Photo: Tiny Heartbeat Ministries

This university honors men who take the gospel where the need is — and few stand in a needier place than Andrew Kerin and the missionaries of Tiny Heartbeat Ministries. From Pullman, Washington, they carry the case for life and the gospel of Jesus Christ to the three fields this ministry has staked out: the Churches, the Clinics, and the Culture.

Andrew’s life turned in his junior year of college, when he saw pictures of the broken bodies of aborted babies. In his own words, he did not feel merely called to the fight — he felt “summoned.” He finished his degree in Criminal Justice at Washington State University, interned with Created Equal in Ohio and with Open Air Campaigners to learn the work, came home, and in 2020 founded Tiny Heartbeat Ministries. He has since received FBI training in negotiation, and he puts it to work in the highest-stakes conversations there are: pleading with mothers and fathers at the clinic door to choose life for their child. He leads the ministry as its president — and he does it as a husband, and the father of three young children.

Tiny Heartbeat calls itself the educational arm of the pro-life movement in the Pacific Northwest. Outside abortion clinics, its missionaries stand as what the ministry itself calls “the last stand for life” — sidewalk counselors pleading with moms and dads, and pointing them to local crisis pregnancy centers and practical help. On college campuses, in downtown squares, and outside high schools, they show the public what abortion actually does to a child — a method they draw from William Wilberforce, who used the images of slavery to wake a nation’s conscience — and they preach the gospel throughout every outreach, holding that no one is healed and forgiven of the sin of abortion without the good news of Jesus Christ. In the churches, they train other Christians to give the same answer; and every year they train interns to multiply the work. Their teams have carried it from the campuses of Washington and Oregon to the streets of New York City.

We set this tribute here, in the Street Preachers Corner, because that is what this work is: the Word of God opened in the open air, at the very gates of death. The texts this ministry stands on are the texts of this Corner:

“If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain; If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?” — Proverbs 24:11–12 (KJV)

“Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction. Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.” — Proverbs 31:8–9 (KJV)

Tiny Heartbeat Ministries

Out of Pullman, Washington, a small band of missionaries is doing some of the most direct gospel work in America — and doing it at the very gates of death. Tiny Heartbeat Ministries is a Christian, anti-abortion nonprofit, founded in 2020, with Andrew Kerin as its founder and president. In the ministry’s own words, it exists “to provide the educational arm of the pro-life movement in the Pacific Northwest,” and it aims that work at three fields: Churches, Clinics, and Culture.

In the churches, Tiny Heartbeat brings pro-life apologetics and evangelism training, equipping ordinary believers to engage those outside the church with the gospel and a clear, compelling, compassionate case for the sanctity of human life. In the culture, its missionaries take that case to college campuses, downtown public squares, and outside high schools — to Oregon State University and Central Washington University, and as far as the streets of New York City, where the team stood with Created Equal in 2024. Their method is plain speaking and plain sight: they show the public photographs of abortion’s victims — the broken bodies of aborted children — the way William Wilberforce once used the images of slavery to wake a nation’s conscience, and then they pursue respectful conversation with anyone who will stop and talk.

At the clinics, they are what the ministry itself calls “the last stand for life.” Sidewalk counselors spend hours outside abortion clinics pleading with moms and dads not to kill their baby but to choose life, and pointing those parents to local crisis pregnancy centers and practical help — under the charge of Proverbs 24:11, to rescue those being led away to death. Andrew brings an unusual equipping to those conversations — training received from the FBI in negotiation principles — but the ministry is plain about where the true healing lies: the gospel is preached throughout every outreach, for forgiveness and healing come only through Jesus Christ.

And the work multiplies: the ministry trains its volunteers, and every year takes on interns and trains them in the work — the same road Andrew himself walked, interning with Created Equal and with Open Air Campaigners before coming home to Pullman to found the ministry. This November, Tiny Heartbeat gathers its friends at its annual gala — November 7 in Moscow, Idaho, and November 14 in Kent, Washington — with Andrew speaking at both. “Big impact starts with a tiny heartbeat,” runs their tagline, and it is the whole theology of the place in a single line: no child is too small to be worth a Christian’s voice, and no sidewalk is too humble to be a pulpit. Open thy mouth for the dumb (Proverbs 31:8) — that is what Tiny Heartbeat Ministries does, week in and week out.

Visit Tiny Heartbeat Ministries, watch the work, and pray for the men and women standing on those sidewalks:

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“Big impact starts with a tiny heartbeat” — so says this ministry, and so say we. Stand faithful, brother. The Corner is glad to count you in the company.