Mark Maestas joined IBSA as the Growth Team Leader February 1. Maestas has 20 years’ experience in church ministry, including stints as executive pastor of Vale Church in Bloomington in 2018-2019 and at Sagebrush Church in Albuquerque in 2015-2018. At Sagebrush, “he helped create a leadership development pipeline that trained over 800 leaders in two years, and that coached and developed a team of young pastors,” said IBSA Associate Executive Director Paul Westbrook.
Maestas has consulted with several non-profit ministries through his own organization since 2002, and most recently guiding churches in their hiring processes for Chemistry Staffing. He graduated from Howard Payne University and has an M.Div. with an emphasis in Organizational Leadership from Denver Seminary.
Maestas is married to Jamie, who grew up as a Southern Baptist pastor’s daughter in New Mexico. They have three sons.
“We are excited to welcome them to our IBSA family,” Westbrook said.