Gather Chapel - Dr. Michael Krause

Passage: Hebrews 12

Michael Krause discusses how we should respond to fear and how to have faith during times of trouble.

Dr. Michael Krause brings with him a broad range of ministerial experience in an urban context in churches, social service agencies and educational institutions.  He was the youth pastor at Flemingdon Park Church, the assistant pastor at the Stone Church in downtown Toronto and the senior pastor at Church on the Street, an experimental church reaching out to street youth in the urban core. He was the director of Evergreen, Yonge Street Mission’s outreach to street involved youth, supervising 20 staff overseeing a thriving menu of programs including health care, housing support, employment training, life skills development, street outreach, drop-in and meal programs, and a broad range of advocacy support.

He has also been active as a church planter, pioneering Hills Church, an innovative, neighbourhood-based house church network in Thornhill.  He recently functioned as the interim Staff Care director at Yonge Street Mission where he provided leadership development, ministry coaching and counselling to staff members working with the urban poor. He has been teaching courses with the TIM Centre Diploma program since its inception in 2010. He also has a private practice as a leadership coach and church consultant. Michael is ordained with the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada.