Schools & youth
Assemblies, grade presentations, workshops, and youth conferences.
Speaking across Canada & the United States · Based in Oshawa, Ontario
Real stories, honest conversations, and the belief that your story isn’t over.
Speaker · Author · Pastor · Community Leader · Wedding Officiant · Host
Speaking · Thousands reached · Canada + USA
Real stories. Conversations that matter.
Andrew Alleyne has spent years speaking to thousands of people across Canada and the United States — from classrooms and conference stages to detention centres, jails, prisons, churches, and community environments.
Before Andrew ever stood in front of students, he was one of the students people had already given up on.
Today he uses lived experience, honest storytelling, humour, and challenging conversations to engage people around identity, relationships, race, belonging, choices, purpose, violence, resilience, leadership, and second chances.
Conferences & organizations
Keynotes, leadership days, nonprofits, staff development, and organizational events.
Correctional & community
Detention centres, jails, prisons, and community initiatives.
Churches & faith events
Sunday gatherings, youth ministries, conferences, men's events, and retreats.
Weddings · Officiating since 2012
Your ceremony should be as meaningful as your marriage.
Andrew is an ordained minister who has officiated weddings since 2012 — warm, personal ceremonies written around your story, not a template. Christian ceremonies are available, and so are meaningful ceremonies for couples who don’t want something heavily religious.
About · My story
I didn’t learn this from a book. I learned it the hard way.
I grew up in Scarborough being told what I would never be. Teachers said I wouldn’t graduate. There were suspensions, expulsion, police cars, nights with nowhere to sleep, and a street culture that felt more like belonging than anything else on offer.
I know what it is to be labelled, written off, misunderstood, and expected to fail. I also know that choices carry weight, that consequences are real, and that none of that makes a person disposable.
Faith found me. Fatherhood shaped me. Divorce broke something and rebuilding taught me the rest. The kid some people stopped expecting anything from became a speaker, author, pastor, husband, father, and community leader who has spoken to thousands.
Where you are standing today does not have to determine where your story ends.
Andrew Alleyne — Oshawa, Ontario.
Pre-marital counselling · SYMBIS certified
The wedding is one day. The marriage is the goal.
As a certified SYMBIS facilitator, Andrew walks engaged couples through practical, honest preparation — communication, conflict, expectations, finances, family backgrounds, intimacy, roles, and values. Preparing for a marriage, not only for a wedding. Available whether or not he’s officiating.
The book
I Hate Church
For those who met religion before they met Jesus.
The title isn’t a verdict on the church — it’s a conversation about the barriers church culture can put between people and God. An honest book for anyone who loves Jesus and cannot stomach what has sometimes been done in His name.
The podcast
Coming soonThe Mirror
A mirror does not create what is there. It reveals it.
Conversations with Andrew Alleyne about faith, leadership, relationships, culture, healing, identity, hard questions, and the stories and beliefs that quietly shape who we become.
Featured episode — first conversations releasing soon.
Catalyst Church · Oshawa
There is still room for you here.
Catalyst is the church Andrew planted in Oshawa for people who are hungry for Jesus and worn out by performance. Honest worship, real prayer, teaching that doesn’t dodge the hard parts, and people before programs.
Family & legacy
Everything worth building begins at home.
Before the stage, the microphone, or the next project come the people closest to me. My prayer is that every message I preach, every room I walk into, and every wedding I officiate reflects what I hope my family experiences first: authenticity, faith, grace, and the love of Jesus.
Contact
Let’s talk.
However you found your way here — an assembly, a conference, a wedding, counselling, an interview, or a question about church — it all comes to me personally.
Speaking inquiry
Schools, youth events, conferences, correctional programs, and churches.
Wedding inquiry
Check availability for your date and tell me about your ceremony.
General contact
Media, podcast, counselling, church questions, or a simple hello.