Michael is a speaker and instructor at the Jesus Culture School of Leadership and is on staff at Jesus Culture, Sacramento, developing leadership and discipleship programs. He is also CEO and co-founder of Destiny Finder and Pastor’s Coach.
Early in his pastoral ministry, Michael developed a passion to see believers equipped and released into the specific ministry for which God has designed them. This passion led him to develop materials and a process for leadership development to help hundreds of people move forward into their destiny and calling.
Michael was born in San Francisco, raised by counterculture parents, and became a hippie and spiritual seeker as a teenager. He radically converted to Christ in the ‘70s.
He was one of the founders of SOS Ministries, an evangelistic ministry that still sponsors outreaches in the Bay Area. In the early days of his ministry, he was part of a Christian house ministry in San Francisco, ministering to street people and drug addicts. In the ‘80s he joined in with the Vineyard movement and planted a Vineyard church in San Francisco that became the largest evangelical church in San Francisco in a generation, and eventually was overseeing over twenty Vineyard churches throughout Northern California.
Michael was awarded a D. Div. from Grace Bible College in Gurgaon, India.
He previously served as Director of the Culture Project for Jesus Culture from 2009-2013 and taught and led the Church Leadership and Church Planting tracks at the Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry (BSSM) for over five years in Redding, California. He also worked with Global Legacy, Bethel Church’s association of churches, overseeing churches and creating discipleship programs for the next generation.
Michael currently coaches pastors and leaders around the USA and internationally, bringing his passion for mobilizing the church for kingdom ministry to many.
Michael lives with his wife Diane in Shingle Springs, California. He plays guitar, loves the Beatles, and enjoys jigsaw puzzles in the few spare moments he has to relax.
