\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Pastor Nelson grew up in Red Wing, Minnesota with a population of about 15,000 people and some big cities not too far from him. \u201cI grew up with a faithful family which was always a part of who I was & I sometimes would lead worship from a young age,\u201d Nelson explained when asked about if he\u2019s always wanted to be a chaplain. He then followed up saying that in his high school and college days he went back & forth when telling himself that being a chaplain is the career path he wanted to go down. We asked Nelson what steered his decisions when it came to not wanting to be a chaplain and he responded \u201cA lot of it was just ways that ministry tended to look at the time. For me this was also the time that 9\/11 was happening, so there was a lot going on, so I started to question how I was going to live out having faith and trying to spread it to others. Honestly, I still have some of those questions today, but I think I\u2019ve found the answers for the time being.\u201d Andy is a man who believes that faith is one of the most important things for him to have in his like as he explained to us that he believes its shaped his views on the world and plays a huge role in the person that he\u2019s become today. \u201cSomething where I can see what I\u2019ve added to the world,\u201d is how pastor Nelson answered to question of what career path he would go down if he had not been a pastor. He feels that at times being a pastor doesn\u2019t come with immediate results when it comes to seeing that what you\u2019re doing for people is making a difference but it\u2019s rather like planting some sort of seed and not being able to see result for weeks, months, maybe years. Taking advantage of time to step away from ministry and experiencing more is something Nelson would have liked to have done before becoming a pastor. Being able to take a break and branch would have been more ideal for Nelson as he jumped right in to being a pastor post-college. \u201cDietrich Bonheoffer probably had one of the biggest influences on me as an author coming up. He was a pastor and a pacifist who was a part of a resistance group to the rise of Nazism is America. I really like his theology of caring. There are plenty others I followed as well, like Lois McMaster Bujold.\u201d Pastor Nelson loves what he does but still hopes to branch out and get a new experience with his career field one day.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Pastor Nelson grew up in Red Wing, Minnesota with a population of about 15,000 people and some big cities not too far from him. \u201cI grew up with a faithful family which was always a part of who I was & I sometimes would lead worship from a young age,\u201d Nelson explained when asked about … Continue reading Interview with Pastor Andy Nelson<\/span>