Michael A. Mata has administered and designed ministry and community programs for nearly twenty-five years, particularly in the areas of community ministry, congregational redevelopment, transcultural outreach, leadership development and Latino ministry. He is the new National Training Director of the Tools for Transformation Program of World Vision U.S. He is the former director of the Urban Leadership Institute and the Mildred M. Hutchinson Assistant Professor of Urban Ministry at the Claremont School of Theology.

Michael served seventeen years as part of the pastoral team at Los Angeles First Church of the Nazarene (a multi-ethnic/multi-congregation church with a highly regarded community program and prominent Hispanic ministry) and two years as Pastor of Urban Mission at Pasadena First Church of the Nazarene. Michael and his wife, Kristina, have three grown adoptive/foster children and three grandchildren.

Michael instructs:

• Community Capacity Building
• Scenario Planning