Michel A. Bell

Michel A. Bell is a Christian, husband, father, grand father, preacher, teacher, and author of five books. In December 1985 he becaame a Christian, after a two year journey to show his twelve year old daughter Christianity was for uneducated, feeble minded folks, he surrendered his life to Messiah Jesus. Today his life goal is, as the Lord leads, teach biblical stewardship of time, talents, money and other resources, and preach God’s Word faithfully. He fuses his extensive business experiences with bible truths about stewardship.

Married to Doreen in 1970, they have two children and five grand children. Michel and Doreen have lived in Jamaica, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the USA. Today they live in Ontario, Canada.

Michel spent 16 years as a non Christian and 16 years as a Christian in the Alcan Inc. group (Now Rio Tinto Alcan) where he held many senior finance, strategy, and planning positions in the, including Regional Vice President Finance and Legal for Alcan’s Pacific subsidiary, and Chief Financial Officer for Alcan’s worldwide bauxite and alumina group. In July 2002, after his exciting, enjoyable, and productive 32-year career, he left Alcan as Vice President Business Planning for this group to become full-time president of the private, Christian, non-charity organization, Managing God’s Money, which he started five years earlier.

Named an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow in 1975, he holds a Masters of Science degree in Management from the Alfred Sloan School of Management at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T). He is a Fellow of the Chartered Certified Accountants of the UK, has published several biblical stewardship articles, and authored five books whose essence is biblical stewardship: four money books and one time book. His latest money book, The New Managing God’s Money-The Basics, is available in French.

As well, regularly, Michel publishes his blog, and articles on EzineArticles and Technorati. Topics these published articles cover include money, time, biblical stewardship and other issues affecting families in Canada and internationally.

In the early 1990’s, Michel started presenting Bible-based seminars about handling finances, at churches, to individuals, couples, and groups. Since then, he has presented bible-based seminars on Managing God’s Money and Managing God’s Time in Canada, and internationally. Besides, in Canada, between 2001 and 2006, Michel partnered with Focus on the Family, Canada to present specific bible-based seminars on time and money seminars.

A radio and TV guest, and commentator, he has appeared several times on CTS TV’s 100 Huntley Street. Weekly during 2005, Michel presented Money Matters on 100 Huntley Street. And in fall 2008, he presented several commentaries on the credit crisis. You can view these clips here. As well, he has been on a Focus on the Family radio broadcast. On request, Michel preaches God’s Word at various churches worldwide.

Michel is a visiting faculty at Briercrest College and Seminary, Caronport, Saskatchewan, and Capernwray, New Zealand. He loves business and is committed to teaching students to integrate their faith in their professional lives.