Mike is a scrappy guy.

He left a job as a financial advisor to pastor a very old congregation in Leighton, Pennsylvania.

Having helped breathe new life into the congregation, he’s exploring creative avenues that are sure to interest you.

He leads two English language services in a tiny building and planted a Spanish language service because he saw a need though no one in the church spoke Spanish at the time.

While the 130-year-old congregation snowballs with growth, they’ve planted a separate online church which has planted a brick and mortar church hundreds of miles away in Georgia and another in India.

The online church is not to be confused with its streaming video from the home base.

The Echo Online Campus exists to create a fully digital congregation whereby people from across the country and the world join others via emerging technology.

The digital campus mixes virtual reality, Discord, Zoom and a mixed salad of other apps and gadgets to reach people. That congregation is now nearly half the size of the Pennsylvania location and stretches across several states and two different countries.

The operation utilize an “apprentice maker” discipling model developed locally and soon to appear in a book by Michael.

On another front, Michael currently presses to generate passive income enabling him to return most of his salary to the church. The latest project is an internet app about to go live.

To be sure, these people are building the plane as they fly it. If you’re inventive and working in the digital space, you’ll be challenged and encouraged by pure inventiveness in this podcast.

For more information, contact mike at [email protected]. The website is https://www.peoplesecchurch.com/.

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