Andy Low

Elder Candidate

2013 | Began attending Oakwood

About andy

Andy has spent his career in financial services. Along with his wife, Jill, Andy owns and manages two vacation rental properties – one in Door County and the other in Traverse City, Michigan. Andy enjoys woodworking, playing the drums at Oakwood, and recently “retired” from coaching basketball (not to mention the 14 years of coaching baseball). While he loves the Brewers and Bucks, he’s an unapologetic Lions fan.

Andy has spent most of his career in leadership positions. He often tells others that leadership opportunities present themselves when you’re not expecting them. That’s what happened when he was approached about being an elder. Andy prayed, reflected, and consulted others, feeling no reason not to pursue this opportunity. He’s looking forward to seeing how this role is going to challenge and bless him.

Favorite Verse

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Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

” -Matthew 6:25-34