Director and Assistant Director of Development, Every Community for Christ

Mike and Pat Dragon serve as the director and assistant director of development for Every Community for Christ (ECC). Their passion is to support the training of national teams in evangelism and church planting in order to grow the kingdom of Jesus Christ in the countries served by OMS. Their leadership provides opportunities for people and churches to pray, give and serve in ECC ministry which deploys teams of nationals to evangelize, make disciples and plant multiplying churches. Prior to this assignment, Mike worked for two years on micro-enterprise development with Men for Missions. Pat served as director of Children’s Ministries for seven years at Eagle Church in Zionsville, Indiana. They continue to provide insight for projects that complement the planting of healthy churches for OMS outreach in more than 40 countries.

Mike and Pat grew up in Terre Haute, Indiana. Before going to Eagle Church, they served in many leadership roles at World Gospel Church in Terre Haute. They have been on short-term mission teams to Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Hungary, South Asia, India and Spain. Most recently, they have been to Central Asia, Mozambique, Ecuador, and South Korea.

After graduation from high school, Mike joined his father at Dragon Construction and went to college part-time for five years. He then went full-time for three years and finished his degree in business administration from Indiana State University. After graduation from ISU, Mike was hired by IBM as a territory sales representative and began what culminated as a successful 25-year career in various marketing and executive sales positions at IBM. With Pat focused on raising their children and serving at church, she has been a Girl Scout leader, karate instructor and school media manager. She developed and led ministry for children at her last position.

Mike and Pat were married in 1973, and they have three children: a married daughter, Desiree, husband Jerry, with five children (Jay, Anna, Xavier, Sydney, and Caleb); a son, Michael; and a married son, Andrew, wife Sandy, and their son, Andy.

Missionary ID #802318