Mac Hammond is senior pastor of Living Word Christian Center, a large and growing church in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. He is the host of the Winner's Way broadcast and author of several internationally distributed books. Mac is broadly acclaimed for his ability to apply the principles of the Bible to practical situations and the challenges of daily living.

After many years in the Military with two tours of duty in SE Asia, he was honorably discharged in 1970.

 A business acquisition brought the Hammonds to Minneapolis where they ultimately founded Living Word Christian Center in 1980.

After more than 27 years, Living Word's church attendance has grown from twelve people in 1980 to an active church body of more than 9,000 members. Today some of the outreaches that spring from Living Word include Maranatha Christian Academy, a fully-accredited, pre-K through 12th grade Christian school; Maranatha College, an evening and weekend college with an uncompromising Christian environment; Living Free Recovery Services, a state licensed outpatient treatment facility for chemical dependency; The Wells at 7th Street, a multi-faceted outreach to inner-city residents; CFAITH, an online cooperative missionary outreach of hundreds of national and international organizations providing faith-based content and a nonprofit family oriented ISP; and a national and international media outreach that includes hundreds of audio/video teaching series, the Winner's Way broadcast, the Prayer Notes e-newsletter written by Mac's wife Lynne, and the Winner's Way e-magazine.