Rabbi Mark Rantz is a successful congregational leader and rabbi-teacher with experience in Messianic Jewish education, training, discipleship, team building, and outreach. He holds degrees from Life Bible College, Biola University, and Bethel Seminary and is ordained as a Messianic Jewish minister. Currently he serves as the scholar in residence and assistant editor for the Messianic Jewish Study Bible at Messianic Jewish Publishers and Resources. Previously he served as the associate rabbi and congregational leader at Kehilat Ariel Messianic Jewish Synagogue in San Diego.

1. Rabbi Mark J. Rantz
7200 Chalkstone Drive, #T3
Pikesville, Maryland 21117
rabbimark@roshpinamd,org
Cellular: 443-633-3184
Ministerial Objective
Rabbi Mark Rantz is a successful Congregational Leader, Rabbi-Teacher excelling in areas of Messianic
Jewish Education, Training, Discipleship, Team Building and Messianic Jewish outreach. Understanding
the importance of maintain authentic Jewish space within a Messianic context, Rabbi Rantz holds core
competencies in ministering to both Jews and like-minded Gentile believers equally, while keeping central
the Messianic Jewish calling to reach the Lost Sheep of the House of Israel in an authentically Jewish way.
Finally, Rabbi Rantz excels in the areas of leadership training and development, and implementing lasting
strategies for building healthy Messiah-centered families and congregations, where all members of the Body
of the Messiah are equipped for Kingdom ministry and service in Yeshua’s name.
Theological and Professional Education
Life Bible College Bachelors of Arts, Pastoral Ministries San Dimas, CA
Biola University Bachelors of Science, Organizational Leadership, Minor: Pastoral Ministries La Mirada, CA
Nominated: Alpha Sigma Lambda Society
Bethel Seminary Master of Arts in Theological Studies San Diego, CA
Highest Honors, Appointee – Whose Who of American Colleges and Universities
Prepare/Enrich Certified – Trainer, Educator and Counselor – Family/Pre-Married Counseling
Messianic Jewish Ministerial Experience
Messianic Jewish Publishers and Resources (Clarksville, Maryland) January 2015 - present
Scholar in Residence – Messianic Jewish Study Bible, Assistant Editor,
Congregation Rosh Pina Messianic Jewish Synagogue (Owings Mills, Maryland) January 2012 – present
Messianic Rabbi, Congregational Leader

2. Kehilat Ariel Messianic Jewish Synagogue (San Diego, California) June 2011-December 2011
Associate Rabbi, Associate Congregational Leader
Kehilat Ariel Messianic Jewish Synagogue (San Diego, California) July 2008-June 2011
Rabbinical Intern, Associate Congregational Leader
Pomerado Hospital (San Diego, California) July 2004-June 2008
Messianic Hospital Chaplain
Ordinations and Ministerial Associations
Kehilat Ariel Messianic Jewish Synagogue (San Diego, California) July 2008-June 2011
Rabbinical Intern, Associate Congregational Leader
Tikkun Ministries International January 2011-2012
Installation as Congregational Leader, St. Rabbi and Rabbinical Ordination
Union of Messianic Jewish Congregations (UMJC)
Rabbinical Ordination - (currently perusing)
Four classes remaining from Messianic Jewish Theological Institute
Theological Research and Publications
Messianic Jewish Study Bible, General (Assistant) Editor
Messianic Jewish Publishers and Resources
Assistant Editor, Scholar in Residence (Due for publication in 2016)
• At Messianic Jewish Publishers and Resources, I served as the editor for the Messianic Jewish Commentary,
“Jude: Faith and the Destructive Influence of Heresy” by Messianic Rabbi, Joshua Brumbach
• At Messianic Jewish Publishers and Resources, I served as the editor for their forthcoming Messianic Jewish
Commentary on Ephesians (currently unnamed) by Rabbi Barney Kasdan (Book to be released in late 2015)
• At Messianic Jewish Publishers and Resources, I served as the Scholar in Residence on the 2014-2015
Complete Jewish Bible by Dr. David H. Stern

3. • At Messianic Jewish Publishers and Resources, I served as the Scholar in Residence and Assistant Editor for the
Messianic Jewish Study Bible
The Complicity of the German Church and the Nazi Holocaust (Masters Thesis)
Bethel Seminary (San Diego, California)
• In fulfillment of my Masters Program at Bethel Seminary, San Diego – I drafted an exhaustive thesis on both
the Complicity of the German church during the Nazi Holocaust. With this thesis, extensive research was given
to cultural and theological of the Nazi Holocaust, but also analysis on present day threats to the Jewish
community and the calling of the greater Body of Messiah in practicing both tolerance and serving as a viable
witness of the global Jewish community.
How A Leader Identifies Their Cultural Identity (Undergraduate Thesis)
Biola University (La Mirada, California)
• As part of my graduating thesis at Biola University (La Mirada, CA) I drafted both a thesis and operational
manual designed to aid Messianic Jewish leaders in identifying both the social and demographic markers of
ones community, toward the development of a successful Messianic Jewish community.