Michael Hare

Dr. Michael Hare has served over two decades in the role of senior

pastor, primarily in church turnaround ministries; fifteen years

working as a church conflict consultant; and most recently as staff

chaplain and ombudsman at Compassion International. These opportunities

have included:

• Leading turnaround interventions while pastoring diverse

congregations from rural New England to middle-class

suburbia to an inner city in Southern California.

• Serving as a church health consultant with successful

interventions in more than thirty churches in a wide variety

of denominations.

• Leading, training, and helping resolve cross-cultural conflicts

involving multinational staff globally.

Dr. Hare holds a PhD in Conflict Analysis and Resolution and has

also served as an adjunct instructor for several universities and

colleges and is most recently teaching mediation courses in a doctoral

program in Colorado. Michael and his wife, Colleen, live in

Colorado Springs and have four children and six grandchildren

who live in Africa and the U.S.