Rev. Heather Hanson
Rev. Heather Hansen is an experienced congregational pastor, youth minister, campus pastor, and mom, serving in a variety of roles related to these categories since December of 1992. She received a B.S. from Texas A&M in 1995 in Biomedical Science, and a teaching certificate for secondary science at the same time. She then went on to study at Luther Seminary, receiving a MA in Children Youth and Family Ministry in 2004 and a MDiv in 2015. And finally, Pastor Heather was ordained October 17, 2015 as a Minister of Word and Sacrament in the ELCA.
Straight out of college, Pastor Heather began a lifetime vocation of youth ministry in a number of settings on the local church, synod, and national levels. She has also taught at Texas Lutheran University in the Theology department with a focus on the youth ministry concentration that the school awards to some Theology majors. Currently, Heather serves as the called campus pastor for Lutheran Campus Ministry – San Antonio, and as contract associate pastor for Abiding Presence Lutheran Church, San Antonio.
Heather is a lover of the outdoors, animals, and her very dear family; spouse Mark and two children Hannah and Alex. In her “spare time” she is also working on the development of a non-profit called Red Hawk Ranch, which, when in full operation, will serve as an organization deeply rooted in her theology of creation/nature to help youth, adults, families and communities reconnect with their relationship to the outdoors in a way to preserve health and wholeness for people and the environment.
