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Andy Stanley is known as a pastor and writer. He is most famous for being a senior pastor of churches like North Point Community, Buckhead, and Browns Bridge Community.

<h2>Background</h2>

<a href="/biography/andy-stanley">Charles Andrew Stanley</a> was born on May 16, 1958, in Atlanta, GA. His father is <a href="/biography/andy-stanley">Charles Stanley</a>, the former <a href="/biography/andy-stanley">senior pastor</a> of the First Baptist Church of Atlanta and the founder of InTouch Ministries. At the age of 12, <a href="/biography/andy-stanley">Charles</a> became a born-again <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity">Christian</a>. At the age of 14, he began his work in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity">Christian</a> ministry. Stanley received a bachelor's degree in Journalism from Georgia State University. He then earned a master's degree from the Dallas Theological Seminary.

Andy's father divorced his mother, Anna Johnson, in the year 2000. The split caused a minor controversy at the Southern Baptist Convention. The matter was complicated by reports that Stanley had said he would resign as a pastor if he ever became divorced. The members of the church overwhelmingly voted to keep him on as pastor. According to First Baptist Atlanta's bylaws, Stanley would be able to keep his post as long as he did not remarry.

<h2>Marriage, Wife, and Children</h2>

Andy Stanley lives in Alpharetta, Georgia, with his wife Sandra and three children Andrew, Garrett, and Allie. Sandra and Andy met when he spoke to her youth fellowship group at Georgia Tech. He resisted asking Sandra for a date, but his friend Gary Niebur insisted that he call her. Andy and Sandra got married in August 1988 in Dublin, Sandra's hometown.

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<h2>Career and Net Worth</h2>

Andy Stanley joined the staff of First Baptist Church of Atlanta in 1969 and became a senior pastor in 1971. In 1972, Stanley launched a half-hour religious television program called The Chapel Hour. The Christian Broadcasting Network began televising this show in 1978. In 1982, Stanley founded In Touch Ministries, and its radio broadcasts began to be syndicated

After working for several years as an Associate Pastor and Minister to Students at First Baptist Atlanta, Andy Stanley and five others founded the North Point Community Church in 1995. The church has now grown to three campuses and over 40,000 attendees each week. North Point Ministries has also helped plant 14 partner churches in the US and Canada.

In 2006, Stanley was voted the 13th most influential <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity">Christian</a> in America, and North Point Community Church was voted the 3rd most influential church in America.

Besides being a pastor, Stanley is also a <a href="/biography/andy-stanley">writer</a>. He has written a couple of books like 'Deep & Wide,' 'Enemies of the Heart,' 'The Next Generation Leader,' 'How Good Is Good Enough?' and 'The Grace of God.'

Stanley has also co-developed a chain of successful leadership conferences, like Drive and Catalyst. Catalyst is a secular, spiritual gathering, but with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity">Christian</a> overtones. The Drive conference is an event for church leaders who are constantly shifting gears to keep up with the cultural demands of ministry. At Drive, people attend sessions led by the staff and listen to Andy's latest thoughts on leadership.

For over two decades, he has been speaking at leadership events around the world. In high demand, he says to nearly 200,000 people at various annual events before audiences of both church and organizational leaders, including conferences such as Leadercast and the Willow Creek Association Global Leadership Summit.

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