R. Mark Montgomery is the director of Nazarene Collegiate Fellowship on the University of Tennessee Knoxville campus, an ordained minister in the Church of the Nazarene, speaker and author. He is the founder of the BreakThrough Equipping Network, recruiting and training church planters and coaching pastors in the USA/Canada region, and currently the coordinator of Operation: Opportunity Knox, a county-wide, church planting initiative radiating from his organic work on campus. His dissertation, How Shame Shapes Church Planting: Exploring Impacts of Gospel Receptivity Among Emerging Adults, was published in 2022.