About Terry
Short Introduction (1.5 minutes)
Most days, you'll find Terry out in his garden. More often than not, ambling between roses and perennials, living by the motto that he loses much who has no aptitude for idleness. Terry lives with his wife Judith, and son Zachary, on Vashon, an island in the Puget Sound, near Seattle, Washington, where "ferry" is the sole mode of travel. Rule of thumb: if you have to go anywhere, don't be in a hurry. And yes, he tolerates the rain, so long as he is able to spend some time each winter on Kauai. He is also a rabid Seattle Mariner baseball fan. And he is unabashedly addicted to golf.
Terry
was born and raised in Michigan, making it hard to fully purge the
University of Michigan blue and gold. His education was a potpourri
safari: from Fort Wayne, Indiana to London, England, to Upland,
Indiana, to Pasadena, California. His degrees are in Philosophy and
Theology from Taylor University and Fuller Theological Seminary, in
case anyone is wondering. Armed with two degrees, and fueled by some
latent workaholism, Terry spent the next five years as a youth
minister, an intern minister, a personnel director for a missionary
organization in Japan, and a public relations officer for a firm
working in Uganda, Africa.
It took a divorce to slow him down. A crisis that allowed him to reassess his vocational journey. Like it or not, crossroads of that magnitude make you take notice. The next few years Terry spent as a minister of single adults and small groups at a southern California church. During that time, the seed of change from his earlier crisis had begun to take root. It led to the founding of Hershey & Associates, an organization that provides seminars around the theme of building healthy relationships -- all of which requires heavy doses of grace, personal responsibility, and the emphasis on our need to slow down long enough, to let our souls catch up with our bodies.
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An Interview with Terry Hershey
at the Spiritual Formation Conference
This interview is a great introduction to Terry's message and answers some common questions.
VIDEO: Part
1, 18
minutes (14 MB), Part 2,
20 minutes (17 MB)
AUDIO: Part
1, 18
minutes (3.2 MB), Part
2, 20
minutes (4.0 MB)
These videos are in Window Media Format. Audios are in MP3 format.
