1. Andy is a native Oklahoman. After finishing
his undergraduate degree in Oklahoma and a
Masters degree in New Orleans, Andy relocated
to the Northwest where he has spent one-third
of his life. Andy and Ela have been married for
over 7 years and have two beautiful daughters,
Endeavour (3) and Amethyst (1).
Andy holds an undergraduate in Religion and
a Master of Divinity in Biblical Languages. In
addition to working on staff at a church plant in
Washington State, Andy has started, grown and
managed a multi-state company in the financial
industry. Most recently Andy volunteered at
Mars Hill Church in Seattle where he was a part
of the leadership cadre, a community group
leader, and worked with the technology team
setting up and running the weekly satellite broadcast.
Andy is passionate about connecting people with Jesus, building genuine
relationships with his neighbors, and helping others live up to their potential as
participants in God’s kingdom.
ABOUT US SUPPORT US THE VISION
RESTORATION | CHURCH
Loving God • Encouraging Relationships • Embracing Portland
THAT’S WHERE WE’RE GOING, but we need your help. Please consider
how Jesus may be inviting you to support us — whether through prayer,
giving, or joining us as we follow Jesus in planting a new Gospel work in the
heart of Portland.
ARE YOU 1-in-100 WHO WILL...
(www.partnersinrestoration.com/1-in-100)
PRAY
We need prayer. For all our strategizing and preparation, we cannot succeed
without the Spirit of God building His church. Please pray with and for us
daily. Jesus will build His church through the faithful work, service and
prayers of His people. There is much spiritual opposition, relational tension,
financial strain and physical hardship involved in planting a church. Please
join us in prayer to our God who is able to do above and beyond all that we
ask, think or imagine (Eph 3:20). Regular prayer updates will be posted on
our web site at www.PartnersInRestoration.com.
GIVE
Make a commitment to give $100/month (or $1200/year) to support the
financial needs of a start-up church. For the price of one nice evening out
per month you can make a difference in somebody’s eternity. (1, 2, & 3 year
commitments are needed.)
SHARE
Gather a group of friends and family to join with you in your partnership as
you pray for and encourage us. Tell others about our mission and share with
them how they might participate in reaching the most unchurched city in the
U.S.
YOU MIGHT EVEN...
JOIN
Experience church planting first hand by joining us on this mission to
incarnate ourselves into a Portland neighborhood, serve others with the goal
of making Jesus known, and love Portland like Jesus does.
RESTORATION | CHURCH
3245 NE 49th Ave., Portland, OR 97213
www.partnersinrestoration.com
503.928.4471
BIOGRAPHY PRAY, GIVE, JOIN
“Since meeting Andy I have been impressed by his desire to see the
people of Portland ‘restored.’ He understands Portlanders, their
culture, and the hard work it takes to journey with people who are
unchurched or dechurched. We are excited about the future and
seeing what God will do through Restoration Church”
Jason Smith
Missions Pastor: Green Acres Baptist Church,
Tyler, TX
“And the prayer offered in faith will restore the one who is sick, and
the Lord will raise him up...”
James 5:15

2. We envision people from every corner of the city united under a
new identity in Jesus and sent to love, serve and challenge their
neighbors. Out of personal restoration, urban restoration will
follow, as the very spiritual, social and cultural fabric of Portland
is redeemed. To achieve this, our prayerful aim is to create a
movement of autonomous Gospel-centered churches in every
neighborhood of the city. Through our neighbors, we’ll reach the
world.
RESTORATION CHURCH OUR CITY OUR VISION AND VALUES
There is a story unfolding all around us. It’s a story we’re all a part of. It’s
the story upon which all other stories rest. It’s the greatest story ever told, filled
to the edges with the greatest news ever imagined. It’s a story in which life, joy,
and hope are at stake, now and forever. It explains our deepest longings and
our highest hopes. It’s a story no one can escape, though many try.
