Dr. Mike Chandler

Senior Pastor/Elder of Grace Pointe Church

Bio:
I was born in Miami, Florida and raised in Osceola County, where I have lived most of my life. I trusted Christ when I was 15 years old, responding to an altar call at First Baptist Church of Kissimmee. I graduated from Osceola High School in 2004 and married Melanie Ames two years later. Since then the Lord has blessed us with five children—Caleb, Cadence, Logan, Timmy, and Daisy—and I am truly blessed to say I am married to my best friend. I first felt called to life-long ministry during our honeymoon and later realized I was called specifically to a preaching ministry when I was 24. After finishing graduate school, I began serving in my first pastorate here in Saint Cloud, serving as Lead Pastor of Harmony Community Church for more than 3 years. I came to Celebration Community Church in 2017, where God facilitated the launch of a satellite campus in Saint Cloud. I was called as Campus Pastor of that campus in 2018 and later became the Senior Pastor when the campus transitioned to operating as an autonomous church—Grace Pointe Church—in 2022.

Education:

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D), Applied Theology, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Wake Forest, NC, All But Dissertation
• Doctor of Ministry (D.Min), Expository Preaching, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Wake Forest, NC, 2016
• Master of Business Administration (MBA), Grace College and Theological Seminary, Winona Lake, IN, 2013
• Master of Arts (MA) in Ministry, Grace College and Theological Seminary, Winona Lake, IN, 2012
• Bachelor of Science (BS) in Information Technology, Capella University, Minneapolis, MN, 2010

Publications:

• “The Adoption of Communication Theory Models in Homiletics” in the Journal of the Evangelical Homiletics Society, Volume 21, Number 2 (2021)
• Overcoming the Influence: A Preacher’s Field Guide to Sermon Delivery for a Distracted Generation (Rainer Publishing: Nashville, 2018)