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- Created: June 17 2016 June 17 2016
Nikolai Gibbons, son of the Saint John’s Lutheran Church congregation in Fort Collins, was ordained into the Office of Holy Ministry there on Sunday, June 12. Nikolai was baptized and confirmed at Saint John’s. He is a graduate of Concordia St. Paul and earned his M.Div. at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri. He has been called to serve as Associate Pastor at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Macomb, Michigan, and will be installed there later this summer.
The congregation, friends and family gathered for the worship service filled with joyful proclamation and wonderful music (organ, violin and brass). The service was officiated by Saint John’s Senior Pastor, Rev. Shawn Nettleton. Rev. Greg Griffith, Senior Pastor at Immanuel Lutheran, Macomb, Michigan, delivered the sermon. Second Vice President of the Rocky Mountain District LCMS (and pastor of Zion Lutheran, Holyoke), Rev. Gary Rahe ordained Nikolai. A reception followed the service.
The congregation gave Nikolai a red stole as an ordination gift. You saw a picture of the stole itself in last month’s newsletter, but before the ordination service Anita Walters added the following embroidered inscription:
We ask for God’s abundant blessings on Nikolai as he begins ministry of service to the Church. We wish he and wife, Toni, the best in Michigan!