Michael Good - National Director

My name is Michael Good, married to Lois for the last 35 years and looking forward to the rest of our life together.  We have 4 adult children - Jonathan (married to Jessica and living in B.C. Canada, Amy (married to Kris and living in Auckland), Natalie and Phillip.  I came to faith in Christ at the age of 17 at a camp at Maungatoroto, after involvement in the Youth Group at Lincoln Road Bible Chapel.  I have a science degree and worked in new product research before moving into sales and marketing of scientific equipment.  Lois and I felt God’s call into full time ministry together, particularly with young people, as we had both been involved in a leadership role with youth at our home church of LRBC in Henderson, Auckland.  In 1997 we moved with our family to Faith Academy in Manila, Philippines, where we were Boarding Home Parents to some 65 high school students over 6 years.  On returning from the Philippines in 2004 I took up the role of Youth Pastor at LRBC for a period of 4 years where I was involved in setting up a supporting relationship with Henderson Intermediate School, worked with Waitakere Police Youth Aid in providing Anger Management Counselling for young offenders, as well as leading a very gifted group of young leaders who ran our Youth Group.  For the last 3 years Lois and I have been Administrators for “Headspace”, part of the Youth arm of Global Connections in Mission.  Headspace is a mission focused ‘gap year’ program for high school leavers who spend 10 weeks of the year on mission in Thailand.