Mark still denies any wrongdoing.
He wrote this on his web page:
https://strongdisciple.com/portfolio/edition-28-lead-the-way-all-the-way“In January of 2018 a vicious, slanderous, nefarious online rumor was started about me, and through a series of tremendous egregious injustices, my ministry was sabotaged, my reputation destroyed and all I had worked for was gone. Through this horrific ordeal, through all the betrayals and all the losses, all the people who walked away from me, there was one absolutely amazing, incredible, monumental thing that occurred.
All of my children, who are all adults, married with children of their own, who have served with me all these years, and lived with me, and know me, and their spouses, whom I have known for almost 20 years, all of them, and my wife, stood with me, stood up for me, and bore witness over, and over, and over again to the kind of man I was to them. Each of them wrote and spoke of their great love, and respect for me. My wife and children, not flinching once, not because I asked them to, not because they felt they had to, but because they wanted to. Each of them stood up on Facebook and on a website that they put up for me and wrote things about me, through their eyes, from their first-hand experiences, things that brought me to tears and gave me tremendous, unbelievable joy, and gratitude.
How many men get to see and hear their children, under the most extreme of circumstances, under intense pressure and ridicule, watch those same kids, stand up and boldly declare their deep love, respect, admiration, gratitude, appreciation and devotion to their father?
At the end of the day, at the end of my life, nothing matters more to me than what those who lived with me, day and in day out, really saw in me and thought of me. The crowds come and go. The people who kiss you today, will kill you tomorrow! Just ask Jesus!
If you would be interested, you may go here
https://pastormarkdarling.com/father/ to read what they each wrote and see a picture of each of them and their precious families. They helped build this site for me, it was not my doing at all.“