FAI BOARD OF DIRECTORS // MEET MIKE

MICHAEL PATINO

After nearly forty years in Miami, Mike and his wife Amie moved with their three kids to Raleigh, N.C., and very much appreciate that their new hometown is not Miami. He hung up his first career’s firefighting helmet while still a newlywed as, in his words, “[my wife] and I sold everything and left our dream jobs behind—and that was just the beginning of our journey.” With nearly two decades under their belt together, there’s little ground they’ve not yet covered. Mike is the epitome of a “jack of all trades,” and has risen as a master of many of them. His degree in 3D Animation and VFX has led to project management and production in architectural design, cinematography, editing, and various leading marketing initiatives and media resources for the Body of Jesus worldwide. One of our core values is to resource those who have the Gospel with excellent multimedia messaging projects, while we reach those who don’t have the Gospel at all. Mike embodies this value with his very life.

Psalm 139 ends with David’s earnest prayer for God to get into his inner depths and make him right. This is Mike’s foremost prayer, that he would walk in a depth of relationship and submission to Jesus for both his own life’s sake, and so he would be filled to serve people around him with God’s presence instead of his own.

As an ordained pastor with ministry experience spanning since 2001, Mike has embodied the bridge between local engagement in his reached-nation context and serving unreached and unengaged people groups worldwide. His decade-long experience working with the underground church of the Middle East and his consistent leadership of home discipleship groups in the States brings the kind of clear insight we cherish in the heart of FAI. We are so grateful for Mike’s strategic thinking, visionary pioneering, and relentless pursuit of both Jesus and unreached people groups. His presence on the Frontier Alliance International Board of Directors immeasurably serves and supports many of our immediate and long-term goals.