Meet Mitch & Erin
Mitch and Erin Gutowski were married in Kent, Ohio in 2008. Before they met, Mitch had been on mission trips with his church to Romania and Nicaragua. Erin had been on one mission trip with her church to Texas. Together, they went to Haiti after the earthquake as missionaries in the summer of 2010. It was during that trip that they decided to dedicate their lives to helping the hurting and to fulfilling the Lord’s call on their lives. They asked the Lord to send them “wherever, whenever.” In 2012, Mitch went on another mission trip with their church in Ohio to the Dominican Republic.
In February 2012, the Gutowskis felt God calling them to the inner-city of Chicago. Later that year, they moved to the west side, Austin area, where gang activity, drug dealing, and shootings occur daily. During their time in Chicago, they continued to work full-time jobs, he as an electrician for the railroad, and she as a high school math teacher. The rest of their time was spent in various ministries including homeless ministry, street evangelism, feeding programs, children’s ministry, Bible studies, GED tutoring, and prostitutes and pimps ministry.
In October of 2016, Erin started on-line classes at Charis Bible College. In July of 2017, the Gutowskis moved to the 133-acre property in Battle Creek, Michigan, which the Lord had shown them would house their ministry. Erin graduated from Charis Bible School in Ann Arbor, MI with her ministry license in May 2018. That same year, she participated in two mission trips to Sri Lanka and El Salvador. Erin then completed an optional 3rd year program at Charis Bible College for Buisiness and Ministry. Mitchell started Bible College at Charis in Grand Rapids in September 2018 and graduated in May 2020. The Gutowskis are blessed to now be the full-time stewards of The Fish Farm, the ministry the Lord has grown in their hearts over the past ten years. They believe that through this ministry God will touch millions of lives all over the world with His abundant love, grace, mercy and power!
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Our Vision
To see lives transformed by the love of Christ and the knowledge of His Word applied to and lived out in everyday life.
Our Mission
The Fish Farm will be a self-sustaining farm that will allow people to discover who they are in Christ and grow in their relationship with Him. People will learn a new way of thinking, which will break old thought patterns and behaviors which have kept them from growing and advancing in life. People will be able to get out of the “noise” of the world, which is vital to this healing and discovery process. They will receive daily Biblical teachings and also have the opportunity to learn sustainable farming techniques. People trained at the Fish Farm will be sent out to the local community and all over the world to minister the love of Christ, teach others in sustainable farming techniques, and transform lives everywhere!
