Inroduction

Hey everyone! My name is Andrew Farr
I'm 26 years old
I'm from Pell City, AL
I love Jesus
I love football
I love fitness
I have a passion inspiring and giving hope to so many people
I went to high school at Pell City High School
I then went to attend college and play football for East Carolina University
I graduated with a B.S. Degree in Communication Studies
I attend church at Church of the Highlands in Birmingham, AL
I now attend ministry school at Highlands College and pursuing God's calling on my life
I'm completely honest
I try to be myself and be a Godly man every single day
I'm not perfect, I'm just forgiven.
So glad you stopped by to check out my blog :)


Well this my first time blogging so if my grammar, spelling or whatever I post doesn't make any sense...Oh well. lol Anyways, just to tell you a little bit more of myself and how I found Jesus. I was born and grew up in a little city called Pell City, Al. Pretty the only exciting thing to do here was just your Friday Night Lights and your Saturday College football games. Here, your either Alabama or Auburn, if your neither, then you are hated. lol but that's the life and city I grew up in. Not saying it is a bad place live where there's a lot of crimes going on I'm just telling that's what to be expected if you come strolling in here with some colors on other than crimson and white or orange and blue.

After graduating high school in 2005, I attended a Military Academy in Chatham, VA known as Hargrave Military Academy . I attended the academy to try to receive another football scholarship and get my grades in order. I was there for 5 months, got my grades in order and received a full ride football scholarship to East Carolina University. When I moved to ECU my freshman year in January of 2006, I can honestly say that I was the happiest I had ever been. I was away from my family, I was on full ride scholarship, had my freedom and was living the dream. Life couldn't get any better for me.

Me in the ECU vs UTEP game in 2008



Well, in August of 2007, I had hit rock bottom. My heart got shattered and fell into a deep depression. I seriously could not function at all. I was just a mess. I fell behind in my studies, football, could not eat, could not sleep. I was basically living in pure hell. People would've looked and though I was happy on the outside, but on the inside I was just dying. So what did I do to try to numb the pain, I turned to alcohol, bars, clubs and porn. It was at that moment when I became so bitter towards my friends, family, other people and began to hate God. I truly had a grudge against God. I was like, "God, you say you love me but my life is falling apart and you don't do anything to help me!" "If you don't care then why should I?!" This went on for a good 5 months.

I would wake up in the morning with a hangover from drinking too much and partying hard the night before and would just cry and be absolutely miserable. So one night, it was January of 2008, I went to the student rec center with one of my former teammates to workout and see if I could just relieve some stress but obviously it still didn't work. So after we were done, we go out to the parking and it was right there I had made up my mind, I wanted to die. I wanted to commit suicide. I just had enough, If God or the things I had turned to wasn't going to end my pain, then my only last resort was suicide.

So with my mind made up, I get in my friends truck and before we could leave the parking lot, his truck dies. So I was like, "Great, now what?!" Well suddenly, we see tons of people walking out of this building that was beside the rec center and my friend tells me to wait in the truck and he'll see if someone from the crowd will jump us off. Well he manages to get 3 guys who we have never seen. They pull their vehicle around and jump us off. I get out of the truck thank them for helping us out. As I was about to get back in the truck, one of them stops me. He looked at me and said, "It's amazing how God works." I was like, "Huh?" He points to the truck and says, "You see bud, this truck was pretty much dead but when we jumped off from ours, it was brought back to life." At that point I had no clue where he was going with all this.

He then says, "You see, a person who is without Christ, is dead inside but when they receive Christ, they're alive." I was like, "Who are you guys?" They were all college campus ministers. So after sharing their faith with me, one of asks me a question, he said, "Son, are you tired, miserable and just so messed that you just wanna give up.?" It was like he read me like a book, I couldn't believe all this was happing. The night I wanted to take my own life, I ended up running into these guys. I told him, "Yes sir, I dying and I want to literally die because I'm just tired of it all." All three of them then prayed over me and that moment, they led me to Jesus Christ. It was a crazy experience but when I said the prayer, I instantly felt the love of God all over me and instantly, I was changed.

Me and couple of my friends at Campus Harvest in Raleigh, NC

Now I will not sit here and say that even though I got saved that night, it was all walking on sunshine cuz it wasn't. As soon as I got saved, I got hit hard by the enemy aka satan because when someone gives their heart to Jesus, he is not only mad but is terrified because he knows that God has a great plan and future for that person's life. So fast forward a few years, I graduated from ECU, moved to charlotte for about a year and a half and then had to move back to Alabama due to being laid off from my job.

So the past year and a half, I was constantly searching why I was placed on this earth. I know that we all were not born just to exist and live in survival mode. Yes, I went to a University, played college football on espn and sportscenter and received a college degree but I still felt like there was way more for me out there than just this degree I have and just going to work every day, coming home and repeating it over the next day. I was like I don't wanna work the same meaningless job every single day, I truly believe that there is something more than what I'm living for.

So one day I went to my room and I just prayed to God. I said, "Lord, this life I'm in now, it's not what I want and I'm miserable and I want something more and better." I then told God that if He would please give me a future, hope and a passion for something great, I surrender my entire heart and life to Him and follow Him. Afterwards, I felt led to do a fast for 21 days. My main focus while doing this fast was to just hear from the Lord and what He wanted me to do. While doing the fast, I got involved in a church which my church that I attend still to this very day which is called Church of the Highlands.

As I attended the church, I met so many great people and it was throught them that God was speaking to me. They would tell me, "Andrew, we since power and authority on your life. God has an amazing plan for you." I didn't know what to think at that moment cuz I was, "Ok, then what is it?" Then after the fast, I went to church on day and it was at that moment where I felt the Lord speak to my heart give me my calling. I could feel Him saying, "Ministry." At that moment, I was like moses when he found God in the burning bush. I told God, "Lord, you got the wrong person." Days I fought with God telling Him I can't do it. I gave him so many excuses like, "Lord, I'm ADD, I can't talk right, I get stage fright, people are gonna think I'm crazy and laugh at me."

That was in fall of 2011 and the entire year of 2012, I ran from it and decided I was gonna do my own thing somewhere else. I told God, "Lord, I'm sorry but I can't do it. I'll never stop serving or loving you but ministry isn't for me." So I made up my mind, I wasn't going to fulfill God's calling on my life and was just gonna go do my own thing but there's one thing I learned, no matter how far you think you can run, you can never and will never out run God. So towards the end of 2012, I hit rock bottom. An unfortunate circumstance happened in my life and then it happened again spring of 2013.

I was like, "Why? Why me God?" Then I felt the Lord speak to me. He said, "Andrew, I love you too much to let you blow everything I have in store for you." I then realized that God is a jealous God towards His children and will do whatever He has to do to get our attention. So it was at that moment I told God, "Ok Lord, I'm done running. I'm yours and I will do what you have called me to do." So now I've just started pastoral ministry at Highlands College here in Birmingham and I can say that God's plan was and is way better than my own. He has given me such a passion and desire for ministry and what I want to do with and where I want to take it.

My great friend/mentor Pastor Rick Dykes preparing to baptize me

Everything that we go through is all part of us reaching God's purpose for our lives. We can think we can either run from God and do things our own way or we can become who He's called us to be. You can try all you want to think you can do it your way but I promise you this, you will never be happy or satisfied until you fulfill God's calling on your life. Don't live a life of what could've been, live a life of who you were born to be. We were all meant to be more than conquers, we are warriors within.

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God Bless

Andrew Farr