Michael Gunn

Mike Gunn is a church planter and co-founder of Mars Hill Church in Seattle, and former international director for Acts 29. He has helped plant churches in California, Washington and Chicago, as well as internationally. Mike left the last church he planted (Harambee Church in Seattle) in 2010 to move overseas to help train church planters in Australia, Ecuador, India and Turkey, where he lived for three years assisting a church planting team. Mike and his wife Donna came back to pastor at Anchor Community Church, in Long Beach California in 2013, and remained as pastor until May of 2019. Mike is currently the director of the Antioch Initiative, which is a coaching/training Church Planting network he created in 2012 to help train pastors and church planters in unreached and under resourced parts of the US and the world.

Mike has received his B.A. in education/social biology from Boston College, an M.Div. in Biblical Theology from Talbot School of Theology, and an M.A in Mission/Theology of Culture at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia, as well as, an Honorary Doctorate in Missions from Serempore University, India, and is currently working on a D.Min in Apologetics. Mike has written a few books, "The Da Vinci Code Adventure: On the Trail of Fact, Legend, Faith, & Film," "Gospel and Culture: Finding Ways To Engage The Culture With God’s Enduring Message of Hope," and “The Story of God: A Gospel Narrative,” as well as numerous devotionals. Mike has been married to Donna since 1981, and has two adult children, Justin and Charissa, as well as a daughter in law (Lauren), a grandson (Brayden), and a grand-daughter (Payton).