Biographical Information

Mark S. Fieger  is Senior Pastor of St. Andrew United Methodist Church in Toms River, NJ. Prior to his appointment to St. Andrew, Mark served as the Pastor of Titusville  United Methodist Church (Titusville, NJ), and as an Associate Pastor at St. John’s United Methodist Church in Turnersville, NJ. 

He has served  full time in ordained ministry for thirty years, since 1979.  His heritage is in the Greater NJ Annual Conference.   He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pa. in 1974, majoring in History and Education.  He taught world history and social studies at Edgewood Junior High School, in Tansboro, NJ, where he also served as the Freshman football coach.  He received a Master of Divinity degree from Asbury Theological Seminary in 1979, and a Masters of Theology degree from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1981.

Mark is happily married to Rhonda (Hanna) Fieger.  Their twenty fifth anniversary was celebrated in September 2009.  They are the proud parents of their three daughters, Bethany, Leah, and Kara.  (Ages 23-18)

His hobbies include: exercise, jogging, golf, music, playing trumpet, guitar, and the stereo, and enjoying his “side-kick,” Barney the Boxer.  While attending Overbrook Regional High School, in Lindenwold, NJ, Mark played football, baseball, as well as trumpet in the band.  During his freshman year, he organized a “professional band,” which played for weddings and socials.   While playing football at Ursinus College, Mark suffered an accident which became a catalyst for his conversion to Christ.   Although raised in a Christian home, he looks at his sophomore year in college as the time when Christ became alive and real in his life.   After a journey through teaching junior high students, being a football coach, attending seminary, and serving as a youth pastor, he felt “called” into pastoral ministry. 

His keen interests have always been Biblical theology, and applying the life changing truths of God, through Jesus Christ, in contemporary life.  The joy and calling of his life is to “make disciples” of Jesus Christ, who love one another and the world.