Staff - About - Kroc Memphis

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Major Mark Woodcock

As the current Memphis Area Commander, Major Mark A. Woodcock oversees a seven-county area, organizing disaster services, shelters for women and children, recovery centers, daycares and two Corps worship facilities.

Major Woodcock was born in Salisbury, Maryland, and graduated from The Salvation Army College for Officer’s Training in Atlanta, Georgia (Salvation Army seminary). Having been an Officer/Minister for over 20 years, Mark has had the following appointments with The Salvation Army:

Martinsville, VA
Gaithersburg, MD
Stanton, VA
Charlottesville, VA
Jackson, MS
Divisional Headquarters Jackson, MS Area Command
Memphis, TN Area Command

Major Woodcock is a second-generation Officer (Minister) and Salvationist (member of The Salvation Army). His wife, Rhea Dawn, is a third-generation Officer and a fourth-generation Salvationist. Major Woodcock and his wife were married in 1980 and have two children, Ashlee and Ali.

Lieutenant Jason Burns

Lt. Jason Burns is a native of Riverside, CA, and a 2001 graduate of Oklahoma Baptist University in Shawnee, OK. His first interaction with The Salvation Army came when he was still in college, working at the Army’s Boys and Girls Club in Shawnee. In 2000, at age 22, he became the club’s youngest Executive Director, a position he held for the next six years. Under his leadership, the Club experienced tremendous and unprecedented growth, expanding its programming and increasing participation from 18 children to over 100 annually.

Jason felt called to commit his life to The Salvation Army’s service in the spring of 2005. He enrolled in the School for Officers’ Training in Atlanta, GA, with his wife Bethany the following year. In 2008, he was commissioned as an officer and appointed Corps Officer of Memphis’ Kroc Corps.

Director of Operations: Stephen Carpenter

As Director of Operations for the Kroc Center of Memphis, Stephen Carpenter brings an innovative outlook to successful ministry opportunities with sound business principles.

After working in the business world for a number of years as a software engineer and retirement plan consultant, Carpenter changed courses, attending graduate school at Princeton Theological Seminary and becoming ordained as a priest in the Anglican Church. Upon returning to Memphis, he combined his business and ministry talents in order to help co-found New Hope Christian Academy. Carpenter had been the headmaster at New Hope for 10 years when, in 2006, The Salvation Army asked him to take another leap of faith to help establish and lead The Salvation Army’s Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Center.

Carpenter attended high school at Memphis University School and college at the University of Texas at Austin, graduating with a Business degree in Management Information Sciences. He is married to Carrie, an educator at a Memphis area school, and they have four children.