Episode 25: 25 Andy Talks Social Media Evangelism

Catching Foxes

Luke and Gomer

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Tv & Film

4.8 • 769 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2015

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Ah yes. Our old pal from college, Andy Lesnefsky. Luke and I remember the living embodiment of a prank phone call. Andy is all grown up now and helped evangelize tens of thousands of people through his #ShareJesus campaign at RedeemedOnline.com last Lent, and is going even bigger for this Advent.

But even more important that #ShareJesus is the way Andy is dedicated to his original work as a high school youth minister. He ditched ladder-climbing years ago and has remained at the same parish for the last 10 years, building relationships and changing lives.

We talk about his founding RedeemedOnline.com because of the total lack of a Social Media strategy by Catholic ministries to engage the billions of people online. His videos last year got 1.5 million views and he's learned a lot from this campaign, which he freely shares on this episode. This one is a keeper. And a sharer. #ShareAndy

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0:00.0	I just remember my favorite, my favorite prank call was when Julie Ruth called one of my ex-girlfriends as me.
0:05.8	And just, like, tried to get.
0:06.7	And she got her to, like, come outside and, like, talk to me about something really serious about a relationship or something like that.
0:11.7	Oh, that's horrible.
0:13.3	That's not funny.
0:14.1	Yeah.
0:14.3	That's mean.
0:14.7	Yeah.
0:15.0	Come on.
0:15.4	Oh, it was funny at the time.
0:26.3	So, Andy, what do you like to be known for?
0:28.2	Lots of things, I guess.
0:33.7	But in particular, in terms of ministry, what do you want to know about me?
0:35.2	Well, are you full-time somewhere?
0:38.9	Yeah, I'm still, I've been a full-time youth minister.
0:47.3	I've been lucky to be at one parish, my entire time of ministry. I've been youth minister at St. Alexis Parish in Wexford, which is North Hills of Pittsburgh. And then kind of what happened, about 2008,
0:58.6	I started doing some graphic design on the side as kind of a side business.
1:05.3	And over time, that's kind of evolved into different things.
1:09.6	And when I first started started I was kind of
1:11.0	doing whatever whatever for for anyone that needed anything you know and uh like a lot of website
1:16.9	stuff yeah my at first I was like I'll do a flyer I'll do a t-shirt I'll do whatever and then
1:22.6	more and more that just became mostly website design because I realized in some ways that was the
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