About Me

Andrew D. Rowell

Associate Professor of Ministry Leadership
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Started at Bethel Seminary
2013

Education
Taylor University – B.A., 1998
Regent College – M.Div., 2002
Duke Divinity School – Th.D., 2016

Biography
Andy has taught in ministry leadership at Bethel Seminary since 2013. His doctoral dissertation at Duke Divinity School was on Karl Barth’s ecclesiology. He has presented at meetings of the Gospel in Our Culture Network, Academy for Evangelism in Theological Education, American Society of Missiology, Evangelical Theological Society, and the Academy for Religious Leadership. He regularly teaches Missional Outreach and Evangelism, and Discipleship in Community, and Organizational Leadership and Church Governance at Bethel Seminary. Andy grew up in Wheaton, Illinois and was involved with sports and student government. He triple-majored at Taylor University—studying abroad twice and playing baseball. He then did a semester abroad at Jerusalem University College with his future wife Amy. After getting married, Amy and Andy lived for six years in Vancouver, Canada both doing M.Div. degrees at Regent College and serving in pastoral ministry. Then Amy and Andy taught Christian ministry at Taylor University for two years. Next Andy did his doctoral work at Duke Divinity School, while Amy served on church staff at Blacknall Presbyterian Church in Durham, North Carolina. Andy and Amy have three children: Ryan, Jacob, and Alice. They live in Minneapolis where Amy is Pastor of Senior Pastor at City Church. Andy coached youth soccer, basketball, and baseball for 18 years.