Mike Gilmore
Outreach Ministry Intern

Mike Gilmore was born and raised in California. He was born three months premature, coming in at two pounds, two ounces. He had surgery to sew up a hole in his heart at eighteen days of age and spent thirteen weeks in an incubator in the NICU. As a result of his stay in the incubator, he began to go blind when he was three. Multiple surgeries to reattach his retinas left him totally blind in his right eye and with the ability to see only light and dark and some colors with his left.

Mike received Christ when he was fourteen. Three decades later, he works for the federal government and is pursuing his call to ministry (which he first felt at age fifteen). He is passionate about seeing people of other world religions come to saving faith in Christ and has geared his seminary studies towards this passion. He wants to evangelize these people groups while also helping the local church grow in this area as well.

He and his wife Kristi have been blessed with twenty years together and are looking forward to what God has for them next.

Education: Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of California, Davis; Juris Doctor from Regent University School of Law; New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary (current)

Hobbies and interests: Listening to the Beach Boys; listening to Oakland A’s baseball games; reading; collecting plush forms of Snoopy—his favorite Peanuts character.