Mark Llewellyn Edwards OAM completed a Bachelor of Laws at Queensland University of Technology. After graduating, he entered Articles of Clerkship and qualified as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of Queensland. Specializing in Criminal Law he worked at the Queensland Legal Aid Commission for two years then commenced his own legal firm, Mark L Edwards and Associates in Ipswich, where he practiced for 12 years.

He completed Theology studies and was appointed Senior Minister at Cityhope Church, Ipswich for 33 years until transitioning the leadership in November 2023. In 2010, he was honoured as an Ambassador for the City of Ipswich in the city’s 150th year and, on 26th January 2014, he was awarded the Honour of a Medal of the Order of Australia (AOM) for ‘Service to the Church and Community of Ipswich’.

On Anzac Day in 2022, he was awarded The Australian Army Director General’s Chaplaincy Medal and the RAAF Director General Chaplaincy Branch Recognition Medal for Services to Anzac Day Celebrations and in 2024 the Australian War Memorial’s Director’s Medal, when Director Mr. Matt Anderson PSM attended Cityhope Church’s Anzac Day Service.

He has researched and produced numerous Anzac Documentaries, the latest ‘Fallen’ was featured on SBS in 2023 and 2024, and he is currently completing a PhD, researching the effects of battle-related trauma upon World War I Australian imperial force front-line chaplains.