(The following article was submitted to The Pioneer)
The Debs-Puposky
Parish will officially induct Pastor Michael Naylor as its pastor on Sunday,
June 22nd, 2014. Our
Redeemer’s Lutheran in Puposky will hold a service at 9am and Trinity Lutheran in Debs
will hold its service at 10:30am. Pastor
Stephen Peterson, Assistant to the Bishop of the Northwest Minnesota Synod of
the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA), will speak during both
services. The community is invited to attend
these services to formally welcome Pastor Naylor to the Parish.
Pastor Naylor accepted the call to minister in
the Debs-Puposky Parish in December 2013 and he began leading services in
January 2014. He succeeds Pastor Jay
Borchert, of Debs, who retired in December.
Pastor Naylor is from Bemidji and he and his wife, Mary, raised their
family here. He started lay pulpit
supply in 1986. The first parish he
served was the Pinewood-Puposky-Debs Parish.
Since then he has provided pulpit supply for churches in Kelliher,
Waskish, Shevlin, Solway, Bemidji, Mizpa, Grand Rapids, Gully and Trail. Prior to accepting the call at Debs-Puposky,
Pastor Naylor was leading up to 50 Sunday services throughout northern
Minnesota each year.
Pastor Naylor has a long history of musical performance
and ministry. In 2012 he became one of
the original inductees to the North Dakota Rock Country Hall of Fame. He also has served on three Synod Music Teams
in the LCA as well as the ELCA Constituting Convention. During his first six months of service,
Pastor Naylor has enthusiastically dedicated many hours each week to one of the
Deb-Puposky Parish’s top priorities: visiting Parish members in local nursing
homes that can no longer attend regular worship services in their home
churches.
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