HINCKLEY — When Chris Navurskis was growing up in Immanuel Lutheran Church in rural Hinckley, some parishioners told him they thought he should consider becoming a minister. Even though he taught Sunday school and vacation Bible school, he didn’t give it much thought.

Even though he grew up in Hinckley, he spent a lot of time on his grandfather’s farm, doing “all the traditional stuff that farm kids do” and racing motorcycles.

“The whole white robe thing, compared to that, I thought ‘no, that’s not for me.’”  he said. “But then you grow into the gifts God gives you.”