Mike Mudgett came to JICF in Feb of 1999. He had been a heroin addict for 11 years and described his life at the time as “totally hopeless, I had lost my family, my job, my friends - everything.” Mike’s heroin addiction landed him in jail where he was converted during a bible study. Mike describes, “I had been in jail for 5 days and was going through heroin withdrawals when people at the bible study told me that Jesus could heal me; I did not believe them. But after they prayed for me, I felt the sickness from heroin leave my body. The next day I woke up feeling refreshed and healthy, at that moment I dropped to my knees and gave my life to Jesus.” Mike recalls when he first walked through the doors of JICF, “I was the only person in the congregation, everyone else was on the worship team.” Since that time, Mike has served as soundman, worship leader, staff, and eventually as an evangelist for the church, visiting area jails and prisons and sharing his testimony.

Mike currently resides in Alaska where he owns his own business. He says, “The Lord had restored everything to me that I lost because of my drug addiction.” When asked what he remembers best about his time with JICF he replied, “Family, I felt like I was part of a family at Jesus in the City.”