From a Christian home and converted at university, Andrew qualified as a doctor from the University of Cambridge in 1992, and almost immediately began exploring a change of job. After a year on the Cornhill Training Course, three years on the staff of UCCF (where he met and married Hilary), and a two year apprenticeship in south-west London, he arrived to study theology at Oak Hill.
Returning to south west London in 2002, he began as pastor of a new church plant (now Cornerstone Church Kingston) with a growing sense that there was a lot to learn about people, especially about how God and his word relate to the joys and struggles of real life. After a few years he planted a second church and began studying online with the Christian Counseling and Education Foundation (CCEF), and discovered much more of how, through the gospel, Christ shepherds us at every moment. From 2013-18 he was a pastor in Dundonald Church, Raynes Park, London, with particular responsibility for small groups and pastoral care, and helped to found Biblical Counselling UK.
Andrew has been Director of Pastoral Care here since 2018. He is also a founding trustee of a crisis pregnancy centre and a tutor on the Certificate Course of Biblical Counselling UK, which aims to help churches be places of Christ-centred change. With Helen Thorne he has written a course for churches called Real Change: Becoming More like Jesus in Everyday Life (2018, New Growth Press), and a further course to help church members enjoy spiritually fruitful conversations is in publication. He and Hilary have two grown-up sons and a lively cocker spaniel, and Andrew keeps bees. Andrew and Hilary attend Grace Church Highlands where Hilary is Minister for Women and Outreach.