Ps Andrew Cavanagh
Pastors Andrew Cavanagh
Born again at the age of 9 when his family was impacted by the Charismatic Renewal in the Anglican Church in the late 1960's. Andrew and his family (father, mother two sisters and brother) were all part of establishing a new church in Melbourne's outer Eastern suburbs. This church eventually became part of the CRC where Andrew remained until after his marriage to Susan in 1982.
After moving to the Frankston area in 1984 and not finding a suitable church Andrew and Susan visited the newly established New Life Christian Centre (later to become Southern Lights) and has remained there ever since. After moving into a series of leadership roles at New Life, Andrew felt the call of God on his life and left a successful retail career to work for the church and study at Tabor College.
He soon moved into areas of teaching within the church, an aspect of his calling for which he has a real passion, and developed many training courses for the church. Andrew is currently working for Monash University combining his passion for training others and his experience in retail, working with retail organisations across Australia, New Zealand and Asia and is often contacted by the media for comment on retail issues.
He juggles these responsibilities with active involvement with the leadership team at Southern Lights and other associated churches. His passion is to see leadership teams equipped and strengthened and to see all Christians learning how to 'correctly handle the word of truth'.