Mark Lau Branson

Dr. Mark Lau Branson (Ed.D. University of San Francisco, M.A. Claremont School of Theology), is the Homer L. Goddard Associate Professor of Ministry of the Laity at Fuller Theological Seminary. He has served in United Methodist and Presbyterian Churches as well as with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship and Theological Students Fellowship. Dr. Branson has served as a dean of an African-American bible college and his ordination is from an African-American Pentecostal church. He brings numerous, cross-cultural experiences in community organizing, economic development, consulting and teaching.  His focus is on forming congregations in which all God’s people become a learning, worshiping, missional community that values intergenerational and multicultural life and a full engagement with the people, cultures, and structures of the surrounding society.   DMin Courses
OD760 Leading Missional Churches: Cities, Culture, and Congregations

Missional Leadership Cohort

Selected Publications
Conflict and Context: Hermeneutics in the Americas
Memories, Hopes, and Conversations: Appreciative Inquiry and Congregational Change