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Articles by Fred Nelson

Fred Nelson is the lead pastor and co-campus pastor for Redeemer Lutheran Church, Park Ridge & Chicago, Illinois. He is a member of the Metropolitan Chicago Synod’s first Intentional Impact group.

Next Level Leadership and Our Move to Multisite

May 22, 2014 by Fred Nelson

Background My wife, Carol, and I are both second-career pastors. When we started out in pastoral ministry in our early 40s, we found ourselves leaning heavily towards a model of Pastor as Leader. Like many others who were entering ministry at the turn of the millennium, we found ourselves looking at first-call opportunities in churches […]

Filed Under: Growing Leaders

20.1 Lent 2015

The Catechumenate

19.4: Advent 2014

Communion and Community

19.3: Ordinary Time 2014

Green coffee beans (top left), Nicaraguan red beans (top right), corn (bottom left) and millet, vital Nicaraguan crops, held in women farmers’ hands

Food and Justice

19.2: Pentecost 2014

Latvian Wheat by Dace Kiršpile

Growing Leaders

19.1: Epiphany 2014

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