Mark Koch and his wife, Carolyn, moved to Houston in 2008, where he serves St. Andrew Lutheran Church here in Spring Branch (1353 Witte Road).  Mark is in his 22nd year of ministry, having also served congregations in Union City, Dyersburg, and Nashville, Tennessee.  As a congregation, St. Andrew strives to connect with the community that God has brought into their midst.  To that end, St. Andrew has three Lutheran congregations of different cultures worshiping and reaching out from a single location The oldest and original congregation at the site is St. Andrew, which is predominantly Anglo and uses English.  There is also Hilltop, which is predominantly Korean.  And the Spanish-language congregation of Centro Familiar Cristiano.

The Kochs have a son who is a recent graduate of the University of Tennessee, and is engaged to be married this summer, and a daughter who is currently studying at Sam Houston State University, and Beckie the dog.  Mark is also a doctoral candidate at Concordia Seminary (LCMS) in St. Louis.