Andy Gowins
Minister of Education & Administration Inglewood Baptist Church (Nashville, TN)
Andy is from the little town of Possum Trot, Kentucky (approximately 15 miles southeast of Paducah). He is a 1991 graduate of Western Kentucky University (WKU) with a B.A. (History and Government) and a Masters of Public Administration (WKU 1992). He graduated from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (SBTS) in 2002 with a Masters of Divinity and again in 2006 with a Doctorate of Education.
Andy has been involved in the ministry most of his professional life and has served in a number of church positions - children's pastor, youth pastor, administrative pastor, interim pastor, senior pastor, and now as the Minister of Education for Inglewood Baptist Church. While serving at Inglewood, he has had the opportunity to serve in a number of convention (state and national) and association positions. He is actively involved in a number of professional organizations and leads a number of church educational conferences each year. In October of 2006, he shared his original research, "The Purpose of the Modern Sunday School" at the annual meeting of North American Professors of Christian Education. Andy was also a contributing author in Mounce's Complete Expository Dictionary of Old and New Testament Words.
Andy enjoys a broad range of literary genres and writers including Mark Twain, Shakespeare, Dante, J.R.R. Tolkien, Timothy Zahn, R.A. Salvatore, Stephen R. Donaldson, Brian Lumley, Stephen King, Katherine Kurtz, Tom Clancy, and Eric Van Lustbader. An avid reader with a larger than life imagination, Andy loves to share his thoughts with paper and pen.
Currently, Andy is working on two new projects. The first is a new book on small church Sunday schools that are experiencing dynamic growth (this from original research he has conducted). The second is a collection of essays, writings, and teachings on the Second Coming of Christ, the End Times, and the Old Testament concept of the Day of the Lord. Neither project has been titled, yet.
Born in 1969, Andy is a native of Western Kentucky. He now resides in Goodlettsville, TN with his wife Debbie (an elementary school teacher), his daughter Dakota, his son Duncan, and their chow mix dog - Begger. When Andy is not writing, preaching, teaching, researching, or serving the church he can be found playing with his children and family, golfing with Dakota, hunting with Duncan, reading, camping, playing the guitar, or sitting in the cheap seats with his son - either cheering on the Nashville Sounds or lamenting at a Vanderbilt football game.
