NEW ULM – Last month, Our Savior’s Lutheran Church welcomed new Associate Pastor Amy Karlson.

Karlson officially joined Our Savior’s on Aug. 11, but her first Sunday sermon was on Aug. 24.

Karlson is new to Our Savior’s Lutheran, but she has worked as a Lutheran pastor for over a decade, serving as the pastor for First Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hector, MN, for 11 years. Karlson’s husband Erik Karlson is also a pastor who works as a pastor at Christ Lutheran Church in Glencoe where the two live with their eight-year-old twins Emma and Andrew.

Karlson is originally from Underwood, MN and was raised in the local ELCA church, but it was in college that she decided to become a pastor.

Karlson attended Concordia College in Morehead, taking part in several church organizations, including

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