Staff and Leadership

From a family photo, 2010

The Rev. Mark Lauer is the Senior Pastor (Rector) at Christ the King Anglican Church. He has been married to Shawnie for 21 years and is the father of Morgan, a six-year-old first grader.  Mark is an extroverted people-person and a dreamer sort of visionary. He loves team-building and working alongside others to accomplish mission.  “What gets me out of bed every morning, “Mark says, “is knowing that my ministry is used by God to help transform people’s lives for eternity, because ‘here and now’ they come into relationship with the living Lord Jesus Christ.”

“This looks
just like him!”
by Colin, age 6

As people-oriented as he is, Mark loves solitude and quiet time for reflection and study, too. He also plays the guitar, is a licensed pilot, was a roadie for a band, and has far more songs on his iPhone than games.  Mark worked in the technology market of Silicon Valley for 14 years and ran his own international sales consulting for 6 of those years, serving mostly Japanese and Asian clients seeking to establish sales channels in the USA. In 2004 co-founded a coaching center for life coaching, relationship coaching, and sales coaching (www.centerforrelationship.com). In the 90′s Mark also began working at-large as a pastor in the local community for ministry outreach to those with no church home (www.pastormarklauer.com).  He has earned degrees in psychology at Oregon State University and theology at Fuller Seminary, and he has done post-graduate work at Santa Clara University. He has served as an associate pastor at Calvary Church of Los Gatos, Menlo Park Presbyterian Church, South Hills Community Church (San Jose), and on the church planting team of Cornerstone Community Church (San Jose). You can email Mark at mark@ctkanglican.com.

The Rev. Carole Anderson serves as Deacon and is a life-long Anglican. She was baptized and confirmed at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Saratoga, California. She moved to Christ the King Church in 1994 and served on the vestry and was trained and active in Victorious Ministries through Christ, a prayer/deliverance ministry. She served in the music ministry at Christ the King until she departed in 1999 to help start a new church in Santa Cruz– Good Shepherd Fellowship. She was ordained a deacon in November, 1999, and served at Good Shepherd until January 2003. Upon the death of her husband, she returned to Christ the King. She received a certificate of completion from Veritas College in September, 2005. She has a heart for Anglican traditions and loves the depth offered through liturgical worship. Her ministry is to serve the body of Christ at Christ the King Anglican Church as their deacon. She has two grown children, two grandchildren and three cats. You can email Carole at carole@ctkanglican.com

Our Vestry is comprised of very talented and dedicated people who love the Lord Jesus and who are committed to serving together as our parish moves into the next phase of our life. They are:

Nicky Huls (Senior Warden), Carl Steeves (Secretary), Jackie Flannery (Junior Warden), Charity Silkebakken, and Brian Miller. Cindy Miller serves as Treasurer.