Mike Haefner: Vice-Chairperson

My name is Mike Haefner.  I am from the "Gateway to the Midwest", St. Louis, Missouri.  I have lived there for more than three decades.  While there, I received my Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Social Work from the University of Missouri-Columbia (MIZZOU).  After doing in-home family therapy for 11 years, God put the call to be a pastor on my heart.  As I pursued God's call to Chicago, I met my wife, Keri; began a family, Aaron (4 1/2); completed four units of hospital chaplain training; and graduated from North Park Theological Seminary with my Masters of Divinity.   Currently, I serve as the Associate Pastor at First Congregational Church in Greenville. 
I joined the Montcalm Coalition to Prevent Underage Drinking because irresponsible drinking as adults and drinking of any kind as minors prohibits one from being everything that God has created them to be. Trust me!! God has great things in store for us.  It says in Jeremiah, "For I know the plans that I have for you," declares God, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."  (Jer. 29:11)