Markle United Methodist Church
Staff & Leaders

  • Joel Forman

    Joel Forman
    Family Ministries Director

    Joel and his wife Carolina come from Marion Indiana where they have lived since 2012. They have enjoyed four and a half amazing years of marriage and really kind of like each other a lot. Joel majored in Biblical Literature and Criminal Justice at Indiana Wesleyan University and graduated in December, 2011 with a dual bachelors degree. He has worked in ministry in various capacities for the past five years, both as a vounteer staff member and as a youth leader and after school director.  Joel truly loves working with youth and kids. He sees it as an incredible opportunity to help form and shape kids into the people they are becoming, and really just has a lot of fun with it too.

  • Chad Yoder

    Chad Yoder
    Lead Pastor

    Pastor Chad has been at Markle since July 2016. He has been appointed in the UMC for the last 7 years, starting into pastoral ministry at 20 years old. He finished his degree at Liberty University in the spring of 2017 and will be in seminary at United soon. He feels called to lead the church by returning to the roots of prayer and the Word. He wants nothing more than to win the world for Christ.