Author

Mike Osler

Lay leader

Mike Osler is a lay leader who serves as co-chair of the ZOE Advocate Network for ZOE, an orphan-empowerment program operating in five African countries as well as India and Guatemala. He attended Mount Union College in Alliance, Ohio, and earned a doctor of physical therapy degree from the Duke University School of Medicine. Osler is currently the vice president of growth and development for Rock Valley Physical Therapy in Moline, Illinois. In the spring of 2015, he completed the Foundations of Christian Leadership program offered by Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.

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