stations over the years in Albuquerque. Mark performed the Aaronic Blessing for  Pastor John Hagee of Christians United for Israel at the 25th Anniversary Celebration of KDAZ Radio. Tross also managed an event, "Walk for Life", to raise money to purchase an ultrasound machine for the Care-Net Pregnancy Center of Rio Rancho. Early life and radio career. Tross was born in Newark, New Jersey, May 8, 1957 to Marian Claire and Frederick Tross. He attended Passaic Valley Regional High School, graduating in 1975. He then attended Connecticut School of Broadcasting. Tross landed his first radio gig at WKMB, Stirling Country, as a Country Music DJ in 1980. He produced his own  radio program in Elmira, NY, called The Number 1 Hits Of All Time. Ministry. Tross made a number of guest appearances on another radio program, Two Nice Jewish Boys, hosted by Gary Selman and Jonathan Cahn, author of The Harbinger, on WWDJ. Tross was Assistant Pastor for Cahn at Beth Israel Messianic Center in Lodi, NJ and later in Garfield, NJ, in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In 1982 Tross became a Christian and was licensed under Pastor Charlie Rizzo, from Maranatha, Church Of The Nazarene and helped establish the Harvest Christian Fellowship Of New York City, with Pastor  Mike Finizio. After moving to New Mexico, Mark was licensed through the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel in Rio Rancho, was Pastor of Gladstone Church, Overseer of Ekklesia Outreach in Rio Rancho, until he moved to Grants in March 2012. Tross served as Foursquare Missions Coordinator for Foursquare and also oversaw the Simple Church initiative for that organization, under its president, Pastor Jack Hayford. Mark appeared in The Simple Church Documentary, and has authored a book, The Greatest Of All Songs, a commentary on The Song Of Solomon. Life outside the Church. Tross retired from Pathmark, a supermarket company  based in NJ, where he was a manager for 23 years. Prior to that he managed for Quick-Chek Food Stores and worked for Shop-Rite supermarket in Little Falls, New Jersey, where he lived during his high school years. He has one married daughter, Aisha, and two grandsons. Ancestry. Tross's ancestor Eliab Byrom worked with David Brainerd, a missionary to the Native American Indians, during The First Great Awakening. Eliab established a church in Amwell, NJ, where famed Preacher George Whitefield spoke, and his father, Ebinezer Byrom, established a Presbyterian Church in Morristown, NJ. Both are still functioning  today. Eliab is discussed in David Brainerd's Diary, edited by Jonathan Edwards, first President of Princeton University.