Mike Henderson is a teacher. His passion is to share useful information with his friends—especially African Christian entrepreneurs. He writes books, conducts seminars, designs courses, mentors promising African leaders, and directs the work of Heart of Africa. He travels to Africa several times each year to hold conferences, encourage his African colleagues, and listen to their struggles to accomplish the vision God has given them.

The settings in which Mike has taught vary from a one-room schoolhouse in the back woods of Maine to a graduate school in Kenya. He was a professor of Christian education in two American universities and has served as pastor/teacher in a number of churches, both large and small. His favorite teaching context is one-to-one, man-to-man, preferably around a campfire. He holds graduate degrees in theology, history, instructional design, and adult education from Asbury Seminary, Yale University, and Indiana University.

Mike and his wife Martha live in Wilmore, Kentucky, and Friendship, Maine. They have three grown children (Joe, Kathryn, Laura) and eight grandchildren.