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Andy Halfhill

halfhill_andy.jpg“I was basing my decision about graduate school and a future career more on the potential to make money than how God might want to use my life for His Kingdom work,” Andy Halfhill says. “I decided to become an environmental consultant, a job that is important for the Kingdom, but also pays decently, and these were equal motivations to me. A couple of months into graduate school, God laid upon my heart an incredible passion for helping the poor. So now I work for Heifer International, a nonprofit international development organization that works with communities to help lift them out of poverty in an environmentally sustainable way. What a great fit of my interests and training!”

Andy graduated from Gannon University in 2002 with a degree in biology. Today, he and his wife, Hannah, are raising their family in Little Rock, Arkansas, where Andy works for Heifer International in the Asia/South Pacific Program. “I have had the opportunity to travel to Asia a few times and help work to end hunger and poverty in this region,” he says.

Andy and Hannah have one son and they are foster parents to another little boy. They are also active members of Mosaic Church of Central Arkansas. “Mosaic is an ethnically and economically diverse church with about 600-700 members,” says Andy. “We lead a small group together, I lead our greeting/hospitality team, Hannah teaches Sunday school, and I planned last year’s Thanksgiving meal/outreach event for the community, which served meals to 800+ people in the low-income neighborhood where our church is located.”

Andy continues to point back to his college years, and particularly his involvement with the CCO’s ministry, as foundational to how he chooses to live his life today.

“My primary involvement with a CCO ministry while at Gannon was as a student leader for IMPACT, a wilderness program started and led by Sam Van Eman,” Andy says. “IMPACT provided a Christian community for me to be vulnerable with, to learn from, and to grow with my peers. I had never been a part of something like that before.”

Andy points back to the biggest lesson he learned through Sam’s mentorship and his experiences of the Jubilee conference: “I was inspired to live a faithful life to God in all aspects of life. As a student, this also meant learning how to look at my major and future profession as being an opportunity to glorify God.”

“The lessons that I learned while involved in the CCO ministry continue to affect the way that I work today. If there is one lesson that has stuck with me the most, it is that my faith was to be lived out in all areas of life. As my faith has deepened, I have learned how this plays out in other areas of my life, such as where I live, how I spend my money, how I lead, how I make choices and their effects on my marriage and family life. I view my life, and in particular, my job, as something that I am responsible to God to be a faithful and wise steward of.”