Michael Cooper
Elder; Vice Chairman
Michael became a Christian when he was in junior high while at a church camp in northern Indiana, asking Jesus into his life on the last night of chapel service. But after returning home, he says he didn’t grow much spiritually. “My parents were divorced and not Christians at the time,” he notes.
Upon heading to college at Indiana University, Michael felt socially immature, and he “realized in the first week that I couldn’t make it by myself.” Fortunately, a fellow student shared Matthew 6:33 with him: “But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.” Michael says it was like someone threw him a life preserver. “I had asked Jesus to be my Savior back in junior high, but now as a freshman in college, I was asking Him to be my Lord.”
He graduated with a B.A. in Science and earned a master’s degree from Ball State University; then taught high school science for 39 years before retiring and moving to Florida in 2012.
Michael and his wife Barbara married in 1974; they have three sons and eight grandchildren. “Life has had its ups and downs,” he notes, “but God has continued to be faithful to His word.”
Michael and Barbara Cooper
Elder; Vice Chairman
Michael became a Christian when he was in junior high while at a church camp in northern Indiana, asking Jesus into his life on the last night of chapel service. But after returning home, he says he didn’t grow much spiritually. “My parents were divorced and not Christians at the time,” he notes.
Upon heading to college at Indiana University, Michael felt socially immature, and he “realized in the first week that I couldn’t make it by myself.” Fortunately, a fellow student shared Matthew 6:33 with him: “But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.” Michael says it was like someone threw him a life preserver. “I had asked Jesus to be my Savior back in junior high, but now as a freshman in college, I was asking Him to be my Lord.”
He graduated with a B.A. in Science and earned a master’s degree from Ball State University; then taught high school science for 39 years before retiring and moving to Florida in 2012.
Michael and his wife Barbara married in 1974; they have three sons and eight grandchildren. “Life has had its ups and downs,” he notes, “but God has continued to be faithful to His word.”