Andy Briesmeister - Futura Equipment   Personal Name: Andrew (Andy) Briesmeister (51)    ab@futurequip.com Family: Wife - Deborah (47), Samuel (21), Elisa (18), Benjamin (7) Education: Andy, BS Manufacturing Engineering,                               Deborah, BS Chemistry (Corporate Quality Systems Manger for Tree Top) Business: Futura Equipment Corporation (Design, Build, Install food processing machinery)    http://www.futurequip.com Hobbies: Sailing, target shooting, hiking Home Church: Yakima Foursquare Church   How it Started – I grew up attending a Lutheran church and lived in the Seattle area. At 17 years old I attended a bible study and was introduced to the concept of a personal relationship with Jesus. After a second bible study I quizzed the leader about her relationship with the Lord and she shared her personal testimony of healing. She said that she wanted to show the love Jesus showed her, to other people for the rest of her life.  At that moment I gave my heart and life to the Lord. Several months later I received the baptism in the Holy Spirit by while visiting St. Luke’s Episcopal which was pastored by Dennis and Rita Bennett at the time (1970). I met my wife Deborah during my senior year of high school at Maranatha Chapel in south Seattle.   Personal Passion – I have a strong teaching and prophetic motivation.  My passion is a high regard for scripture and a drive to be an example of Kings and Prophets that shape history, by prophetically speaking what God is saying, into existence.  During our mid-twenties Debbie and I were the shepards of a church for a two-and-a-half year stretch of our development. As a young man I had an opportunity to work as a machinist apprentice and learned that I was gifted at design and building complex mechanical equipment. While attending college I obtained a degree in Manufacturing Engineering. Then I worked at a large food processing company as a Project and Process Engineer.  That gave me opportunity to design and build new machinery.  While in college I received a prophetic word that I was involved in “something artistic” and the prophet asked, “Do you want to do it as a business.”  Inventing processes and equipment got in my blood.  We started Futura Equipment when I was 39 years old. We have several patents and are incorporating them into equipment we design as well as marketing them separately.  My prophetic gift is rooted in a strong prayer life such that when I see a need for a design I start with prayer.  Creative inventions come from times of meditating before the Lord and “picturing” solutions.   Personal Benefits – There is joy and fulfillment in mixing a prophetic gift with the challenge of new designs and inventions. There is great satisfaction is receiving creative revelation from the Lord and carrying it through to an application. Having my own company provides a format for sheparding the staff which varies from 5-12 depending on the contract loads. Being entrepreneurial and creative is a great outlet for prophetic motivation and gifting. “You learn the need for prayer.”   Value to Others – Our business has a substantial impact on the food processing industry.  Our equipment facilitates economic production of larger volumes of processed food at higher quality.  In the process of leading my own company there are many opportunities to teach and impart the concept of being led and empowered by the Holy Spirit.  We also get to see the fruit of changed lives in employees, suppliers and customers.   Business Potential (Upside) – I am the primary stock holder of Futura Equipment Corporation which has an excellent reputation for design, fabrication, and installation of food processing equipment.  In addition to a profitable ongoing business, the inventions we have patented have a huge potential for financial returns.   Business (Downside) – An engineering business based on contracts has a marketing dimension and economic cycles that facilitate prayer.  Our staff can vary from about 5 to 12 employees depending on the work load. The variable nature of the work load and the kind of contracts spawns creativity and draws on the prophetic gifting.   Vision for the Kingdom – My vision is to see the blessing of God on businesses both financially and for ministry.  My commitment to the Word has steered toward equipping pastors and planting churches.  (Peter Wagner often says that the fastest way to make new disciples is to plant new churches).  The practical application for this vision has translated to sponsoring Destiny Bible Colleges in Africa through Worldcast Ministries.    I came to the realization that only $320 per year covers the cost of training one pastor in Africa that is committed to plant a church as part of his / her graduation agreement.  Over a decade the normal pastor in Africa leads 1000 people to the Lord.  What a deal, what an investment in God’s Kingdom.  If people live by the Word, AIDS will stop in its tracks.   We travel to Africa on ministry trips and have sponsored part or all of several Destiny Bible Colleges. One of my goals is to work with other business people to encourage and build-up their Kingly ministries – prosperity, personal encouragement, and involvement in missions.  I currently meet weekly with other businessmen in Yakima, Washington.   The levels of involvement to support Destiny Bible Colleges in Africa are: $320 per year supports one student committed to starting and pasturing a church. $9000 per year supports an existing Bible College with 30 to 60 students (there are currently 11 areas in Africa and the Philippines with operating Destiny Bible Colleges). $30,000 establishes a new Bible College including property and campus construction for 30-60 students. If you would like more information please feel free to contact Andy Briesmeister by email (ab@futurequip.com) or phone (509-972-3300). You can learn more about this ministry at http://www.worldcastministries.com/adopt_project.asp.   Impact of Releasing Kings – Andy Briesmeister was one of the first to read the manuscript of “Releasing Kings” and wrote an endorsement that was included in the book.  Personally, the book clarified the picture for people called to do both ministry and business.  He was left with the sense of, “You can do it too.”