EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

BIOGRAPHY OF PASTOR WILLIAM ANDREWS

William Andrews spent seven years living on the streets of Orlando; fifteen years in and out prisons as he affectionately calls it his (installment plan). Twenty years addicted to “every kind of drugs one could think of “until the day he came face to face with Christ and his life has never been the same since.

Today William Andrews is Senior Pastor of The Heart of Mercy Community Church of the Nazarene on Mercy Drive in Orlando Florida; Pastor Andrews attended Springfield Technical Community College in Springfield Massachusetts with an Associate Degree in Broadcast Journalism. He attended the University of Massachusetts, Boston campus where he studied political Science. William was ordained elder in the Church of the Nazarene in 2005 after finishing his ministerial studies at the Nazarene Bible Institute of Central Florida.

Pastor Andrews’s long involvement in the community started at Restore Orlando Inc., where he served as Senior Pastor and a member of the Board of Directors. William was appointed by City Commissioner Robert Stuart to serve as one of the representatives for the City of Orlando on the Central Florida Regional Commission on Homelessness. He continues his involvement in the community as one of the founders of the Mercy Drive Corridor Initiative along with First Presbyterian Church of Orlando and Jobs Partnership. Pastor Andrews continues to work to bring the various partnerships and resources to the Mercy Drive Community and its residents.