Introducing New Blogger!!! Brian Andrews
Posted by Rick Hogaboam on March 8, 2008
Hi, I’m Brian and I guess I’m the old man around here. (I recently turned 40.) Amy and I got married in 1997, and we are the blessed parents of four children.
Currently, I teach Math at the Ninth Grade Center of Cedar Hills High School in Cedar Hills, TX, just outside Dallas.
I’m a native Californian—born, raised and educated there. I received a B.S. degree in Aerospace Engineering from UCLA in 1990, and a M.S. degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University in 1992. After grad school, I started full-time work in a large aerospace firm.
Feeling unfulfilled as a rocket scientist, I quit my job and started selling car stereos, alarms and car phones at my parents’ store. (You know you’re old if you remember when you could only use a mobile phone in your car.) I was 24 and had no idea what I wanted to be when I grew up.
On December 15, 1992 at 4:00 a.m., God showed up in my bedroom and pretty much messed up my life from that point forward. I had been a Christian since I was a teenager, but I consider that day my spiritual birthday: the day I was “born again again.” Despite my initially fierce opposition to the idea, I responded to God’s call to enter pastoral ministry. I completed my Master of Divinity degree from Fuller Seminary in 1999, having done half my schooling at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.
Although I’m teaching in a public school right now, for most of the last 16 years I have been involved in pastoral ministry. I began as a college pastor at my home church in Artesia, CA. Following that, I spent three years working with youth, young adults and prayer ministries at what is now Living Springs Community Church just outside Chicago. After that, I served as associate pastor and worship leader at a church plant in the San Diego area. Most recently, I was the lead pastor at Vineyard Christian Church in Rochester, NY. Lord willing, I will be able to serve in full-time ministry again. Having spent a little time overseas, I’ve got the missions bug in a big way.
My vision is to see people from every nation saved, healed, set free and empowered to be passionate followers of Jesus.
