Missy Johnson is the YoungLives Regional Coordinator for the Western Great Lakes Region. Missy has been involved with Young Life as a volunteer leader, as well as a backpacking guide and guide team leader at Wilderness Ranch, and later as a YoungLives mentor. After a season of navigating the world of sales and marketing, Missy felt called to full-time ministry and has since also earned a degree in counseling from Western Michigan University. Missy loves how YoungLives is meeting the needs of teenage mothers and their children who can sometimes find themselves on the margins, and that it includes all of the best of what Young Life is known for. Missy lives in Traverse City and loves running with friends, reading, cooking, and sitting around fires in good conversations with friends. She’s active in her local church as part of the prayer team, and as a Sunday school teacher.