Andrew was born in Buffalo, New York, a few years before his parents followed God's call to the mission field to serve in French Guiana and Martinique. After almost a decade overseas, his family moved back to the U.S. where Andrew finished middle school and high school in Maryland. He attended Taylor University in Upland, Indiana, where he received his BS in Environmental Science. In addition to meeting his eventual wife, Lida, God also used his college years to shape Andrew spiritually. The reality of God's grace in the person and work of Jesus came alive and began to take hold of him. 

After getting married and graduating college, Andrew & Lida moved to Minneapolis for Andrew to attend seminary at Bethlehem College & Seminary. During the past few years, Lida has worked in the Global Outreach and Church Planting departments, and Andrew has served as a deacon and worked in the Neighborhood Outreach department at the Downtown Campus. In  Fall 2019, Andrew was approved as a church planting resident. His family moved to New Hampshire in 2020 after completing seminary and the residency in order to make disciples and work toward establishing a gospel-preaching church in a town where there currently is none.