Mike Housholder: The Wind of the Spirit

Mike Housholder: The Wind of the Spirit

Several years ago, when Mike Housholder was on vacation in Florida with his family, he bumped into someone from his church in West Des Moines, Iowa. The congregant said, “Don’t worry, you don’t have to be Pastor Mike here around us. You’re on vacation.” Housholder laughed and said, “Well, who do you think I’m going to be if I’m not Pastor Mike?”  Even as Lutheran Church of Hope has become one of the largest churches in the U.S., this lack of pre…