Mike Wilkerson

Mike Wilkerson, Founder of Redemption Group Network, spent ten years as a staff pastor in a large, multi-site church, developing discipleship and biblical counseling ministries, with an emphasis on training church members to minister to one another with biblical counseling skills in settings like standard small groups, or in Redemption Groups, which are a more focused group format for biblical counseling. He now helps other churches develop Redemption Groups and similar ministries through Redemption Group Network.

Before working in vocational ministry, he worked as a software engineer in Seattle's tech industry.

Mike is married to Trisha and they live with their six children in the Seattle, Washington area.

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