Pastor Andreas Fischer was born in West Germany in 1967. After high school, his father blessed him with the opportunity to live as a foreign exchange student in Los Angeles for one year—a life-changing experience. Upon returning to Germany, he completed his college education, graduating with majors in physics and English. He then pursued an apprenticeship with an international logistics company, earning state certification in international logistics after three years of study—a skill that would soon open doors back to the United States.

In 1991, the company recognized his talent and sent him to South Florida to help open a new branch office. It was there, amid the vibrant American landscape, that Andreas encountered Jesus Christ and became deeply involved in his local church, marking the beginning of his spiritual transformation.

His Mission with Kathy: Panama

In 1994, Andreas married his wife, Kathy, and together they sensed God's call to something greater in ministry. In 2001, they were commissioned as missionaries to Panama, Central America, where they oversaw a Pentecostal church conference. They traveled extensively across the country, partnering with visiting church groups to construct new churches and provide training in finance, administration, organization, and spiritual leadership for existing congregations.

Four years later, in 2005, Andreas received clear direction from his home church to plant a new church in Panama City and later secure a permanent building. The young congregation quickly established a nonprofit foundation, launching immediate outreach in the city's high-risk inner-city areas—neighborhoods often marked by violence and vulnerability.

Andreas served for seven years on the Municipal Committee for Violence Prevention in Panama City, securing government contracts and partnerships with USAID, the U.S. Embassy, the Panamanian federal government, United Way, and the Mayor's office. These efforts focused on keeping children and teenagers in school and steering them away from gangs through education, support, and hope.

Panama Outreach & Impact

The church expanded its reach with creative sidewalk truck ministry—featuring clowns, music, and puppets—to touch thousands of children and families in slum areas. Medical teams provided free general healthcare and prescription medications to countless low-income residents.

A standout initiative was a violence-prevention project that empowered teenagers in government-designated "red zones" or high-risk/gang territories. Participants wrote short film scripts based on real-life experiences or daily realities in their communities. Pastor Andreas handled filming and editing, and the films aired nationally at 8:00 p.m. after the evening news—often topping ratings. The young creators appeared in live radio/TV interviews, including a full hour on the prominent political program Debate Abierto, where they shared their hearts, challenges, and visions for positive change.

After the broadcasts, participants and their families joined a grand awards ceremony with the TV station, government officials, ambassadors, and community leaders to screen the films and receive trophies for categories like Best Actor/Actress, Best Script, and Best Short Film. These short films are available on the Panama church's YouTube channel (MUVApanama1), where they have garnered significant views and continue to inspire. Each year, the foundation produced five films across distinct high-risk areas, reaching and transforming lives.

Recent Chapter: A Time of Reflection

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic brought all church and foundation activities to a sudden halt due to Panama's strict lockdowns, closing operations for nearly a year. During this season of stillness, Pastor Andreas dove deeper into study, prayer, and reflection on world events—leading him to write his first book, The Illusion of Choice.

A Fruitful Season & New Horizons (2025–2026)

Emerging from the reflective season of 2020, Pastor Andreas experienced a powerful outpouring of revelation and productivity. In 2025, he published six impactful books that build on the foundation of his first work, The Illusion of Choice. These include:

• New Beginnings
• Freedom from Debt-Slavery
• The Spiritual Nomad (Parts 1 & 2)
• QSQ Church Structure
• Who Am I?

Each book distills biblical truths, personal experiences, and practical principles for overcoming challenges, walking in freedom, discovering identity in Christ, and living victoriously in today's world. These resources not only reflect the heart of the ministry but also serve as foundational teaching tools—available for personal study, church groups, sermon series, and seminars booked directly through PAF Victorious Living.

Then, in 2026, a new chapter began with the official launch of PAF Victorious Living—a ministry born from over 24 years of faithful service in Panama alongside Kathy. Drawing on deep relationships built with pastors and churches across Latin America, the United States, Asia, and beyond, this new expression extends the Gospel through dynamic sermon series, seminars, and church visits worldwide. All funds raised support ongoing and expanding mission work in key regions, including India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Mauritius, and Central/South America.

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Praise God for you Pastor Andreas.

Such a pleasure to connect with you.

What part of the world are you in today?

Well, today we're connecting.

I'm here in South Florida, where it's nice and hot.

In terms of how you've been thrown around the world, right?

From what I've read from Germany, then all the way to Los Angeles, and then back to South Florida, and then South America.

Did you ever see that as being part of what you would actually be doing in life?

At the beginning, I have to be honest, not really.

When I moved from Germany to Florida, that was because of a company transfer.

I worked for a logistics company in Bremen, Germany, and they opened a branch office in Florida.

And the idea was for me to stay there for a year or two to help open the office and then gain some experience.

I was a young guy in my early 20s, and just learn a little more of English and get the experience and then come back.

Things just didn't turn out that way.

I stayed in Florida because the company I worked for went bankrupt, unfortunately.

I met my wife, and I started going to church.

I got saved, and that's when everything changed.

Honestly, after I got saved, I got the realization of what my calling, what God's purpose was for my life.

I never looked back.

Yes, I've been back to Germany for visits, but my home was Florida first for a few years, then it was Panama for 25 years.

Now recently, we moved back to Florida, and now we're doing international missions in Asia.

Honestly, I had no clue.

I did not expect that at all.

I could not foresee it, but that's the amazing thing when you serve God.

How did you meet Kathy, actually?

My coworker had a son, and he was active in a youth group.

He knew Kathy, and he kept inviting me to go to church.

I actually met my wife at church.

Where does Panama come in?

We were at our home church.

My wife and I both had nine to five jobs, but we volunteered heavily in our church.

In our home church, they trained us.

