CHURCH GROWTH COACH

About Church Growth Coach

Real pastors. Real growth. Real results.



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What We’re All About

We help pastors move from feeling overwhelmed to leading with confidence. Our Mission: to see 2,000 churches break the 200 attendance barrier.


What Guides Us:

Real Experience: We only teach from real, hands-on experience

Proven Results: Every strategy comes from real churches seeing real growth

Practical Application: No theory—just actionable steps you can implement immediately

Pastor to Pastor: We understand the unique pressures and challenges of ministry leadership

Kingdom Focus: It's not about building big churches—it's about advancing God's Kingdom effectively

The Heart Behind All We Do: Too many pastors are struggling alone with growth barriers that have proven solutions. We believe every pastor deserves access to strategies that work, taught by someone who's actually implementing them. Church growth isn't about luck or special gifts—it's about having the right systems and support.

Where It Started:
Our
Founder

At the age of 24, Mike Santiago, along with his wife Ashton, plus three kids in diapers, all moved to North Carolina to plant Focus Church. Since then, they’ve seen God do countless miracles as the church has grown to multiple locations with over 1,500 in attendance.

Mike is passionate about preaching God’s word, planting more churches as an advocate for the Church Multiplication Network, and helping churches break growth barriers through his resource break200.com. Mike was also recently elected to represent the under 40 ministers nationally for the Assemblies of God as the U40 Executive Presbyter.

He has been featured in Influence Magazine, and Outreach magazine named Focus Church the 2nd most multiplying church in the country. Pastor Mike’s ministry background spans across three generations of Assemblies of God ministry, and a legacy continues to be built as his entire family is involved in ministry. You can follow Mike on Instagram @mikesantiago.

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Meet the Team

Our Coaches

Our 1:1 coaching is provided by carefully selected active pastors who are currently growing their own churches and have personally broken significant attendance barriers. Each coach has been trained in the Break200 methodology and continues to implement these strategies in their own ministry.

COACH

FOUNDER

Mike Santiago

As the founder of Church Growth Coach and active pastor of Focus Church, Mike brings unique insight from someone who's currently growing a church while coaching others to do the same. He specializes in helping pastors break the 200 barrier using the exact systems that took his church from a living room plant to multiple locations with ...
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COACH

Michael Whitlock

Michael Whitlock serves as the Executive Pastor of Ministries at Focus Church, bringing over eight years of dedicated service and leadership to the team. With a deep passion for empowering people and building the local church, Michael has gained extensive experience across multiple areas of ministry. He now oversees all ministries across ...
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COACH

Cam Parker

Since joining Focus Church in 2022, Cam has helped grow our volunteer team from just 46 volunteers to over 400 in under three years. Additionally, we've expanded our leadership team from 4 to over 45 leaders across all locations ...
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Nate Stonestreet

Nate leads a church in the Bay Area. Over the last 3 years, they’ve tripled in size as they’ve learned how to develop systems, equip and raise up leaders, and steward the work that God is doing. They just started a 3rd service and are making room for God to do greater things. ...
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