Mitch Lush grew up on a dairy farm in Nebraska, was educated at Grace College (B.A.-1976) in Indiana and graduated from the Trinity Ministerial Academy in New Jersey in 1981. Following the completion of his pastoral training, Pastor Mitch and his wife, Nancy, moved to Pennsylvania to assist in a church planting venture in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Grace Church was established in April 1982 near West Chester and moved to her Downingtown location in April 2005. Pastor Mitch has enjoyed meeting and ministering to brethren in churches and conferences in the USA and also in Trinidad, the United Kingdom, Pakistan and the Philippines. Pastor Mitch and his wife have been married for twenty-nine years and have two adult daughters who are members of Grace Church, Downingtown.