Rev. Michaele LaVigne is a wife, mother, pastor, author, spiritual director and ordained elder in the Church of the Nazarene. Throughout her seventeen years of pastoral ministry, Michaele has served in a variety of ministry contexts including an under-resourced neighborhood in Ohio, a developing country in Southern Africa, a large suburban congregation, and most recently an urban church plant in Oklahoma City. In 2015 she co-founded 8th Street Church of the Nazarene, where she served as Pastor of Spiritual Formation until December 2021. Her belief that what we do is a direct result of who we are has fueled her own journey of spiritual formation, and her work to aid the formation process for others.

In 2019 Michaele published Living the Way of Jesus: Practicing the Christian Calendar One Week at a Time, a collection of weekly practices she originally wrote for 8th Street Church. She is also a contributing author to My Life with Jesus: 365 Devotions for Kids, and The City: Urban Churches in the Wesleyan Holiness Tradition, by Dr. David Busic. Michaele is a graduate of Mt. Vernon Nazarene University and earned a Master of Divinity degree from Ashland Theological Seminary. She is married to Brent, and they reside in South Bend, Indiana with their son and daughter.