about pastor Nathan

pastor nathan's bio

Pastor Nathan Hamre was born on September 10, 1974 in Des Moines, Iowa. Before he was 1 year old, his family moved to Southern California, settling in Bellflower before he reached the age of 5.
 
Prior to becoming a Christian, Nathan toured locally as drummer with heavy metal and punk rock bands. He also started numerous tech business in the 90's providing tech support to both private and commercial clients and designing websites in the early days of the world wide web. In 1995, at the age of 21, Nathan gave his life to Christ.
 
He eventually started attending church at Hosanna Christian Fellowship and learning from  the teaching of Pastor Garry Ansdell. After attending bible studies for a year, he found himself asking God if "sitting here in a pew once or twice a week was all there was to the Christianity thing." Shortly thereafter, he received a vision from the Lord wherein God spoke to him and said "I've called you to the ministry."
 
Not knowing exactly what that meant, he bought a study bible and a concordance (because he had heard that word once) and began studying on his own to supplement what he learned from Pastor Garry. An opportunity presented itself to become a volunteer counselor in the Jr. High ministry and join the worship team as the drummer. That was the beginning of his ministry career.
 
After serving as a volunteer for two years, Nathan was offered the staff position of Jr. High leader and licensed as a Chaplain. Over the course of the next 8 years Nathan served in all aspects of youth and student ministry including high school and young adults as well as leading outreach ministries where he preached the gospel to hundreds of people and saw many come to Christ.
 
In 2009 Nathan was ordained as a Pastor and continued his service to the body as Young Adults leader and occasional guest speaker on Sunday and Wednesday services. He also continued applying his tech gifts as Technical Director, Network Admin, Web developer, and Graphic Designer. He became Assistant Pastor in May 2019.
 
Nathan has taught at Calvary Chapel Bible College, in South Sudan at the Chaplain Training Center for the South Sudanese People's Liberation Army, and in the Philippines. 
 
On January 2nd, 2022, he assumed the role of Senior Pastor at Hosanna Christian Fellowship upon the retirement of Pastor Garry Ansdell.