Mike Cook is a deacon serving in the Cincinnati East congregation with his wife Jan (Antion), daughter Samantha, a manager with AIM (Autism in Motion), and son, Josh, who is currently attending ABC.

John serves as a remote-employee for the Media and Communications Services department as Media Buying Agent. He also serves as Circulation Manager and is a Senior Writer for Beyond Today magazine.

He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1973. He also received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theology at Ambassador College, Pasadena, California in 1978. John was ordained an elder in 1994 and serves in the Cincinnati, Ohio congregations.