His Passion:
Bringing deep empathy and compassion to his Prayer Counseling sessions, Tommy Andersen demonstrates the Father’s love, comfort, and care for each person. He is very much like a spiritual detective looking for the clues that expose the root causes of your problem. His greatest pleasure is leading you to a place of relief from anger, fear, guilt, shame, and all areas of deep woundedness and brokenness. He gently inspires your trust through his non-threatening acceptance of you.
Tommy, through the leading of the Holy Spirit, is ultimately able to release you into your divine destiny, finding your true, life purpose. Testimonial: “Tommy has a genuine gift of gentleness that will transport you into a universe of acceptance, love, and trust that is a perfect demonstration of the love of our Abba Father. His giftedness will prepare you to receive restoration and newness of life.”
His Mission Statement:
Tommy’s mission is to get to the root causes of your problems quickly based on Scriptural truth, discernment, and the Holy Spirit’s guidance. He then uses the divine strategies of the Gospel to identify and then eliminate these causes, thus empowering true lasting sanctification and transformation in your life. Tommy flows with the Holy Spirit in tenderness and a strong touch of the Father’s love and heart. This prophetic inner healing and transforming anointing will bring lifelong freedom and change into your life and relationships.
His Specialties:
Tommy enjoys and is skilled with diverse populations, including, men, couples, and children, leading them to overcome their painful and damaging past through awakening God’s love and grace in their lives. He specializes in dealing with your hurts, fears, anger, shame, and guilt. If your struggle with anger, he shows you how to embrace it—be it good or bad anger. Then, he leads you to victory, teaching you how to express anger appropriately. Helping married couples connect with each other heart-to-heart is another of Tommy’s specialties. Coaching people suffering from destiny malaise, he can help you get unstuck and move into your promised future, including recognizing and putting to use your natural and spiritual gifts, skills, and talents. Tommy, further, has effective experience in areas such as:
- Anxiety, fear
- Depression
- Body Image Issues
- Low self-esteem
- Parenting Challenges
- Codependency
- Assertiveness & Self-esteem
- Grief and loss
- Trauma Recovery
- Pre Marital counseling
- Marital/Couples counseling
- Young Adult Issues
- Male Sexual, physical and emotional abuse
- Sexual Identity Issues
- Anger Management
His Roots:
Tommy, born and raised in Norway, was born again at the age of 12 and had a call to serve God from the very beginning. He served in Norway in The Norwegian Santal Mission, now merged with Normisjonen. He also co-founded and pastored Family Fellowship Christian Church and Family Fellowship Christian School in Berwyn, IL. While doing Prayer Counseling ministry part-time, Tommy also worked a full-time job with mentally challenged adults for over 18 years, before taking up his position as Co-Director at FHM in January 2006 serving in this position to January 2016.
His Background:
Tommy is currently a Freedom House Ministries (FHM) active Prayer Counselor. He counsels, teaches, and preaches, along with offering conferences, seminars, workshops, and retreats. He leads Prayer Counseling Schools that train lay ministers, pastors, and professionals in the ministry of Prayer Counseling and, in addition, facilitates Prophetic Schools. He is also an inspirational and motivational leader and speaker. Due to his Kingdom perspective, which extends love to the whole Body of Christ, Tommy is able to interact and work with people from many different denominations, churches, and ministries.
His Training:
His initial spiritual training was received through the Norwegian Youth With A Mission (Ungdom I Oppdrag or UIO). The rich teachings from ministers from around the world impacted him deeply, and living in Christian community provided many family roll-models and mentors. At 17-years-old, Tommy was one of the youngest summer team leaders in UIO. Following his service in UIO and in the Norwegian Royal Navy, Tommy traveled to the USA to study at Bible School in Wisconsin, where he met his wife Mari Anne. They were later invited back to serve on staff at the Bible School.
His Family:
Tommy and his wife, Mari Anne, have been married over 40-year. They have three adult children, a wonderful son-in-law, a beautiful daughter-in-law, three delightful grandsons and two precious granddaughters.
Tommy Provides the Following Prayer Counseling Sessions:
- One hour at a time, or more upon request.
- Only Online by Skype, FaceTime, Zoom or Facebook Messenger
- A week intensive, consisting of 3-hours of Prayer Counseling each evening, over 3 days, 9-hours in total.
- Tommy provides Prayer Counseling in English and Norwegian.