About
Our mission at Plevna Country Market is to serve and promote the local community. We live our lives and conduct our business according to the principles found in the Holy scriptures of God.
Meet the Owners
Mark and Sharla Lorenz are the parents of five amazing children and ten wonderful grandchildren (with one more on the way). They have been richly blessed with over thirty-four years of marriage, keeping Christ at the center.
Mark & Sharla met in the summer of 1985 and were married in August 1988. They started their married life together in northern Ohio. Nine years later they and their three children (Justin, Colten, and Kaitlyn) moved to western Kansas where Sharla had been raised. Mark attended college while there and after he was finished, they relocated once again, to central Indiana where Mark had grown up. Within a couple of years, they added two more children to the family, Kedron, and Brooklyn. Sharla says Mark had talked at different times about starting a bulk food store but she wasn’t too sure of the idea and didn’t think about it very often. As time moved on, Justin and Colten, graduated from high school, moved away, and soon got married. Sharla continued homeschooling their two youngest children, (Kedron and Brooklyn) who were elementary age. Meanwhile, Kaitlyn had also finished school and was engaged to be married when tragedy stuck their close-knit family; Brooklyn entered her heavenly home as the result of an automobile accident. It soon became evident that Kedron had grown weary of being homeschooled alone so as he entered his high school years, Mark & Sharla enrolled him in the local private Christian school. All of a sudden Sharla had more time on her hands and started volunteering at Birthright of Kokomo one day a week and found that very fulfilling. As more time passed, she began to think it would be fun to work part-time at the bulk food store, Miller’s Variety, just a few miles from home so she inquired about a job. Somehow the timing didn’t seem quite right. Nine months later the owner of the store called her and asked if she was still interested in a job. Shortly after being employed there, she shared with Mark that the owners were wanting to sell the business, and his mind started kicking back into full gear again. They are hoping this new venture will be the exit ramp for Mark’s hospital job!
