Mike & Kristen Krieg

Mike Krieg experienced a radical conversion to Christ at 17. Shortly after, God called him to missions, and his first assignment took him to Irkutsk, Siberia, where his team planted a church and launched a college ministry. While living in that remote corner of Russia, he met Kristen, and together they spent six years sharing the gospel, making disciples, and planting churches through relationships with university students.

After years on the mission field, Mike and Kristen returned to the United States with a burden they could not shake. They had witnessed firsthand the incredible potential of non-Western missionaries and local pastors serving in unreached areas. These leaders understood their cultures, spoke the languages fluently, and had devoted their lives to reaching their own people. But they lacked something critical: access to quality biblical training and ministry resources that Western missionaries had in abundance.

In 2015, Mike and Kristen founded Storyline to address this gap. Their mission is to equip indigenous missionaries and local churches with biblical training, practical tools, and essential resources so they can multiply their effectiveness in the hardest-to-reach places on earth.

As Executive Director, Mike leads Storyline’s strategic vision and development efforts. He has raised teams and established partnerships in cities like Nairobi, Jakarta, Malaga, Mexico City, and San Jose. Kristen provides administrative leadership, managing finances and operations while offering wisdom and counsel to Storyline’s staff and partners. She brings a passion for restoration to both people and places.

Together, Mike and Kristen are developing fruitful, generous, and healthy missionaries for the Great Commission. They understand that the most effective missions strategy is not simply sending more Western missionaries, but rather investing in and empowering the indigenous leaders God has already placed among the unreached.

Storyline represents a multiplication model of missions. Partners with Storyline are helping to equip leaders who will train others, who will plant churches, who will reach communities that have never heard the gospel.