Michael Ensey is the founder and president of Christian Life & Leadership Ministries. CLLM was founded as Michael’s personal ministry with a focus on helping people increase their capacity and fulfill their potential by living and leading well. His ministry website serves as a central hub for accessing a variety of audio, video, digital, and print resources that will help you on your journey toward personal and ministry success.

Michael also serves as the senior pastor of Christian Life Center in Heath, Ohio, where he was elected in August of 2017. His ministry involvement includes twenty years pursuing his passion in youth ministry and gaining valuable experience in organizational leadership. He is an ordained minister of the United Pentecostal Church International.

Michael was born and raised in Texas and is a graduate of Texas Bible College (Bachelor of Theology). After college, he served for ten years as assistant/youth pastor at Living Way Church in Conroe, Texas. Seven of those years he also served as youth president of the UPCI Texas District. He then served eight years as an executive (Director of Promotion, Secretary/Treasurer and General Youth President) of the UPCI Youth Ministries in St. Louis, Missouri. He graduated with honors in 2021 from Urshan Graduate School of Theology with a masters degree in theology.

Michael believes that ministry is a team effort and he is very thankful for his wife, best friend, and ministry partner, Rebecca. She was born and raised in Seattle, Washington, and also attended Texas Bible College. She has a love for people that is tangible and impacting. She is involved in a variety of ministry endeavors at CLC and is the founder of the I Love My City community organization. She is passionate about her family and she loves helping people achieve spiritual, emotional, and physical health as a fitness instructor at the Licking County Family YMCA in Newark, Ohio.

The Enseys married in the summer of 1999 and are blessed with two boys, Lincoln and Grant, and one daughter, Avery. Their children love Ohio and love being part of Christian Life Center! They are all involved in a variety of ministries at CLC.