Mikey Lynch (born 1980) is an Australian evangelist and blogger. He serves as Campus Director of the Fellowship of Christians at the

University of Tasmania The University of Tasmania (UTAS) is a public research university, primarily located in Tasmania, Australia. Founded in 1890, it is Australia's fourth oldest university. Christ College (University of Tasmania), Christ College, one of the unive ...

, a group associated with the

Australian Fellowship of Evangelical Students The Australian Fellowship of Evangelical Students (AFES) is an evangelicalism, evangelical Christianity, Christian student movement with affiliate groups on university campuses in Australia. It is a member of the International Fellowship of Evan ...

. Prior to this he was senior pastor of Crossroads Presbyterian Church in Hobart."How a ‘micro-revival’ gave Mikey Lynch a big vision"
'' Eternity News''. Accessed 15 October 2014. Along with

Al Stewart Alastair Ian Stewart (born 5 September 1945) is a British singer-songwriter and folk-rock musician who rose to prominence as part of the British folk revival in the 1960s and 1970s. He developed a unique style of combining folk-rock songs wi ...

and Andrew Heard, Lynch is a director of the Geneva Push, an Australian

church planting Church planting is a term referring to the process (mostly in Protestant frameworks) that results in a new local Christian congregation being established. It should be distinguished from church development, where a new service, worship center or ...

network. Commenting on the inverted red crosses of the '' Dark Mofo Winter Festival'' public art installation, Lynch was reported as observing that "My immediate reaction was a bit of an eye roll — here we go, a shock jock statement that gets Christians grumpy. It's a religious symbol and so for some people it is precious, so of course, people are going to find that hurtful. For Christians, the cross is a symbol of shame and it's about God taking on shame for the salvation of the word, so there's a weird irony in getting offended by a symbol which in itself is offensive."

Personal life

Lynch is married with three children. He studied at

Scotch College, Melbourne Scotch College is a private, Presbyterian day and boarding school for boys, located in Hawthorn, an inner-eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The college was established in 1851 as The Melbourne Academy in a house in Spri ...

before obtaining a

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from the University of Tasmania.Directors and Key Staff
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Books

* ''The Good Life in the Last Days'' (

Matthias Media Matthias Media is an Australian evangelical Christian publisher. The business was founded in 1988, and grew out of the ministry of Phillip Jensen and editor Tony Payne at St Matthias, Centennial Park, Sydney under the name St Matthias Press and ...

, 2018) *''The Vine Movement'' (Matthias Media, 2023)

References

External links

Genva Push: Christian reflections blog
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lynch, Michael Living people People from Hobart Australian Presbyterians University of Tasmania alumni People educated at Scotch College, Melbourne 1980 births