In 2013, Fr Markus moved to Columbia with his wife Julia and four daughters, to join the faculty of CIU’s Seminary and School of Ministry, where he teaches New Testament and Greek as well as Biblical Contextualization.

Before coming to Columbia, he served from 2006-2007 as an adjunct professor at Southwestern Theological Seminary and then from 2007-2013 with Liebenzell USA as lecturer for New Testament and dean at CIU’s European School of Culture and Theology in Korntal, Germany. He is a member of the Evangelical Theological Society as well as the Society for Biblical Literature. He has served as a pastor in Germany and taught in South Africa.

With his move to Columbia, Markus was exposed to Anglicanism here at Church of the Apostles and never looked back. His children were baptized here, and he was ordained to diaconate in 2020 and to the priesthood in 2021.

As a family, the Klauslis enjoy visiting extended family in Germany and the Pacific Northwest, taking walks, listening to audiobooks, and making music together.