Pastor Ray Lane: Building a successful ministry

Building a successful ministry is very possible, and Pastor Ray knows how to do it! Pastor Ray Lane was born during the Great Depression in spite of a plan to have him aborted. He grew up on a farm in Idaho and served in the Air Force. He attended Boise Junior College (now Boise State University), was a farmer and breeder of registered Holsteins, graduated from Nazarene Bible College in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and was a pastor with his famous wife artist/pastor Norma of churches in Los Alamos, New Mexico, Kuna, Idaho, Auckland First Church of the Nazarene, and New Lynn in Auckland, New Zealand; also Spokane, Washington, and Santa Clara, California. In retirement he has served as an assistant funeral director, volunteered as Colorado Springs police chaplain, and volunteered with San Diego Sheriff's Department. After Norma passed away on her 76th birthday, he married Jean, a bookkeeper for the Pasadena, California, school district. When single again, he met Muriel, who was a bell ringer for the Salvation Army in Miami, Florida. And finally Joyce, a retired visiting nurse that grew up in Nebraska. Jean and Muriel are also deceased. He and Norma had two children, Leah and Jeff, who passed away at age 59. He and Joyce now live in a retirement community in Colorado. In episode 477 of the Fraternity Foodie Podcast, we find out why Pastor Ray's mom almost had an abortion, what his experience was like in the US Air Force, why he decided to move to Colorado and go to Bible college for training, how he knows when he's successful in building a ministry, how he explains all the near-death experiences he's had in life, and why he wrote the book "Conceivable: The unlimited potential of the unborn". Enjoy!