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