Terry Brennan

Terry Brennan is retired. And he likes being retired. He was in the workforce for nearly sixty years, from a 12-year-old selling programs for football games at Franklin Field in Philadelphia to being a senior executive for two New York City nonprofits that serve homeless people. When Terry turned seventy-years-old, he decided that he had worked enough. And yet, there was this ‘writing’ thing that still dominated his life. From 2008 to 2020, Kregel Publications published six of Terry’s action-adventure novels. But there was that other book. The one that wouldn’t let him go. Terry’s true immersion into life-changing ministry occurred during the eleven years he worked for Christian Herald Association—including the seven years he and his family lived in the Bowery Mission on the lower East Side of NYC. Terry was deeply engaged in the work of the Bowery Mission—the third-oldest rescue mission in the United States. Not only working side-by-side with the staff in crafting and implementing an effective recovery program, but also standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the homeless men in the Bowery’s residential programs, mentoring them to a future of hope and renewed lives. Combining his personal experience living at The Bowery Mission in NYC, with the words God spoke to him in the early mornings, and the lessons he and his wife, Andrea, learned in their four decades of married life, Brennan put together the manuscript for this nonfiction book, Rescuing Hidden Hearts. From start to finish, Rescuing Hidden Hearts took Brennan eight years to complete.