Mike Croslow is a passionate advocate for world missions and a veteran missionary, having served twenty years on the field in East Africa.  As founder of Abundant Life Ministries in Uganda, he focused on church planting, ministers training, and childrens ministry, primarily among the Busoga and Iteso tribes.  Now fully indigenous and under African leadership, Abundant Life Ministries has become a church-planting movement with over 40 churches in Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and Kenya.

After moving back to the States in 2000, Mike served as International Director for Agape Missionary Alliance.  In 2003 he helped found and establish Harvest Churches International (HCI), and served for three years as Executive Director and then as Coordinator for World Missions.  During this eight year period he helped raise over five million dollars for local church missions outreach.  Mike serves as Africa Director for HCI, building a network of churches and ministers across East And Central Africa.

After months of research, study and consultation with leading microfinance experts in several nations, Mike and Vail have recently moved to  Kampala, Uganda,  to launch a bold new initiative that will provide opportunites for Africans trapped in poverty to receive assistance in the form of small business loans. Known as microfinance, this approach gives the poor a "hand-up" as opposed to a "hand-out", and creates lasting and sustainable change in their lives.   In the coming months, Mike and Vail, will be  launching Harvest360 Microfinance and working with networks of churches in Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, and Kenya to expand HCI's presence on the continent of Africa.    

Visit our website at http://mikecroslow.com