Marc Porpilia

Trip Support and Devotional Leader

While Marc has cycled recreationally for years, you can usually find him in ice hockey arenas ministering to the hockey community as a chaplain through Hockey Ministries International (HMI). Through HMI, and more recently collaborating with Chuck and Dave on cycling tours, Marc has been privileged to connect with some of the top athletes from across the globe in their respective sports, and he is gifted in communicating the Christian gospel in an intellectually coherent way to both the secular and the committed believer.  From top college athletes to every level of professional sports, from local athletes to those in North America, Europe and Asia, Marc seeks to bridge the love of sport and competition with God’s sacrificial love for us..

Marc learned how to provide world-class cycling support from our Support Leader, Mateusz Calka, on a 2022 tour in the Western Swiss and Northern French alps. Since then, Marc has become a pre-ride, mid-ride and post-ride feed table expert, and helped us develop best practices that you won’t find on other tours, such as bags delivered to your hotel room before you arrive on transfer days, and thoughtful encouragement throughout the day.

When not on a bike or skates, you’ll likely find Marc with his wife, one married son, two adult daughters and two dogs in the Carolinas.