Mark Hilbelink is the Lead Pastor of Sunrise Community Church in Austin, TX, one of the main leaders for YALT (the Young Adult Leadership Taskforce - a movement of young leaders in the CRC & RCA), the leader of the Lone Star Church Planting Cluster of Central Texas, and Stated Clerk for Classis Rocky Mountain of the CRC. Self-dubbed "The Weirdest Little Church in Texas", Sunrise consists of 13 missional communities across the city of Austin, specializes in radical socio-economic diversity, has quadrupled in size over the last five years, has planted two churches, and recently started its first multi-site campus.
