Galin Nelson was born and raised in Denver, CO. While he was earning a degree in engineering, he became an atheist. After a series of events, at the age of 32, he began questioning what he wanted to do with the rest of his life. It was during this point he believed God answered his grandmother’s prayers and posed a question to his heart, “If you find out if there’s a God or not, it will help you answer your question.” This eventually led to Galin looking up at a moonlit sky and sincerely asking God, “If you are real, please make Yourself known to me.”  

God answered that prayer and led Galin to First Baptist Church of Englewood, CO where he heard the Word of God and  was saved at the age of 32. Shortly after, God called him to preach and he married Andrea, the love of his life, in 2010. Galin completed his Pastoral and Theological training under Pastor Clifton Mizer of First Baptist Church of Englewood and via extension studies at Heartland Baptist Bible College. God has blessed Galin and Andrea with two daughters: Reese and Emma.

Pastor Nelson’s desire for Berean Baptist Church is that they would fulfill the Lord’s Great Commission: to see people saved, discipled and to send people out to further spread the Gospel. His prayer for those at Berean Baptist Church is that they would be changed through their relationship with Jesus Christ, and that they would be  “strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man;...and that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God.” (Ephesians 3:16-19)