District Leadership
For 17 years, Marc served as both an associate pastor and senior pastor of Fellowship Church. During that time, he implemented a vision and strategy that led to significant growth in church attendance, church staff and the expansion of the church worship center. Marc has also functioned in leadership roles with his district cluster group and pastoral care team.
Marc received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Misericordia University, Pennsylvania, and a Master of Arts in Religion and Church Ministries from Liberty University, Virginia. Before serving as a pastor, Marc worked for 12 years in the corporate sector, including time in South Florida. While volunteering in his local church in Florida, Marc was mentored by Glen Schrieber who helped him answer a full-time call to ministry.
Marc and his wife Stephanie have three children, two daughters who have recently married and their son who graduated from high school in 2022. They’re eager for what God has for them in this next chapter and aspire to serve and make an impact in the Southeast district.
Bruce Redmond serves as director of church planting for EFCA Southeast. Born and raised in the Chicago area. Married Jackie in 1970. Graduate of Moody Bible Institute with a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts in Ministry. Bruce has been a Sonlife Ministries trainer and a church health consultant and has served as a youth director, an associate pastor and a senior pastor (of a church that daughtered three new churches). Bruce had been a church planting missionary and the Director of Church Planting in the Rocky Mountain District. Bruce has been serving Church Planting for the EFCA in the Southeast since February 1, 2009. To serve this end even better, Bruce founded Planting Churches Ministries in 2017.
Jackie Redmond was raised in Wisconsin and Illinois and is the free-spirited third born of 8 children. She resides in Friendsville, Tennessee, with her husband, Bruce, who serves as the Director of Church Planting for the Southeast District. Jackie is also the executive director of ResoundNow, an equipping ministry committed to making disciples who make disciples. She has five grown children including twins that joined their family at the age of 16. She has 12 grandchildren.
Hugo Concha serves as a catalyst for Spanish-speaking ministries for EFCA Southeast. Hugo was born and raised in Chile, South America. As a young man, Hugo ministered with Youth With A Mission in Paraguay. In 2003, Hugo moved his young family to Lebanon, Pennsylvania to serve with the EFCA as a pastor and a church planter. Hugo and his wife, Gissella (and their three boys), moved to Jacksonville, Florida in 2016.