ELCA Fund for Leaders
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The Rev. Paul Hanson
Director, ELCA Fund for Leaders
800/638-3522, ext. 2749
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The Rev. Paul N. Hanson assumed his role as director of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's Fund for Leaders on April 2, 2007.
Hanson was pastor at Resurrection Lutheran Church, Pierre, S.D., from 1989 to 1995, and senior pastor at Ascension from 1995 to 2007. He was a council member of the ELCA South Dakota Synod, Sioux Falls, from 1996 to 2001. From 2004 to 2005, Hanson served as administrative director of "Answer the Call Campaign" -- a major gifts campaign of the ELCA South Dakota Synod. In 2002 Hanson became a certified fund-raising executive, and he is a member of the Association of Lutheran Development Executives.
Pr. Hanson graduated from Augustana College, Sioux Falls, S.D., in 1985, and Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minn., in 1989.
Hanson and his wife, Sally, have three children.