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Mark Ralls

District superintendent, Western North Carolina Conference, UMC

The Rev. Dr. Mark Ralls is a district superintendent in the Western North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church. Before that, he was senior pastor of First United Methodist Church in Hendersonville, North Carolina; senior minister of Centenary United Methodist Church in Winston-Salem, North Carolina; and of Asbury First United Methodist Church in Rochester, New York.

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