Andrea ‘Dree’ Hogue is the 111Project Director of Church Engagement and Eastern Oklahoma Director. Her roles include supporting the Eastern team and engaging with churches of all denominations across the state. Dree joined the team in January of 2021 but has advocated for children for years.
Before starting at 111Project, Dree worked as a national speaker for Pure Freedom where she spoke for the ministry now known as True Girl; planted a church in Pennsylvania; worked as a Childrens Pastor at Believers Church; helped start a home education academic program called Classical Conversation where she taught English; was the Grants Facilitator and Assistant to the Dean of the College of Arts, College of Science and Engineering at Oral Roberts University; and worked as the Advancement Director at Metro Christian.
Dree received her Batchlors degree in Organizational Communications from Northeastern State University in Tahlequah. She has been married to her husband, Chris, for over 24 years and they have three kids: Ashton, Noelle and James. They attend Believers Church.
Dree’s favorite verse is Ephesians 3:14-16:
“14 For this reason I kneel before the Father, 15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name. 16 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit.”
As a child Dree saw the brokenness of addiction, abuse, and divorce play out in her family so when she encountered the Truth of Jesus, the rescue he offered was very real to her.
“The reality of God’s love for me, superseded anything that I felt like I came from, or anything I deserved – almost like I didn’t feel like I belonged at the table,” she said. “God has just over and over again, showed me his faithfulness showed me as love showed me his caring kindness.”
As a survivor of many things, God has given Dree inner strength, which she declares to herself and others daily.
“I want my life to be lived out in a way that offers that deep, wide, long love, which offers other people resources like that of inner strength,” she said.
Dree had never opened a Bible until she attended Asbury United Methodist Church for the first time at 12-years-old. What she was learning in church was different than anything she had ever been offered.
“There was a lot stacked against me in believing,” she said.
While on a retreat, Dree invited the Lord into her life and her life began to transform. She was intentionally discipled and slowly she began to crave what the church had to offer: stability, peace, love and safety. Her life is a picture of redemption as a generational cycle of abuse was broken.
“It’s a beautiful gift to wake up and see all the redemption around me and to see that my legacy looks very different than what it should look like because of Jesus,” she said.
While serving in Childrens Ministry, Dree has worked with children from trauma, children struggling with mental illness and children from foster care with neurodevelopmental disorders like ADHD or autism. Through her personal and professional experience, she knows the importance of supporting families and children in crisis.
“There’s plenty for us to do in this space,” she said. “So, even if you’re not called to foster care, you can do something. There are ample opportunities – we don’t have more than enough in this space. And until we have more than enough, we all need to be willing to do something.”
Dree can be reached at dree@111project.org.