I embarked on my Fuller journey in the summer of 2005. At the time I had been teaching high school Bible ...

I have felt the call to foreign missions since sometime in 2003....

I had been on staff with Young Life during my entire tenure at Fuller...

Seminary was not a destination I had in-mind when I moved to the Pacific Northwest in 2005...

My name is Gus Peterson, and I am a 2012 MDiv graduate of the Fuller Seminary Northwest program...

My nickname is Rev. Ski Bum. Once a month during the winter I preach in my ski boots at the 9,000-foot summit of the gondola at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort...

In July this year I was ordained. I am happy to have been invited by many ministries to speak, and by various pastors to deliver sermons and Holy Communion...

You won’t find my name in any church staff directory. Ditto for any other parachurch group...

My passport was stamped in Guatemala, Costa Rica, Mexico, Thailand, Romania...

While I was still in seminary I became my mother’s caregiver for almost a year...

In the spring of 1994 it became clear God was calling me to pastoral ministry at age 44...

Less than ten years ago I became a Christian and gave my life to Christ, and He has done amazing things with this housewife and mother of two from Iran...

What I found at Fuller was a group of friends who were asking the same questions I was. Seminary was more about the journey than the destination.
 

My story is more about God than it is about me.  It was God who led me on this journey called seminary - a path that I never would have imagined going down... 

After graduation I realized that there weren’t enough days in the week to accept every opportunity that God gave me for ministry, so I did the only logical thing on my heart.  I quit my “day job!”...