Andy Piercy

Andy Piercy - Investing in Worship
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"As former Vicar of Holy Trinity Brompton, I have known Andy Piercy for at least twenty years, as a long-standing and fully committed member of the congregation, and as a staff member of the HTB worship team.

When I became Vicar of HTB in 1985, morning worship was almost exclusively led by a professional robed choir.Andy was invited to join the HTB staff in the early 1990s shortly after our decision to introduce a more welcoming informal Sunday morning family service.At my request, he gradually developed an extremely effective style of worship, showing great sensitivity to the views of the church leadership and of the congregation as a whole.

Since then, Andy has been very closely involved in the gradual development of a worship style that is easily adaptable for use in Sunday services, national and international conferences, church training courses and smaller "pastorate" groups.His musical and technical experience and expertise are invaluable, and he has always been a good team member, working equally well with amateur or professionally trained musicians.

Andy has always encouraged people to take pleasure in worship and perhaps one of his greatest gifts is his ability to draw others into his own great enthusiasm for worshipping God.He is not so much a leader as an encourager of worship whose enthusiasm and sensitivity can quickly inspire a gathering of people of all ages, talents and musical tastes to join together with him in wholehearted worship of God!
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"I have known Andy Piercy for over a decade, and have never failed to be stretched by his creativity, encouraged by his pastoral heart, and blessed by his friendship.
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I mention these different areas because whatever situation you find yourself in with Andy, you always get the same man . . . a humble heart, who loves to worship and create an environment for worship.
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"When we first started out writing, recording and leading worship, Andy was there to guide us through and watch our first baby steps.
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"Andy has an amazing heart to equip and train both musicians and worship leaders.Whether it's bringing encouragement, input to develop individual gifts or teaching to resource teams Andy is amazing.He has enormous experience and is a person I hugely admire and respect.I'd always listen very closely to anything Andy had to say!"
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"Andy Piercy is the sort of guy who can come into any worship situation and immediately add value.His professionalism, expertise and experience has been wonderfully packaged by God within an individual who is instantly likeable and who is able to relate to a wide spectrum of people.He has made a lasting impression not only in the Vine Christian Fellowship but in the wider Hong Kong Church.We are looking forward to a long lasting relationship with Andy as a special friend that will result in a harvest of committed, skilled worship leaders and teams.
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"Andy expressed and explained a lot of what I felt within myself about music ministry but had not been able to put into words before.
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"We recently had Andy Piercy here in Hong Kong for a training/teaching session with our worship team members and also leading our contemporary style worship service on the Sunday morning.

The training session was excellent with Andy having some quality input into the lives of the worship leaders, musicians and singers.He taught some very practical and Biblical aspects of worship, along with some skills and ideas on how to be more effective in leading the congregation to worship God.He encouraged.He inspired.He motivated.

On Sunday his obvious strength in leading both the team and the congregation in worship, combined with a very relaxed and personable approach to everyone, contributed to yet another very good worship service.
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I strongly encourage you to allow Andy to spend time with your worship leaders, singers and musicians, and also to allow him to lead worship in your church.He is a breath of fresh air and inspires everyone to new levels of worship that is both of quality and enjoyable.God will bless you and enrich you greatly as you allow Andy to be amongst you."
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"Last weekend around 35 christian musicians, worship leaders and their teams gathered for a time of worship training with Andy Piercy.Coming from all over Slovenia, most of them were between 17 and 25 years old, serving their local congregations in the Catholic Church in Slovenia.

It was not just a time of learning how to do worship; it was more of an ongoing worship experience all the time!Andy not only taught us many useful and practical aspects of worshipping, but introduced us to the presence of the Lord, who is worthy of all our enthusiasm, creativity and praise.
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Everyone pressed us for another day in 6 months - so Andy, God willing we look forward to seeing you again in the Autumn.

Thank you and thank God for our wide community."

Andy Piercy - Investing in Worship
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Andy was part of the worship leading team at Holy Trinity Brompton in London from 1993 to 2006.
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Before that Andy spent 3 years as one half of a musical duo working as full-time evangelists around the UK

He is married to Judy and they have three daughters, Ellen, Holly and Laura.