Isn’t it Lovely When Life Has Margin for Interruption? Special Guest: Andrew DeVaney
“We wanted to go to build relationships - we wanted to build friendships, and we wanted to learn from people whose lives were radically different than ours.”
Isn’t it Lovely? Season 6 continues exploring themes of healing and identity as Rachel and Tracy sit down with AsOne Ministries Founder and CEO Andrew DeVaney. Andrew shares the personal faith journey that ultimately led him on a path of discovering Jesus’ love and deconstructing elements of faith in an attempt to better understand where God is in the midst of global challenges, such as genocide, hunger, and poverty. Andrew’s immersive experiences in other cultures and the resulting relationships created the opportunity to develop a model to help combat global issues while empowering cultures and supporting dignity, creativity, and agency. Andrew encourages a consideration that the beauty and image of God are present in all cultures, resisting the notion of superior nations or ways of life. He invites listeners to step into their own unique purposes as beautiful creations with specific work to do by pursuing healing and creating the space to slow down and ask the questions, “Who are we becoming?” versus “What do we do?”. Rachel realizes that Andrew’s love of sandwiches, coffee, and books makes him the perfect third host of the podcast and invites him to join; Tracy notes that the What Are You Loving? segment has a particularly budget-friendly theme.
Episode Mentions:
AsOne Ministries Website: https://www.asoneafrica.org/
AsOne Ministries Instagram: @asoneministries
AsOne Ministries Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AsOneAfrica
Becoming Whole: Why the Opposite of Poverty Isn’t the American Dream by Dr. Brian Fikkert and Kelly M. Kapic
Revelation 7:9a: After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey
A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society by Eugene H. Peterson
True Self False Self: Unmasking the Spirit Within by M. Basil Pennington
The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World by John Mark Comer
What Are You Loving:
Andrew: Cuban Sandwiches, Yampa Sandwich Company, Look’s Marketplace, and A Burning in my Bones: The Authorized Biography of Eugene Peterson by Winn Collier
Rachel: Libby, the Library Reading App
Tracy: Anatomy of a Scandal
Andrew DeVaney is married to Veronica and is the father of a baby girl named Louise. Born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, he graduated from Sioux Falls Christian High School and Dakota Wesleyan University in Mitchell, SD. Andrew later moved to Denver and graduated from Denver Theological Seminary with a Master's of Divinity degree. He is the Founder and CEO of AsOne Ministries, which is a nonprofit organization that exists to create a locally-led, holistic, and self-sustaining community development model focused on ending spiritual, relational, and economic poverty in rural underserved communities in Uganda. AsOne currently operates in five communities in Uganda and is led by a staff of over 115 Ugandan employees and growing! AsOne is dedicated to building a scalable movement of Ugandans empowering Ugandans.