Meet Dr. Chuck F. Betters
Dr. Chuck F. Betters, founder of MARKINC
Chuck is a pastor, author, Bible teacher, and founder of MARKINC Ministries. For more than five decades, Chuck has been committed to preaching and teaching the Scriptures verse by verse with theological depth, pastoral honesty, and a deep conviction that God is sovereign and trustworthy, even in life’s darkest moments.
Early in his ministry, Chuck embraced the doctrines of the Reformed faith through careful study of God’s Word. That commitment shaped a lifetime of unapologetic biblical preaching centered on the grace of God, the authority of Scripture, and the hope of the Gospel. Yet it was not only theology studied in books that shaped his ministry. When his sixteen-year-old son, Mark, was killed in a car accident in 1993, Chuck and his family were forced to wrestle personally with grief, suffering, and the hardest questions of faith. Out of that painful season came a deeper passion to help hurting people reconcile God’s love with His sovereignty when the lights in life go out.
Together with his wife, Sharon, Chuck founded MARKINC Ministries to offer biblical help and hope to people walking through suffering, grief, and life’s unexpected valleys. Through sermons, books, podcasts, conferences, and personal ministry, Chuck continues to remind others that God is not afraid of honest questions and that His grace is sufficient in every sorrow.
After graduating from the University of Delaware at the age of twenty-one, Chuck and Sharon moved to Philadelphia, where he pastored Wissahickon United Methodist Church while attending Eastern Baptist Seminary. He later pastored Logan United Methodist Church in Philadelphia before moving to Delaware to serve at Red Lion Evangelical Church. In 1986, Chuck became Senior Pastor of Glasgow Reformed Presbyterian Church in Bear, Delaware, where he faithfully served until his retirement from pastoral ministry in 2016. During those years he also earned his Doctor of Ministry degree from Covenant Seminary.
Throughout his pastoral ministry, Chuck’s Bible teaching reached audiences across the country through In His Grip, a daily radio broadcast heard on numerous stations nationwide, as well as through local television broadcasts and OnePlace.com. Today, his messages continue to reach listeners through the In His Grip podcast and the many resources available through MARKINC Ministries, including Ask Dr. Betters, a YouTube channel where he answers questions about suffering.
Chuck is the author of Teaching Them Young and Harlots & Heroines, and co-author with Sharon of Treasures of Faith. His newest book, Learning to See When the Lights Go Out: Reconciling God’s Love with His Sovereignty, continues his lifelong mission of helping believers anchor their faith in the character of God during seasons of suffering and uncertainty.
Chuck and Sharon are grateful for their growing family, including four children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and the generations God has allowed them to disciple and encourage through ministry. Even in retirement from the pastorate, Chuck remains committed to proclaiming the hope of Christ and calling others to trust the God who governs both the mountaintops and the valleys.
Chuck and his family at "Cousins Camp 2011"
