Mark Poshak, Youth Director

What year you joined the staff at 4Cs:
2005.

What you do at 4Cs:
The youth guy behind Amanda Kingry and the other interns who usually do more work than me. I’m in charge of the High Impact service for Jr. High and Sr. High youth, as well as running youth programs, small groups, and Chipotle runs.

Life History:
Born and raised in St. Louis, MO. Not unlike Jesus himself, little is known of Mark in his younger years before creating the smash hit band “The Phalanges” a STOMP-esque band which dominated the U.S. for nearly 5 years. I studied the art of Division I Basketball at the University of Kansas and somehow received a Bachelors of Science in Marketing and Communication. O worked with Young Life, high school and young-adult ministries in St. Louis while working construction and playing in a real band called Precho.

What you enjoy doing on your day off:
Working on my house, watching college basketball, skiing, watching college football with Strider, working on my house, taking photographs, eating Chipotle, playing music, figuring out my new Mac, trying to read some good books, working on my house, hiking in the mountains, breathing mountain air, fighting off allergies, visiting my new niece and nephew.

List one of your most interesting memories/experiences:
During college I won a basketball shoot-out at the University of Kansas during half-time of a basketball game. In front of 16,000 people I hit 5 three pointers in a row to win free tuition, which of course they didn’t give me because I was graduating, so I gladly accepted the 2 free plane tickets and flew to Vegas with my roommate the day after graduating. Or the time that I went to Africa to spend a year of mission work only to be sent home 3 weeks later due to a coup d’etat, where a group of rebel soldiers overthrew the government and created a war that is still going on today, years later.

What is something that not many people know about you:
I constantly talk in my sleep and at one point attempted to teach my parents how to serve a tennis ball in my sleep. I’ve never played tennis. I occasionally sleep walk and once rearranged all the plants in my house, which I thought was a dream until I found one in my room.