Virgil Amundson

Often, we look to a huge mega-church in one of the metropolitan areas to find the “formula” for growth and success. But God is not limited to such places. In fact, there are great treasures to be found in other places—remote, obscure, rural places—where the great God of the universe is just as apt to do “great and mighty things.” One of the lies that Satan tells pastors is that they cannot accomplish great things in a small area, but that they must move on to some large metropolitan area to fulfill their ministry. Pastor Virgil Amundson’s book, Called to be Faithful, thoroughly debunks that myth. 
Shell Lake Full Gospel Church began in 1969 as a Pentecostal congregation of about a dozen people in a town with a population of under 1,000. Today it is touching the world with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. This small-town church has become a powerful lighthouse to northwest Wisconsin and the world and now supports over 60 missionaries and has given as much as a half a million dollars to missions in one year.
Called to be Faithful is an absorbing story of the highs and the lows of growing a great church in a small community. Pastor Amundson will be the first to tell you that what has been accomplished is only because of the grace of God, but there are valuable lessons to be learned here about cooperating with God’s grace and being flexible enough to flow with what God is doing in the various seasons of life and ministry.
Enjoy this collection of a lifetime of memories from a man who has personally experienced the grace of God in the building of a great local church for God.