On March 19, Reformed College Fellowship made the next announcement:
We’re happy to announce that Mr. Andrew Rein (RE) has acquired a unanimous suggestion by the Everlasting Committee of Reformed University Fellowship to change into the subsequent Coordinator for RUF. Pending the approval of Mr. Rein by the Theological Analyzing Committee and the 52nd Common Meeting in Chattanooga, he’ll start his tenure as Coordinator for RUF on July 1, 2025.
Search Committee Chairman, Tobe Hester, who can also be a member of RUF’s Everlasting Committee shared, “It has been a privilege to serve on the RUF Search Committee and witness firsthand the Lord’s steerage on this course of. After months of prayer, discernment, and dialog, I couldn’t be extra excited to share that Andrew Rein has been named the subsequent Coordinator for RUF pending GA approval this summer season.”
Hester continued, “Andrew is a pacesetter who deeply loves RUF and the scholars it serves. He not solely brings robust management and imaginative and prescient, but in addition a real pastoral coronary heart—one which longs to see college students know Christ, develop of their religion, and serve the church. His understanding of RUF’s mission, his dedication to all of its workers, and his knowledge in navigating each challenges and alternatives make him the proper man for this function. Moreover, his distinctive organizational expertise will permit him to steer with readability and function, guaranteeing that RUF continues to flourish for years to come back.”
About Andrew Rein
Mr. Rein brings intensive skilled expertise and a various background to the function of Coordinator. Most lately, he served as Interim Ministry Director of Hilton Head Presbyterian Church (HHPC) the place Mr. Rein has been a Ruling Elder for fifteen years. Within the Ministry Director function, he led the church and workers by a year-long technique of growing a long-term strategic plan that aligns HHPC’s ministry with its mission: to multiply the worship, renewal, and neighborhood of Jesus to the individuals and locations of the Lowcountry and thru it to the world. HHPC accomplished the strategic planning course of on the finish of February, and Mr. Rein now now not serves on workers, however continues to function a member of HHPC’s Governing Fee.
Previous to becoming a member of the workers of HHPC, Mr. Rein served in varied roles throughout his 14-year tenure at Hargray, a telecommunications firm, together with as CFO from 2015 to 2021. All through his time at Hargray he was a key member of the manager staff that remodeled the small, native phone and cable TV enterprise right into a regional web service supplier that was finally bought to Cable One in 2021.
Earlier than becoming a member of Hargray, Mr. Rein was a important a part of a staff at Entry Spectrum that rationalized spectrum bands (i.e., wi-fi licenses like those utilized by mobile service suppliers), together with persuading the Federal Communications Fee to repurpose the Higher 700 MHz frequency band to make it extra helpful for important infrastructure entities like utilities and railroads.
Whereas Mr. Rein’s skilled expertise is spectacular, it’s his pastoral and winsome method to management alongside together with his pure gifting for imaginative and prescient and technique and his persistent love of RUF over time that led to the search committee’s enthusiastic suggestion of Mr. Rein for the function of Coordinator.
Mr. Rein’s connection to RUF started at Vanderbilt College, the place he acquired a B.S.E. in Mechanical Engineering and graduated summa cum laude with Honors. RUF is the place his understanding of the Gospel fell into place and he developed a biblical worldview, realizing religion impacts every part. It is usually the place he “discovered his individuals” — his spouse, Holly, and plenty of of their lifelong associates.
Holly and Andrew had been married in 2001, and collectively they’ve 4 youngsters, Peter (17), Ellie (15), Sarah Grace (12), and Benjamin (10). The Rein household enjoys soccer, golf, pickleball, fishing, boating, and simply about any out of doors exercise accessible. Mr. Rein can also be an avid fan of Liverpool Soccer Membership.
The Subsequent Chapter for RUF
Everlasting Committee Chairman Josh Martin stated, “Andrew’s love for the Lord, RUF, and the Church, mixed together with his private {and professional} background, uniquely place him to excel as the subsequent Coordinator for RUF. His confirmed management, strategic imaginative and prescient, and organizational acumen, alongside together with his pastoral coronary heart and dedication to the Gospel, give me nice confidence in RUF’s continued progress and impression underneath his steerage. I’m excited to see how God will use Andrew to additional RUF’s mission within the years to come back.”
“I’m excited for RUF and the Rein household,” stated outgoing Coordinator, Will W. Huss, Jr. “Andrew is uniquely gifted for this chance and I’m assured that he’ll do effectively. He loves school college students and Jesus’ mission of reaching and equipping them on campus. We’ve identified one another for a number of years, and related by our experiences as school college students who were considerably impacted by RUF. Andrew has years as a Ruling Elder, a substantial amount of ardour for faculty ministry, organizational experience and gravitas, and a love for the Church. I’m satisfied his coronary heart for this mission will assist RUF to wherever the Lord leads us subsequent. God is at work!”
As he appears to the longer term, Mr. Rein hopes to construct on the present strengths of RUF and allow the ministry to proceed rising for years to come back. He shared, “I’m thrilled to be becoming a member of RUF on this function and it’s a nice privilege to have this chance to work alongside the individuals who have made RUF such a significant ministry. Holly and I are so grateful to RUF for the function it has performed in our lives and we stay up for guaranteeing RUF stays wholesome effectively into the longer term, for the church, for our youngsters, and the generations to comply with.”
