Matthew Anderson is our Senior Leader and one of the founders of Antioch Central Phoenix.  He and his wife Amanda have been married for 28 years and have done ministry together for just as long.  They are the founders of Waypoint Church located in Omaha, NE, served as the Lead Pastor at that church for 17 years, and currently serve as Overseers for that church.  Matthew and his family moved to Phoenix, following the call of God on their lives, in August of 2023 to help start and lead Antioch Central Phoenix, and to establish a pipeline of church planters that will start churches throughout the valley of Phoenix, other cities in our nation, and other nations of our world.  They long to see Jesus known wherever He is not known and to see the church become all she is destined to become in Christ!  They believe that the church is supposed to be the greatest agent of change our world has ever seen and that Jesus’s plan A for our world to know Him is the church.  Matthew and Amanda have given their lives to know and love Jesus and to know and love people.  They have also given their lives to see the church know and love Jesus and to know and love people.