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St. John’s Lutheran Church Welcomes Pastor Greg Kjos Rosanne Fortier News Correspondent
Pastor Greg Kjos is the new minister at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Vegreville. Pastor Greg’s family heritage is from Ukraine and Norway. He grew up in Camrose where he still lives with his wife, Chris. “We are parents of five adult children; three boys and two girls. Two of them are married and three of them are single. We also have four grandchildren; two grandsons and two granddaughters,” Chris said. When asked how he received the calling into ministry, Pastor Greg replied, “When I was growing up, I was active with sports and certain things happened that made me examine the purpose of
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The joy of being a pastor is always life. For example there was a certain walking with Jesus as Lord and Saviour. hockey team I wanted to play on at a There is no greater or better job than certain level that I never achieved. This being a pastor. You get time to spend disappointment made me question why I knowing what God, Father, Son, and was here. Holy Spirit is. This vocation has intrinsic Then while attending the Canadian human value; I know why I am here. I am Lutheran Bible Institute, I had a sense of not perfect but God is gracious and merdiscernment, an awakening in my mind ciful. that a good way of life and job would be I can encourage people, and see that to be a pastor. My grandfather on my transformation, and it is because of Jesus mother’s side was a Lutheran’s pastor of that this happens; it is not because of the Ukrainian/German background so I church. It is because of a relationship with talked to him and was encouraged to Jesus as Lord and Saviour. All Christian fulfill this vocation and then I was churches are supposed to help people in encouraged by others which led me to their own walk with Jesus. pursue the academic training to be a Pastor Greg Kjos. (Rosanne Fortier/Photo) The challenges are to communicate in pastor. such a way in word and in deed to where Now, I have been a pastor for 37 years. For this church, I am what they call a vacancy pastor which people sense that Jesus is real in their life. I would hope that anyone would come into Christian ministry means I will assist the congregation while they need me to. I hope to stay at this church for three years until they discern because Jesus has called them into this specific work to help people grow in their faith in Jesus,” Pastor Greg added. wisely who will be that full time pastor that they want.
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