It’s a story that tells who we are and who we will be. It’s a story that
explains why the world is the way it is and why we long for something more,
something better. It’s a story filled with great evil and immense good, wicked
sin and fantastic grace, the heights of pride and the depths of humility, soul-
numbing hate and wondrous love. It’s a story of restoration.
This is the true story of God. This story has one central character, Jesus the
Christ, one central event, the Cross, one central people, the Church, unified by
one central message, the Gospel.
This Gospel is the good news that “Christ died for our sins”. To bring
us home to God, destroy Satan, forgive sin, reverse the effects of the Fall, and
once-and-for-all create a people for God out of all tribes, tongues and nations
for His glory. The Gospel changes everything.
Tragically, many do not know this God, this story or this gospel. In
fact, many avoid Him, ignore Him, neuter Him, distort Him, domesticate Him,
misunderstand Him, add to or subtract from Him, or simply hate Him. Many,
however, have simply never heard of Him.
So, we must go to them. What you hold in your hands is the beginning of a
new Gospel work - a church - forming in the city of Portland, restoring people
to God through His son, Jesus the Christ. We invite you to read on and join us
as we follow Jesus together.
Surrounded by rivers, paralleled by the towering snow-capped peaks of the
Cascade mountains, and shrouded under cloud cover over 200 days per year,
Portland is a natural anomaly. It’s been called “Bridgetown”, “Rose City”,
“Stumptown”, and, affectionately, by locals as “P-Town”, “Beervana”, and the
metonymous “PDX.” It’s the home of NIKE, Intel, the Simpsons & Futurama,
Harry & David’s, and the brewpub McMenamins.
Portland is a city of polarities: corporate yet raw, smart yet simple,
hopeful yet deeply skeptical, professional yet authentic, established yet
creative, home-grown yet world-wide, independent yet communal, natural yet
technological, traffic-filled yet “green”. On any given day you will see corporate
executives, tourists, exchange students, college hipsters, veteran cyclists, soccer
moms, tattooed baristas, and guitar-toting musicians rubbing shoulders in a
single city block. This is Portland.
Yet, amidst the beauty, creativity, ingenuity, and passion of this city:
■■ Less than 2% of the Portland population identify themselves as Bible-
believing Jesus-loving evangelical Christians.
■■ It maintains the highest per capita in homelessness, child sex trafficking
and sex industry establishments, and a 53% high school graduation rate.
■■ Portland was recently named the most unchurched city in the nation.
■■ The majority of large evangelical churches have either left the city,
moralized or politicized the gospel, or ceased to love the city. As a result,
many are plateaued, declining or dead.
■■ To the average Portlander, particularly in the urban core, evangelical
Protestantism is invisible. Simply put,... Jesus is unknown.
WHY WE EXIST.
The people of Restoration Church exist to restore our neighborhoods to
radical dependence on Jesus.
WHAT WE VALUE.
Knowing God : Jesus
We are a Gospel-centered people. The Gospel is God’s message of good
news; good news that Jesus Christ came to live, die and rise again for the
forgiveness of sin to bring redeemed sinners under God’s gracious reign for
the renewal of all things. The Gospel brings us home to God for life that is
truly life - every day. Our lives are centered in this news.
Genuine Unity: People
As a church, we are a redeemed people, not a place, a meeting or an
institution. The last thing Portland needs is just “another” church that views
the city as a project, but doesn’t genuinely love it. We are a church that
desires the good of the entire city of Portland through the multiplication of
worshipping, redemptive, missional, and sacrificial neighbors.
Personally Engaged: Mission
As the church, we are a people sent across the street to engage others with
the Gospel. The mission of God is to make disciples. God sends His people,
the church, on His mission in our own context.
Unique Expression: Context
We are a church that exists to seek the restoration of our neighbors to Jesus,
through our own unique expression of love. We love Portland. We live here,
work here, play here, and raise our families here. Our neighborhood is
our context. Our city is our strategic center of spiritual, social and cultural
influence.
Multiplication: Doing It Again!
THAT’S WHERE
RESTORATION CHURCH
COMES IN!
AN INTRODUCTION PORTLAND THE MISSION