Andy Stanley  Charles Andrew Stanley (born May 16, 1958), known as Andy Stanley, is the senior pastor of North Point Community Church, a nondenominational Christian Church and Buckhead Church, Browns Bridge Church, Gwinnett Church, Woodstock City Church, and Decatur City Church. He also founded North Point Ministries. Andy holds an undergraduate degree in journalism from Georgia State University and a master's degree from Dallas Theological Seminary. Andy Stanley founded North Point Community Church in Alpharetta, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta, in 1995. He is the author of more than 20 books, including The New Rules for Love, Sex & Dating; Ask It; How to Be Rich; Deep & Wide; Enemies of the Heart; When Work & Family Collide; Visioneering; Next Generation Leader; and Irresistible. In 2017, a survey of U.S. pastors in Outreach Magazine identified Andy as one of the ten most influential living pastors in America. Stanley now lives in Milton, Georgia, with his wife Sandra and their three adult children: Andrew, Garrett, and Allie. His father is Charles Stanley, the senior pastor of the First Baptist Church of Atlanta and founder of In Touch Ministries.