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In 1982, Andy accepted Jesus Christ as his Savior. He had the privilege of growing up in a Christian home and attending a Bible preaching church. As a high school student the Lord called him to preach, and he began to serve the Lord in evangelism and various ministries. He enrolled at Bob Jones University in Greenville, South Carolina, and graduated with a BA in Bible in 1999. Jenny received Jesus Christ as her Savior as a young girl. In high school, she was challenged to give her life to the Lord, and she surrendered her life to fulltime Christian service. She continued her preparation and graduated from Bob Jones University with an BA in Music Education in 2000. Andy and Jenny grew up together in southeastern Wisconsin and sensed the Lord leading them together. They were married in the summer of 2000, and following their honeymoon, they packed their moving truck to move to a ministry south of Denver, Colorado, Highlands Baptist Church. Over those next three and a half years of ministry, God gave Andy opportunities to lead evangelism and discipleship ministries and to minister in the Christian school. Jenny taught in Highlands Baptist Academy along with Andy, and she taught music lessons and served in the church music ministry. On October 24, 2003 Pastor Andy Gaschke was ordained to the ministry. In 2003, they moved back to the Midwest to serve on staff at Martinsville Baptist Tabernacle in Martinsville, Indiana. Pastor Andy Gaschke finished his MA in Bible from Bob Jones University in May of 2004. He was the youth pastor at Tabernacle for the past six years. Pastor Gaschke and Jenny have enjoyed ministering to the teens and helping them serve the Lord. During his years at Tabernacle, he led the youth ministries, outreach ministries, Sunday school ministries, and children’s ministries. He taught Bible in the Christian school and led the school chapels; and he and Jenny both have stayed active in the music ministry. God has blessed them with three children: Heidi, Andrew, and Kiersten. God had burdened Pastor Andy Gaschke and Jenny for church planting for a number of years, and in 2008 He directed them to Bloomington, Indiana, a community 25 miles south of their home church. After raising support for deputation in the fall of 2009, StoneRidge Baptist Church had its grand opening service, April 11, 2010. In January of 2010, Pastor Gaschke finished his class work for his doctorate of ministry degree from Northland International University. Over the next few years, he will be working on his dissertation. Pastor Andy Gaschke’s passion is to lead people to Christ and to disciple them with God’s Word, so that they can become effective members in the body of Christ. He believes that expositional preaching and Spirit-filled living is the most effective way to grow lives toward Christ-likeness and to bring God glory through the local church.
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