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Call Stories: Pastor Howard Rasmussen

I first became aware of my call to ordained ministry while in high school. I went so far as to visit with my pastor and a representative of the seminary in Fremont. But it was as if God was telling me what my future was going to be, and that I should prepare for it, but there were other things I needed to experience first.

After one year of college following high school (’66-67), I joined the work force, married, started a family, took on a mortgage and generally got on with life. I remained active in all aspects of my home congregation and I always knew that I would return to school. How I knew that I don’t know… I just knew it.

In 1984, I went back to school. I thought I was too old with too many responsibilities to even consider seminary. But after one semester as a business major, God convinced me to get onto the seminary track. I did and I haven’t looked back. Whenever a major roadblock stood in my way, a way over it always appeared. This is what I was intended to be and to do. No fireworks. No books falling off the shelf pointing my way. Nothing spectacular.

Pastor Howard Rasmussen

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