Mark Radecke

University chaplain since 1997, the Reverend Mark Wm. Radecke came to Susquehanna after serving as pastor of Christ Lutheran Church in Roanoke, Virginia, for more than 18 years.

Under his leadership, the congregation resettled 64 refugees from Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and Afghanistan. Radecke describes the ministry of refugee resettlement as an example of “institutional separation and functional interaction” between church and state.

A native of Baltimore, Radecke holds a bachelor of arts degree in theatre from the University of Maryland Baltimore County, a master of divinity degree from the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, a master of sacred theology degree in church and society from Trinity Lutheran Seminary, Columbus, Ohio, and is currently a candidate for the doctor of ministry degree at Princeton Theological Seminary.

He is the author of three published volumes of sermons.

In 1999, Radecke began the Susquehanna University Central America Service Adventure (SU CASA), a two-week service-learning course and mission trip. Since the program’s inception, 145 members of the Susquehanna University community have served and studied in Costa Rica and Nicaragua, delivering a combined total of more than $215,000 in materials and donor-designated cash gifts, and contributing at least 7,100 hours of volunteer labor.

Radecke received the Joel Cunningham Award for Outstanding Service Learning Faculty Member in both 1999 and 2001, and was named the Omicron Delta Kappa Faculty Mentor of the Year in 2001.

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