Loving the World: Getting to Know Andrew & Terri Adair - FPC's Partners in Sending and Assisting Missionaries

Getting to Know ANDREW & TERI ADAIR

FPC's Partners in Sending and Assisting Missionaries

Matthew, Gabrielle, Rebekah, Teri and Andrew Adair

One of the biggest challenges in long term international mission ministry is provision of ongoing help and encouragement needed by those who serve incarnationally. Churches experienced in mission have learned that international “sending ministry” involves many issues that no individual congregation is able to handle consistently at a “best practices” level.

Over the past decade FPC has worked alongside The Antioch Partners (TAP) to support missionaries robustly in every type of need. A key to our work together has been the relationship we have with Andrew and Teri Adair, who serve as TAP’s Executive Director and Personnel Director. In 2021, FPC added to its general support of TAP and individual TAP missionaries by partnering with the Adairs to directly sponsor their work as well.

As we grow together it is a blessing for our congregation to get to know Andrew, Teri, and their three adult children - Rebekah, Matthew and Gabrielle. Here is some of their story: Andrew grew up in Houston, and Teri grew up in Southern California. They met and married while they were studying at Fuller Seminary in Pasadena, CA, where Teri completed a Masters in Cross-cultural Studies and Andrew received a M.Div. with a concentration in Cross-cultural Studies. After Fuller, they served four years on the staff of Highland Park Presbyterian Church in Dallas, where Andrew was an associate pastor and Teri served as the Urban Mission Coordinator. In 1997 they and their young family moved to Central Asia, where they spent nine years serving