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Pastor Ervin B. Rasmussen
Pastor Erv Rasmussen was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where his parents were involved in the grocery business. He graduated from Bethany Lutheran Grade School, then attended Boys Technical High School, where he received two diplomas - Electrical Trade and High School. In his senior year, he was elected President of the Student Council.
After working for a year as a technician in the experimental laboratory of the McGraw Edison Company, he joined the US Air Force. Pastor Erv served for four years as an Instructor in the Basics of Radio Mechanics at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois.
All through these post high school years, he picked up the nickname "Preacher" or "Sky Pilot" because of his love of sharing the Good News of Jesus with those around him.
Upon discharge from the service, he attended Concordia Seminary. In his senior year he was elected President of his class. He received his Master's Degree from Concordia in 1970. He has served churches as Associate Pastor, Missionary at Large, and Pastor, in Wisconsin, IL, and Arizona. He also served as un-official chaplain to the Illinois Youth Commission.
Pastor Rasmussen is the founder and Executive Director of the Lutheran Evangelism Association - Prayer Family International. In this capacity, he has conducted hundreds of witness workshops in the United States, Canada, and India (where he also helped set up a printed word witness outreach). The Workshops are designed to help those who feel they are too shy or timid to be in an organized witness program, but would like to share their faith in non-structured every day situations.
Pastor Rasmussen has been privileged to be invited to hold witness workshops at all of the "Great Commission Convocations". He was a participant in the Lusanne II Congress on World Evangelization held in Manila, Philippines in 1989. He served as Editor and Publisher of the "Arizona Lutheran", and now serves the national publication, the "Waiting Time Digest" in those capacities.
Pastor Erv makes his home in Scottsdale, Arizona, with his wife Beverly.They have four grown children and four grandchildren.
Read one of his editorials here: Renaming the Product