I embarked on my Fuller journey in the summer of 2005. At the time I had been teaching high school Bible ...
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I have felt the call to foreign missions since sometime in 2003....
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I had been on staff with Young Life during my entire tenure at Fuller...
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Seminary was not a destination I had in-mind when I moved to the Pacific Northwest in 2005...
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My name is Gus Peterson, and I am a 2012 MDiv graduate of the Fuller Seminary Northwest program...
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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...
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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...
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You won’t find my name in any church staff directory. Ditto for any other parachurch group...
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My passport was stamped in Guatemala, Costa Rica, Mexico, Thailand, Romania...
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While I was still in seminary I became my mother’s caregiver for almost a year...
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In the spring of 1994 it
became clear God was calling me to pastoral ministry at age 44...
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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
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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. |
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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...
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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!”...
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