The Providence Foundation wishes to inform our friends that Mark Beliles is retiring from his official service with us. Mark launched the organization in August 1983 and has served for 30 years in various roles as its first President, then Chairman of the Board of Directors, and recently as the President of the Transformation Network (while also continuing to serve as a general board member).

While Mark is retiring from his official responsibilities with the Providence Foundation, he will continue to work with us as much as possible as an instructor and advisor. We are happy that he is willing to continue to voluntarily provide some of his time and talents to our organization.

Stephen McDowell will continue to direct and provide leadership for the Providence Foundation as he has for 30 years. We will continue to offer much-needed materials and training to equip people to think Biblically and live in Christian liberty. We will carry on the mission to train and network leaders of faith, education, government, business, and all spheres of life to transform their cultures for Christ.

Mark plans to focus on the passion of his heart, which primarily is to coach leaders in America and around the world to bring Godly transformation of nations in all the seven mountains or influential areas of culture. We have agreed together that the National Transformation Network that he launched in 2004 will henceforth operate as a separate sister organization of Providence, working closely together, but be legally separate. He is also releasing new books he has written on the religious life of Thomas Jefferson and is launching a new organization called the America Company.

Although legally separate ministries, the plan is to mutually promote and refer people to connect to each other’s organizations and products. We believe this will be a wonderful collaborative arrangement for many years to come and for the most part no one will notice any change. Providence Foundation will continue to support Mark and his ministry, and Mark wishes that everyone continue to support Providence just as they always have done.

We are grateful for the 30 years of service Mark has made to the Providence Foundation and look forward to what God has in store in the future as we jointly work together to bring Godly transformation to America and the nations.

The Board of Directors