Andy Hawthorne

Andy Hawthorne, OBE is a British evangelist, author, and founder of The Message Trust, a Christian mission organisation based in Manchester, UK.

He has been a speaker at New Wine, Spring Harvest, Soul Survivor, Keswick Convention, and other Christian conferences in the UK.

They also work internationally in Cape Town, South Africa, Vancouver, Canada, and Annaberg-Buchholz, Germany.

Invited to speak on the theme of 'Raising the aspirations of young people', he said, ‘The Bible works, and Jesus is the answer...

The more we invest in today’s young people the values that God gave us in this book, the better our society will become.’[10] In 2018, Hawthorne was a key figure in launching Advance 2020, a coordinated campaign by Christian ministries to deliver a major evangelistic push in the UK in 2020.

[11] Speaking about the campaign, he said, ‘I felt like we need to see a multiplication of the evangelist gift, but also in Isaiah 60 it says, "assemble my people," and I felt like we need to start going big again.’[12] In 2022, Hawthorne and The Message Trust partnered with the Luis Palau Association for a second time to put on Festival Manchester.

Coming out of the first Covid 19 lockdown in 2020, Andy and The Message Trust pioneered a Community Grocery[13] in Sharston, near Wythenshawe, giving those who were finding it hard to keep their families fed access to affordable food and wrap-around support.