President and Executive Director
Bartley-Decatur Neighborhood Center, Inc.
Mark Dixon is a native and lifelong resident of southwest Missouri. He has lived and worked in Springfield, Missouri, since 1978. He's an ordained minister, trustee and the teaching pastor at Deliverance Temple Ministries. He's also the president and executive director of the Bartley-Decatur Neighborhood Center, Inc.
For more than 35 years, Dixon has been an advocate and catalyst for positive change in Springfield. Some of those years were spent working with the Caring Communities initiative at the Community Partnership of the Ozarks. He's a strong proponent of asset-based community development, in which he highly values people’s abilities to solve their own challenges and determine their own futures if they are given the support they need to do so. Dixon earned his bachelor’s degree in psychology and religious studies at Missouri State University.