Ollie was born in Murray, Utah and then moved with his mother and 4 other siblings to Pontiac, Illinois when he was one year old. He and two of his brothers moved back to Utah when he was 12. He is the youngest of 7 and an identical twin.

Ollie was gripped by the grace of Christ transforming his life when he was in the U.S. Army serving at Ft. Carson, Colorado in 1974. After finishing active duty in Feb. 1976, his twin brother and he went to Bible college that next fall. He received a B.S. degree in Missions at Liberty University in 1982. After volunteering and serving at churches in Utah he returned to school, getting his Master of Divinity degree from Western Seminary in Portland, Oregon. Ollie returned to Utah to serve as an assistant pastor at Sonrise Baptist church for two years in 1996-1998. He did a "Lutheran year" of additional training around 2008-2009, and was ordained at Good Shepherd Lutheran church, Sandy Utah in 2010. Shortly after, he took clinical chaplain training and worked in healthcare as a chaplain for 19 years until assuming the call to the ministry of Word and Sacrament at Trinity Lutheran, Columbus, Nebraska in June of 2019. Ollie has been married to Karen, his wife for 39 years this coming May. Karen and Ollie have two daughters that are the delight of their lives; Lorna, and her husband Ben, 24 years old in Tempe, Arizona and Hannah, 21 in Salt Lake City, Utah.

ofullmer@trinityalive.org