Mike Garner

I am originally from California. I live in Lapu Lapu City Philippines. In the eighties I worked as a missionary on the Island of Leyte and traveled throughout the Visayan Islands and parts of Luzon teaching and working with local Pastors.

I have earned M.Div. M.A.R. and D.Min. degrees from Azusa Pacific University. I served as the founding Dean of The Institute for Global Outreach Developments International where I also trained students on the mission field. I enjoy a variety of service to others including helping inmates, organizing exploited labor, educating the poor on their rights, shutting down sex bars, and teaching at bible colleges.

I am also a grandfather with a growing number of grandchildren. I have been a farm worker, a Marine, an oil field worker, a plumber, an expert witness, a high school teacher, a missionary, a pastor, a bible college professor, an author, a poet, and an on the field instructor for students seeking to become missional development workers.