Andy Stanley
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Andy Stanley is the senior pastor of North Point Community Church, Buckhead Church, and Browns Bridge Community Church. He also founded North Point Ministries, which is a worldwide Christian organization.
[edit] Biography
Stanley was born in 1958. His father is Charles Stanley, who is the senior pastor of the First Baptist Church of Atlanta and founder of InTouch Ministries.
Stanley received a bachelor's degree of journalism from Georgia State University and later earned a masters degree from Dallas Theological Seminary. After working for several years as Associate Pastor and Minister to Students at First Baptist Atlanta, he and five others founded North Point Community Church in 1995. The church has now grown to three campuses and over 15,000 attenders each week. North Point Ministries has also helped plant ten strategic partner churches around the nation. In 2006, he was voted the 13th most influential Christian in America[1] and North Point Community Church was voted the 3rd most influential church in America[2]. Buckhead Church was featured in a 2006 article in USA Today in regard to its revolutionary use of high definition video in the place of a live speaker [3].
Stanley now lives in Alpharetta, Georgia with his wife, Sandra, and his three children: Andrew, Garrett, and Allison.
[edit] Authored Books
- Communicating For a Change (Multnomah, 2006) (ISBN 1-59052-514-0)
- Next Generation Leader (Multnomah, 2006) (ISBN 1-59052-539-6)
- It Came From Within! (Multnomah, 2006) (ISBN 1-59052-510-8)
- The Best Question Ever (Multnomah, 2004) (ISBN 1-59052-390-3)
- Seven Practices of Effective Ministry (Multnomah, 2004) (ISBN 1-59052-373-3)
- Creating Community (Multnomah, 2004) (ISBN 1-59052-396-2)
- Louder Than Words (Multnomah, 2004) (ISBN 1-59052-346-6)
- How Good Is Good Enough? (Multnomah, 2003) (ISBN 1-59052-401-2)
- Choosing To Cheat (Multnomah, 2002) (ISBN 1-59052-329-6)
- The Seven Checkpoints: Student Journal (Howard Books 2001) (ISBN 1-58229-178-0)
- Visioneering (Multnomah, 1998) (ISBN 1-57673-787-X)
- The Toddler's ABC Book (Tommy Nelson, 1995) (ISBN 0-7852-7990-3)
