Mitch was raised in a traditional Reform Jewish home near Boston.  After graduating from high school, he went to the University of Massachusetts and focused all his attention on a culinary career. Mitch worked at some of the finest hotels in Boston, achieving his goal of cooking with the best chefs in the world and also partying and drinking heavily. As a result of his wild lifestyle, he could no longer keep up with the high demands and pressure of cooking at the top, and was fired from his job.  To make ends meet, Mitch took a job in a deli. 

One day, Mitch came home drunk at three in the morning. While lying on his couch, he realized that his life was a wreck and prayed to God for the first time in years. The next day, he quit smoking and drinking. As Mitch began to trust God for the first time in his life, he talked with a Christian co-worker about the Bible and Jesus.  He started to attend church, and finally began to grasp the Gospel message.

Mitch invited Jesus into his life in 1987, and moved to San Francisco the following year. There, he met Mitch Glaser – the first Jewish believer he had ever met – who taught and discipled him for several years. In 1997, Mitch married Kina, a second-generation Jewish believer, and today they have two young daughters.

In 2006, Mitch became involved in the leadership of a Russian Jewish Messianic congregation in Newton, which is a suburb of Boston. The congregation has seen a number of people received the Lord, and baptized almost all the new believers.

Mitch is currently involved in planning the establishment of the Dr. Louis Goldberg Messianic Jewish Center. Dr. Goldberg was a towering figure in Jewish scholarship who taught for many years at Moody Bible Institute and was Mitch’s mentor.

This Center will represent the re-establishment of Chosen People Ministries in Boston, providing a place for worship, community outreach and a variety of activities designed to nurture Messianic faith. Boston also offers wonderful opportunities to minister to a student population – places like Harvard, Boston University and M.I.T. are just three of the educational institutions that serve about 250,000 students – a large number of them Jewish.