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Riverview Christian Camp
470 Pefferlaw Road,
Pefferlaw, Ontario
L0E 1N0

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REV. MARK COLLINS (RUTH)

Riverview Christian Camp, Board Chair
​& National Director, Canada

Rev. J Mark Collins was elected as the Board Chair for Riverview Christian Camp in 2025. He is also the National Director of the Church of the Nazarene in Canada.  Previous to this he served as District Superintendent of the Canada Atlantic District Church of the Nazarene for 6 years, 2018 - 2024, where he had a leading role with Big Lake Camp. Before being elected District Superintendent he served the Church of the Nazarene in various pastoral and leadership roles across Canada including Nazarene Youth International, Sunday School and Discipleship Ministries International, and Camping Ministries. Rev. Collins provided pastoral leadership in the Church of the Nazarene for 30 years prior to being elected to the District Leadership role with the last eight years of local church ministry being spent as Senior Pastor of the oldest Church of the Nazarene in Canada, located in Oxford, Nova Scotia. 

Pastor Mark was born in Hamilton, Ontario Canada, however lived most of his early years in Nova Scotia.  

He received his call to preach at a very young age while growing up in a Nazarene parsonage. He accepted Jesus Christ as Saviour, on February 22, 1979. Although, he has been influenced by a number of mentors, he attributes his greatest influence in ministry to be his father, who was also his pastor. 

He earned a Bachelor of Theology degree from Canadian Nazarene College, graduating in 1984. Pastor Mark received his credential orders in 1986.

Among his many outstanding contributions to the life and work of the Church, Rev. Collins has demonstrated an ability to build resources to creatively fund the mission and work of the Church at large. Rev. Collins has a deep passion for camping ministries, missions and cross-cultural ministry, reaching the lost.

From 2012 to 2018, he was involved in working with church planters in Cuba, helping with a number of new churches and developing strong relationships among pastors and leaders. As part of the Cuba initiative, he has led evangelistic teams to Cuba for almost ten years. His work in Cuba has resulted in strong ties not only with the church but with various organizations in business and trade as well.

Pastor Mark and his wife Ruth are the proud parents of three children, Jeffery, Cameron (Meghan) and Sarah (Davis), and two very beautiful grandsons. 

The guiding passage of scripture for Pastor Mark is:
“I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me.” Galatians 2:20