His wife Lisa is Columbian and assists in translating the VeggieTales episodes into Spanish.
He has a daughter named Ally and a son named Michael.
Originally studied to become a pediatrician missionary. But he gave that up as the success of VeggieTales began to rise.
According to the audio commentary of "The Toy That Saved Christmas", Mike was doing a lot of freelance work during the early years of VeggieTales to earn money since Big Idea didn't make a lot of money.