Shortly after I became a Christian at the age of 13, I began to sense some type of call to ministry. It was weird because no one in my family served as a pastor or evangelist or even a missionary to a foreign country. I wasn't sure if my -calling- was simply a response to the truth of the Gospel and wanting to present it to others or if it was something that God was nudging me toward.--Over the decades since that time, I've served as a youth minister, an associate pastor and even as a youth director-janitor in a church. It was interesting that in all those service opportunities, the only direction I received from any pastor I served under was to pursue my masters of divinity degree because if I was really called into the pastorate, I would need that. It made sense. I already had a bachelors in Bible degree.