Multicultural Ministries Director ~ Mike Brooks was born in London, England in 1962.   He is the band leader of blueshouse three thirteen, a three piece blues band from Detroit, Michigan.  Mike has been a musician for the past 36 years. Blues guitar is his first instrument. Prior to Mike moving to the USA in 2006 he ran a youth music project in England for disenfranchised young people, the project is called Electric896.  It is now the longest running youth music project in the history of the English youth service. Mike is a bluesman and currently the worship pastor of the Vineyard Church of Ann Arbor.  Mike is a graduate of a number of English Universities, and has degrees in Art, Math, Product Design, and a number of formal Teaching qualifications. 

Brooks, whose own guitar playing has been deeply influenced by the Texas school that began with Frankie Lee Sims and Pee Wee Crayton then rolls right on down to Jimmie Vaughan, combines the Lone Star sense of soul with the ragged edges of the Motor City's switchblade sonics à la Eddie "Guitar" Burns. Brooks' six-string lays the edges bare, he's got a vicious treble swagger and a cockney edge in his voice.  The whole thing is full of enough live echo and distortion to make the late Lester Butler of the Red Devils proud, as well, bring glory to God in Worship through multicultural inclusion.