We went to so many different ministries as volunteers because we knew that we had a calling to the missions field.

We both were aware of that, so we prepared for that.

The first thing we did was we started budgeting, and we became debt-free because we didn't want to burden people that gave to our mission to pay off the debt that we had incurred before.

We really didn't think about leaving until all of our debt was paid off.

Once that was done, we applied to a Bible college that specialized on missions.

But while we were in the process of going through that application stuff and everything, our bishop just called us to church one Saturday and said, hey, you guys, look, there's a missions opportunity for Panama.

They need a couple urgently to go to Panama and oversee a church conference down there.

Are you guys interested?

That was like, school or Panama?

Let's go to Panama.

So basically, six months later, that was in September of 2000, April 1st, 2001, we touched ground in Panama.

We threw everything into a 40-foot container, our car and furniture and everything, and we just started in Panama.

It was a complete life change.

People thought we were crazy.

My dad was not happy at all because he's still back in Germany.

He's like, how can you give up your future and your retirement as a dad?

God's going to take care of us.

We're going to go on the missions field.

So we left.

Panama is primarily Spanish, yeah?

My wife is Panamanian from birth, but she migrated to the States when she was 12.

So she spoke Spanish, so she was my translator.

My Spanish words were buenos dias, buenos noches, hallelujah, and amen.

That's what I knew in Spanish when I got there.

So I had to learn Spanish while I was down there.

Like they say, I learned on the job.

So was it difficult getting into Panama and setting up the church?

I mean, I have to be honest.

I mean, the first four years, we mostly did missions work, which means we traveled the country a lot, and we oversaw churches and stuff.

Then in 2006, 2005, 2006, we got instructions to open a church in the main capital in Panama City itself.

And we did that, and obviously, missions work from traveling and talking to pastors, and to being a pastor yourself and opening a church are two completely different things.

The opening wasn't difficult, but as you can imagine, as foreigners and as a pastor and missionary, you go through a lot of things in the ministry, but at the end, it all came out victorious.

So we learned, we learned, we learned, and we learned a lot.

That's what it is this way.

Where did that come from, that ability to face challenges head on, hit your head against the wall, but still keep going?

Most people would always say, it's your faith in Jesus, your faith in the world.

And obviously, that's a big part of it.

But I think, the way I look at Scripture, and the example I always like to give, which I use in one of my books, is Gideon.

Gideon was in the wine press hiding and all scared and didn't know what to do, and there was oppression, and he was trying to stay alive.

And here comes the angel of God and says to him, hey, mighty warrior.

And he's like, who are you talking about?

You're talking about me?

And he didn't know himself what he was able to do.

He didn't know what was in him.

And God showed him that.

And I kind of think that's the same thing that happened to me.

I didn't really realize what I could do until God got into my life and I turned everything over to Him.

And that really unlocked a lot of the potential, and the creativity, and the administration skills, and the networking skills.

I mean, everything that I'm doing, I give praise to God, because I didn't know it was there before.

But once the Holy Spirit takes over, it just unlocks everything, and it just comes out.

I mean, we basically just started doing stuff.

I didn't know how to do many things.

I said, well, let's just do it, and we just did it.

And the Holy Spirit guides you.

That's all I can say to that.

When did you get the title of the book?

It was the first book I've published, but it was the third or fourth book I was working on.

And the illusion of choice basically came to me during prayer time, when I was dealing with certain things personally in my life, because of the choices and decisions I had made.

And they led me down a wrong path, even as a believer.

And so I started investigating what I could find principles about making choices in your life.

And I figured out that, and I saw that we're so influenced from many outside factors that influence our decision making.

And we think we make independent choices, but we really don't, because there's so much influence that's bombarding us from all of us.

We're consumers.

We consume information at such a high rate.

So it's very hard for people to make decisions that are truly free from outside influence.

And the remedy I found in the Bible was that people that actually know what God has called them to do with their lives, their purpose, their calling, then you make decisions that are free from outside influence.

And there's many, many examples in the Bible, like look at the Apostle Paul.

Before Jesus came into his life, he made decisions based on his environment.

He was taught by the Pharisees.

He was taught all these things, and he thought he was doing the right thing.

And all the choices he made.

But then Jesus came into his life, and boom, all of a sudden he saw things with completely different eyes.

And he made decisions that were completely different that nobody could understand why he made those.

So that's kind of the background for that book.

What does QSQ stand for?

Being a pastor for 20 years and working with pastors in Latin America, I found that there is a connection between the structure a church has, which balances on one side the quality of believers, and on the other side, the quantity of believers you have in your church.

So the structure is the one that holds it together and balances it.

So there are some churches, their structure is based on volume, and they have tons of quantity of people in the church, but they're not quality believers, if I may say it like this, and it goes vice versa.

So in the book, I basically go back to introducing the biblical principles of the original blueprint of the church as it's found in the book of Acts.

So that's basically a book for pastors and churches that are stagnant, that are struggling with certain things, and they could apply these principles to revive the church and think about the structure they're running.

Because a lot of times I've found, for example, if you look at the Catholic Church, for example, they have a humongous structure that's very strict, and then you have other churches that go to the other extreme, they're also Lutheran churches, where there's only one pastor that makes all the decisions.

You have elderly churches, you have denominational churches, so there's so many different church structures out there that produce different things, different outcomes for the believers.

So I was trying to get back to the original blueprint of how the church was built in the beginning with the apostles and the New Testament, the book of Acts.

So message in the bottle, future you is listening to this conversation five years from today, what's a message you'd leave for future you?

I will just say, my future self, keep going, keep at it.

Pastor Andrews, this has been a great pleasure, one I treasure.

Thank you for being on What Is Inspired, and welcome to Convos.