Andrea Hesterberg
Home State: International - Europe
Andrea Hesterberg
Certified Since 2023
About Andrea
Andrea Hesterberg is a certified mediator, ACT coach, and Healthy Churches Global Certified Guide based near Duesseldorf, Germany. She works with leadership teams of international churches across Europe.
For over 12 years, she served on the staff of an international church in Duesseldorf, first as Administrative Assistant and later as Church Development Coordinator, where she oversaw leadership development, ministry team training, and onboarding of new members and staff. She knows international church culture from the inside: the informal decision-making dynamics, the intercultural tensions that go unspoken, and the weight a senior pastor carries when a leadership team doesn't fully function as one.
What drives her most is the people she gets to work with. She listens carefully, asks the right questions, and has a gift for finding what matters most beneath the surface of a team's challenges.
Andrea lives in a small town close to Duesseldorf, Germany, with her husband Josh from Colorado, and their three daughters. Wherever she goes, she takes along a book, likes to ride her bike, or take their little dog for a walk in the forest. She enjoys one-on-one time with friends and snowboarding in the wintertime.
Andrea Hesterberg brought an incredible combination of cultural awareness, communication excellence, and servant leadership to our church as she facilitated the process. She did a great job in all three phases of facilitating; i.e. the phases of before, during, and after our meetings. Before coming to our church in person, she provided preparatory materials for our church, carefully reviewed our church’s history, and asked pertinent questions about our church’s desires for growth. During her time with us in person, she masterfully guided workshop sessions that maximized the participation of everyone present. Following our time together in person, she maintained contact with our leadership and gave encouragement on taking next practical steps. Andrea is skilled in moving through all three phases of strategic planning, plus her infectious enthusiasm and energy brings out the positivity in others as well.
I have known Andrea for over ten years and worked with her on several projects regarding church health. She is a skilled mediator, a great team player, and passionate in wanting to see churches become focused and functional bodies of Christ. She has multiple tools to draw upon to find the unique path for each church to become a healthy community of Christ. Fluent in both German and English and part of an international church, she is flexible and aware of the challenges faced by churches who go through a lot of transition and need to constantly rebuild leadership.