About Us
Staff
Mike Arrington
Executive Director
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Mike Arrington, a founding member of The Operation Andrew Board of Trustees, assumed the role of Executive Director in February 2009. He is responsible for the successful leadership and overall management of The Operation Andrew Group. Mike served for 15 years as Vice President for Corporate Affairs at LifeWay Christian Resources, where he oversaw the corporate communications program and the public relations strategies and plans, the programs and services of LifeWay’s national conference centers, and the corporate capital resource development activities.
Since relocating to Nashville in 1991, he has been active in local civic affairs, including serving as chairman of the board for the Nashville/Middle Tennessee Fellowship of Christian Athletes. He is also a member of the Nashville Rotary Club and served as chairman of the Tennessee Prayer Breakfast Citizen’s Committee. He holds a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from Texas A & M University, and completed additional study through the American Management Association, the University of Houston executive development program and the Levinson Institute in Boston.
He and his wife Paula have two grown children and five grandchildren, and attend Forest Hills Baptist Church where Mike serves as a deacon.
Charles McGowan
President
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Dr. McGowan, a founding member of the Operation Andrew Board of Trustees, assumed the Presidency after he "retired" as Senior Pastor of Christ Presbyterian Church where he served for over 15 years. He served as an officer in U.S. Army intelligence following graduation from Davidson College. Before entering Columbia Theological Seminary, he served for several years with the Office of Naval Intelligence. Now, after over forty years as pastor of a local church, he enjoys focusing on his passion of seeing walls that separate Christians broken down so that the fulfillment of prayer of Jesus (John 17:21) might be evident for all to see.
While remaining active in the Presbyterian Church in America, he ministers broadly to the Body of Christ in Nashville and across the nation. He and his wife Alice have been married for 50 years and delight in God's gift of four children and sixteen grandchildren.
Bob Cook
Vice President
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Bob Cook was born and reared in Springfield, Tennessee, one of three children, and the son of a Baptist minister and wife. He graduated from Greenbrier High School in 1964, from Tennessee Temple University in 1969, and from Temple Theological Seminary in 1972. Bob returned to his hometown and home church in Springfield to follow his father as pastor of Tabernacle Baptist Church from 1972-1981. In October, 1976, the mother church started a mission congregation in White House, Tennessee, the Tri-County Baptist Church (The Church at Grace Park). After pastoring both congregations for nearly 5 years, Bob began pastoring the daughter congregation full time in 1981 and has pastored it until the present.
In 2001, Bob began serving on the Operation Andrew Board as the Vice-Chairman and later became a part-time employee of OA serving on staff as Vice-President.