Mark Jobe to become president of Moody Bible Institute
Jobe comes to the school a year after all three top leaders resigned amid tensions around the school’s theological standards, finances, and treatment of students of color.
Mark Jobe. Photo courtesy of New Life Community Church.
A year after the three top leaders of Moody Bible Institute all stepped down on the same day, the school has a new president, Mark Jobe, 54, who will begin in January.
A graduate of Moody Bible Institute and Moody Theological Seminary, Jobe recalled being overwhelmed when he arrived in Chicago at age 17 from a small town in Spain where his parents were missionaries. He recalled advice he heard: “The nations have come to the cities. You reach the cities, you reach the nations.”
Jobe has been pastor of the New Life Community Church, which has 27 locations in Chicago and suburbs.
