Andy has served as the Senior Pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in Woodland since 2007. Andy received his MDiv, ThM., and DMin from Western Seminary. Andy has been married to his wife Camille for 26 years and they have three kids, Lilly who attends Grand Canyon University, Gracie who is a senior in high school, and Billy who is in middle school. Andy serves on the board for Seminario De Oeste, a ministry in Mexico that trains and equips pastors. He also serves as an adjunct professor at Western Seminary. Andy has been on the board for VCN several times and currently helps coordinate ordinations. He loves teaching, preaching, and talking about ministry.
He was born and raised in Sacramento and worked as a youth pastor in Atwater and Santa Rosa. In 2005, he moved back to Sacramento to pastor Northside Church. Since Northside Church was a church plant from Arcade Church, he found himself in a network of churches and pastors, now known as Venture Church Network (VCN). In the first several years, the pastors in VCN provided him with the encouragement, equipment, and community he desperately needed. From that experience, Josh saw how vital belonging to VCN is. After serving several years on the board, in 2015, he joined the VCN staff to lead our Ministry Leadership Certificate (MLC) program in partnership with Western Seminary. In 2020, he increased his role by working with our church planters.
Josh graduated from CSU, Sacramento, with a BA in Communications in 2006 and an MDiv from Western Seminary in 2012. In 2023, he received his DMin from Western Seminary on Narcissism and Preaching.
On August 1, 2022, Josh took over the role as Regional Executive Director for the Venture Network Association NCal/NV region.
“To be effective the preacher’s message must be alive; it must alarm, arouse, challenge; it must be God’s present voice to a particular people.”
~A.W. Tozer
“It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true Word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him.”
“In the end, preaching has two basic objects in view: the Word and the human listener. It is not enough to just harvest the wheat; it must be prepared in some edible form or it can’t nourish and delight. Sound preaching arises out of two loves—love of the Word of God and love of people—and from them both a desire to show people God’s glorious grace.”
~Tim Keller
This seminar will cover the basics of studying God’s word and teaching it to others. We’ll talk about Bible study methods, building a good lesson plan, and teaching for transformation.
SESSION DETAILS
Teaching With a Group | Andy Flowers
In this session, we will talk about the basics of preparing and delivering a Bible study lesson in a small group setting. This session will focus on good Bible study methods and how to create good inductive Bible study questions. In this session, we will discuss the basics of preparing and delivering a Bible study lesson in a small group setting. We will also focus on good Bible study methods and how to create good inductive Bible study questions.
Teaching To a Group | Josh Lane
The second session will focus on preaching the word of God to a group. The emphasis of this session will be on how to prepare and deliver a gospel-centered message
DETAILS:
- Date: Friday, February 21, 2025
- Registration Opens: 8:45AM
Time: 9:00AM – 12:00PM - Location:
Calvary Baptist Church of Woodland
506 Cottonwood St, Woodland, CA 95695 | Google Maps - $20, lunch included