Friday Night Chats w/Dr. Michael J. Love on Leadership and Ministry

Bishop Dr. Michael J. Love, Th.D. is the senior pastor of Trinity Baptist Community Church International (TBCCI) in Crystal Lake, IL. on January 13, 1991. Dr. Love was licensed and ordained in June 1978. Under Bishop Love's leadership, Trinity has grown from a Bible study consisting of 13 individuals in the living room of his family's home to a 50,000 square foot campus on 4.2 areas. Included on the campus is a 30,000 square foot state of the art Worship Center, a new sanctuary with a maximum seating capacity of 800, a 225 seat capacity banquet hall, ten classrooms, and an inviting and open Narthex. The Chapel, the previous sanctuary, has a seating capacity of 350. Trinity has partnered in ministry with over forty daughter churches in the Dominican Republic, Haiti, India, and Kenya. In 2016, Trinity began a ministry partnership in Jamaica. While Trinity may have started in a living room and spent 13 years in a local school gymnasium, Trinity continued to be the place where the love of Christ is experienced. Through the stewardship of TBCCI, Trinity's Campus, the new Worship Center was acquired and completed debt-free. Over the past 30 years, Trinity birthed over 100 ministries.
In 2014, Dr. Michael and Karen Love founded the Love Family Christian Foundation and purchased the old Masonic Temple built in 1923, a 50,000 square foot facility I Elgin, IL. LFCF is a 501c3 organization touching and empowering lives through Global and Domestic Education, Medical Missions, Worship and Performing Arts and Community Outreach.
Dr. Love has a BA in Psychology from Randolph Macon College. Dr. Love post graduate conferral consists of both Master and Th.D from Emmaus Bible Institute & Seminary in Tennessee. Additional Honorable Mentions includes: Chair of Catalyst, McHenry County, Evangelical Child and Family Agency, ECFA Foundation and Fox Valley City Reachers. He has also served on the Cary-Grove Clergy Association, World Vision Storehouse and National Sheriff's Association, as well s the National Clergy Board of Advisors.