About

Our Mission

Apologetics for the Church exists to equip millions of Christians worldwide with the confidence and skills to effectively engage anyone they meet with the gospel of Christ by defending and proclaiming the Christian faith.

Core Values

• Strengthening the confidence of believers to know that the Christian faith is true.
• Making effective engagement with unbelievers accessible to every believer.
• Winsomely drawing unbelievers to Jesus by answering their intellectual questions and their heart concerns.
• Encouraging believers to boldly look for opportunities to engage unbelievers in conversation that leads to Jesus.
• Providing answers to the most challenging objections raised against the Christian faith today.
• Building our apologetic methodology on the foundation of the Scriptures and orthodox theology

About Mark Farnham

Mark Farnham is the Founder and Director of Apologetics for the Church. Mark Farnham has been teaching Apologetics in local churches for almost twenty years. His study of Apologetics has opened doors to interact with all kinds of people. He is an engaging speaker who combines simple, clear explanations with gripping personal illustrations from fascinating encounters with nonbelievers of all kinds.

Mark served for seven years as a senior pastor in the very skeptical environment of New England. He understands the frustration of trying so many “Come and See” events with little apparent fruit. By training church members to confidently “Go and Tell,” apologetics strengthens the faith and witness of the entire church. His training seminars are aimed at ordinary church members who want to become prepared and confident to share their faith with anyone they meet.

Mark is the director of the Master of Arts in Christian Apologetics program at Lancaster Bible College and Capital Seminary in Lancaster, PA. Mark earned a PhD in Apologetics from Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. He holds a Master of Theology degree in New Testament from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and a Master of Divinity degree from Calvary Baptist Seminary. He is the author of Every Believer Confident: Apologetics for the Ordinary Christian (Deep River, 2019), and coauthor of Talking About Ethics: A Conversational Approach to Moral Dilemmas (Kregel, 2021) and Talking About Worldviews: A Conversational Approach to Philosophical Questions (Kregel, forthcoming).

Speaking Schedule

Jeffrey Mindler, Research Assistant

Jeff was an atheist in high school when he and several friends became believers in Jesus Christ. Jeff earned his B.S. and his M.A. in Counseling at Lancaster Bible College and a Master of Arts in Theological Studies at Union Theological College in Belfast, Ireland. Jeff has pursued an intense study of apologetics for the last ten years, frequently engaging unbelievers with the gospel on the streets of Lancaster, PA. He serves as an adjunct Professor of Apologetics at Lancaster Bible College | Capital Seminary, as well as serving as an admissions counselor at Capital Seminary & Graduate School.

Jeff’s role is to assist the director by researching and summarizing the latest scholarship to be used in presentations and written pieces. Jeff also leads some of the intern training and coordinates events.