[Oe List ...] Mark Dove Obituary - Worthington, OH

[Joan]

 It all started for me at Friendship United Methodist Church and Mark Dove in Cincinnati.  I confessed to Mark my frustration that we weren't engaged in the important issues of our time and he sent Frank and I to RS1.  Things changed quickly for all of us.  Finally we heard that a PLC was scheduled and of course we recruited Mark to go.  Closer to the time of the course Frank and I wondered if he really was going to go so we doubled down on Mark to get there.  And he did finally go.  Years later he confessed that he really wasn't going to go and that we pushed him into it.  As many of you know from your own experience it was a wild ride.  Wouldn't have missed it for anything. Mark has always been on my meditative council.
Joan Knutson
    On Wednesday, October 30, 2024 at 06:05:45 PM MST, Nancy Lanphear via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:   

 Dear Friends, 
I remember the Local Church Lab that was held in Mark and Janell's Church  It was the beginning of the Movement/ Order experience for many of us and the meeting of friends and colleagues that has continued until this day. I'm grateful for the Journey with each one of you.  Sent with love, Nancy

On Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 5:56 AM Herman Greene via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:

When I was in the Cleveland Religious House, Mark was our closest ministry colleague. I remember him well. He had 92 beautiful years of life.
Heman
On Fri, Oct 4, 2024 at 5:23 PM Lynda C via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:


https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/worthington-oh/mark-dove-12003339

 

 

Today I received word from Janelle Dove that our colleague Mark Dove has passed on to the next phase of his journey. 

 

With grateful hearts we remember his work with the Local Church Experiment, and our friendship which was renewed when one of their grandsons was in music school in Greensboro, NC. 

 

We enjoyed Mark and Janelle’s visits through Greensboro and getting to attend with them several wonderful concerts of their Jazz Musician grandson Rob Dove, as well as to meet Mark and Janelle’s son Tim and wife Lisa.   The trips to their summer home in Hilton Head, SC,  were frequently scheduled around Rob’s concerts.  In return, they graciously hosted us in Hilton Head during our NC winter months several times, and Mark and John enjoyed playing golf together.  Mark introduced us to a minister friend who was looking for an RS-I kind of event for his congregation, and we led an RS-I retreat on a beautiful little beach town where John Wesley had preached, which led to further experimentation on the power of RS-I in various forms.    

 

Another special memory of Mark came from a time when we lived in Galax, VA.  Ruth and Ken Gilbert had taken a “traveling doc” assignment to Galax during that time.  When we learned that a youth RS-I was being planned in Chicago, we loaded a van full of family teens, plus Jono and friend, and headed north, stopping at the Lindblad’s gracious Wayside Inn on the way.   Mark Dove, Lynn Edwards, and Priscilla Woods were the pedagogues for the course.   What a delightful team to educate our younger generation.  

 

We send our love and care to Janelle and family.  Memorial details are in the link above. 

 

Grace and peace,  and celebration of a life fully lived in service,

 

Lynda and John Cock 

 

 

 

 

 
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