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Over the last nine years I have had the privilege to work with Andrew. While I am older than Andrew, he has developed me in areas of personal growth, ministry and leadership during this time. He has the ability not only to see talents, giftings and abilities in people but also to draw out and mature them. The process, filled with challenge, pain and joy is always to reach higher, go deeper and to be better than before. Balancing the practical and spiritual he has taught me to do everything I can do and rely on God's power to do what I can't.
Tom Trimble
Executive Pastor
If I wanted to ask someone to write a book about the rewards waiting to be gained for those willing to "step up and be a man", Andrew Fox would definitely be that man. I have traveled half-way around the world with him and have the utmost respect for Andrew as a man and a leader. I have heard him teach on leadership and being a man in today's world, and then witnessed him live it out in his own life. He has been influential to me in developing the skills and attitude needed to be a respected authority at work, to become active in leadership in my community, and to be "the Man" in my own home.
Aaron Johnson
Nursing practicioner
While serving under Andrew's ministry I have come to understand that masculinity is not a sweaty muscle bound brute playing football on the weekend, but fulfilling God's intended role for a man. I've been hearing all my life that women can do anything a man can do, but that's not the point. Just because woman can do a "mans" job doesn't mean that she should. What I've come to realize, is that being a masculine man means I love and respect my wife even more and that I take the responsibility in my house where I should. Since I have been taking my role as a husband and a man in this way, my relationship with my wife has grown stronger and I feel I an setting a great example to my daughters of what their future husband should be like.
Randy
Project Manager
I have known Andrew for three years. In that time I have learned a lot from him. Through his teaching and guidance, he has helped me grow and mature as a husband. Andrew's teaching is real, biblical and applicable to everyone's life. As a man, Andrew leads by example and his principles are biblically based. I am constantly challenged by Andrew in areas that will help me mature. Andrew is a leader in the church and a mentor in my life as I aim to be a good husband. I look forward to his teachings because they are challenging and they apply to life that we face as men in this world.
Matthew Labarre
Marketing Manager
Men from my generation grew up with various archetypes of a hero. I badly wanted to be a hero such as the Six Million Dollar Man, one of the Superfriends, or a Jedi Knight. That romanticism was tucked away to face the so called real world. Under the teaching of Andrew Fox, that fire of wanting to be a hero in today's world has been reignited. I was brought up by the church, family and culture to view Christ as only meek and gentle. Rarely was there any discussion about Christ being the paragon of which all mythological heroes attempt to mimic. The hero that I aspire to become is a follower of Christ. Andrew challenges us through scripturally sound teaching with real life examples that men face daily. Andrew's hero boot camp for me is about maturing and showing me how to be a well-equipped leader. His pin point accurate words though they may sting initially, are scripturally based so one cannot dispute the veracity. Those same words also provide strength to face sin head on without flinching.
Esteban Maldonado
Career Service Coordinator
What is a man to be in today's culture? Through the teaching of Andrew Fox I have gleaned what it means to be a man as well as what a man is not. Today's culture seems to have "sanitized" men into a vessel who now lack the fortitude to stand up for what is right. Society seems to value today men who do not show emotion, who are always even keeled as is seen in today's CEO's and even in politics: as to show too much anger or too much visual empathy must be a sign of weakness. Yet, this is not an excuse for men to be domineering, abusive individuals either. To be a man bears responsibility. In a marriage the man should be the spiritual head of the home, who does not rely on his wife to uphold the spiritual and moral grounds of the home. Furthermore, he does not "lord" this position over his wife in order to gain some selfish ambitions. A man who lacks ambition to work and is physically capable to work has aborted his role/duty as a man. In the church setting while there is always room for women in ministry, the church should be a place where we see the example of men in ministry.
Phil Dron
Highschool Teacher
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