Michael McGill
Senior Partner, Children and Youth

Michael has invested time in over 40 countries throughout Africa, Asia, North America, Europe and Latin America. Throughout the last decade he has facilitated productive interagency partnerships, and used passionate public speaking and writing to call others to specific actions on behalf of the oppressed — particularly exploited children. He has shown a commitment to reflective practice and evidence-backed action. Simultaneously, Michael founded a real estate investment business that helped fund much of his efforts.

Prior to coming to Breakthrough Partners, Michael was the Associate Director of visionSynergy’s international younger leader initiative, Founder and Director of the World Evangelical Alliance Peacebuilding and Reconciliation Initiative, and Founder and Director of Just Children, an initiative waging peace in majority world nations impacted by armed conflict by mobilizing child peacebuilding. As well, he is the Founder and Owner of The Stewardship Corporation, a real estate investment business conducting purchases, sales, renovations, rental management, and new construction. He has worked as a mental health therapist in group, family, and individual settings treating sexually exploited, neglected, and/or abused children. He also founder and directed The Asha Forum, a movement working to link and enhance the Christian response to child sexual exploitation worldwide.

Michael is currently a PhD Candidate in Intercultural Studies Fuller Theological Seminary. He has a Master of Arts degree in Counseling (+½ MA of Divinity) from Western Seminary Seattle (Mars Hill Graduate School) and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications with minors in Philosophy and Sociology from Western Washington University. He has lectured at Fuller Theological Seminary, Puget Sound Christian College, The Graduate School at Wheaton, Western Seminary, Northwest University, and Seattle Pacific University and has been published in several major publications. Michael is married to Kate; they are living in Seattle and expecting their first child.