Mark Ryman is serving his tenth year as Pastor of Graham Friends Church (since June 2000). He and his wife, Susan, are originally from Springfield, Ohio, but moved to Durham, NC, in 1990. Susan is the Administrative Business Manager for the Dean of Arts & Sciences at Duke University. Their youngest daughter, Miriam, and her husband, Dan, are active in the church, and their older daughter, Cristin, and her husband, Matthew, are active in a congregation in Durham. The Rymans moved to Graham in February 2002, to a brand new parsonage, just north of the Meeting House in the historic dictrict of Graham. They recently renovated a historic house two blocks from the church and are looking for a Youth Pastor to move in to the parsonage.
     This is Mark’s 4th pastorate. He served the One Way House (now called Fellowship Christian Church) in Springfield, Ohio, for almost 6 years, St Paul United Methodist Church in the same town for 3 years, and Christ UMC in Lakeview, Ohio, for almost 6 years.
     Mark and Susan are both graduates of Ohio Wesleyan University where they each majored in English Literature. Mark received his Master of Arts in Theology from Houston Graduate School of Theology. He is working on a second Masters degree (in Biblical Studies at Carolina Evangelical Divinity School).
     Mark is also active in the community, being Chaplain to the Graham Police Department and a member of the Graham Rotary Club. Susan accompanies our worship on the piano and is an Elder in the Meeting.