Mike Breen (pastor)
Mike Breen (born 13 June 1958) is an English church leader, minister and author. Breen has led missional churches in Europe and the United States. Biography Early life Breen recalls never having read a book at age 16, due to dyslexia. To enable him to partake in classroom discussions, his school teacher and returned missionary, Mrs. Dearmest, handed him a Living Bible to read. He states this is the first book he read in its entirety and credits it with changing his life. Education and ministry Breen holds a degree from Cranmer Hall, Durham, a Church of England theological college and is an ordained minister in the Church of England. He started out as a curate in Cambridge in 1984. From 1987, he served as parish priest in Brixton in the inner city of London — "Brixton is like south-central Los-Angeles in many ways". During his time in Brixton, Breen pioneered missional communities as a ministry model. The Breen family lived in Little Rock, Arkansas from 1991 to 1994. In 1994, Breen moved to Sheffield, following Robert Warren as senior rector of St Thomas' Church, Crookes, an Anglican-Baptist local ecumenical partnership. As team leader, Breen led St Thomas' to become