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Cheryl and John Mark both call Nebraska home. After getting married in 1981, John Mark and Cheryl became involved in First Baptist Ferguson, MO.  John Mark finished his MBA from Webster University during this time. Cheryl was the financial aid officer for Watterson College and John Mark was a credit analyst for the Union Pacific Railroad.  After receiving a call to international Chinese missions, John Mark and Cheryl moved from the St. Louis area to Fort Worth, Texas to attend Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Cheryl worked for the University of Texas-Arlington as the Undergraduate Accounting Advisor. As John Mark finished his masters in religious education, Cheryl started working in a masters in linguistics from the University of Texas-Arlington and the Sumner Institute of Linguistics. After graduation, John Mark started working for UTA also as the manager of the Perkins student loan program for the business office. During all this activity, John Nathan Hansen was born on 12/30/1985.  Cheryl and John Mark served with churches in Fort Worth, Mineral Wells, and a new church start in Arlington, Texas.

Cheryl and John Mark were appointed to the International Mission Board on 6/30/86 to serve in Taiwan Province, Republic of China. John Mark served as the mission treasurer and the regional financial consultant. Cheryl served as the Language and Orientation Coordinator for the regional Chinese training center. The Hansens were under appointment for 9 years. During this time Christine Elizabeth Hansen was born in Taipei, Taiwan on 1/8/90.

In 1996 John Mark was asked to served as the first Director of Missions for the newly formed Northeast Baptist Association in Nebraska. They were appointed to the North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. The Hansens lived in Oakland and Norfolk, Nebraska. They saw the number of works in the area grow from 10 to 30 during the time that they worked in the area. These included Anglo, Hispanic and Native American ministries. They lead personal financial, senior adult and youth conferences in addition to their other missions and ministry duties.  John Mark had great fun giving away about 20 cars a year to ministry needs during the "Northeast" years!  

On 6/30/04, Cheryl and John Mark were reappointed to the IMB to serve as strategic coordinators to the Chinese in Panama.