Pastor Nathan Tuff is Lead Pastor at Olivet Lutheran Church in Sylvania, Ohio. He spent his childhood on the mission field with his parents in Papua New Guinea. He graduated from Luther College in 1983, majoring in Spanish and Art and worked as a commercial artist in Clinton, Iowa. He married Kim Nielsen in 1987. He received his M.Div. from Luther Northwestern Seminary in St. Paul in 1988. He has served communities of faith in Murdock, Minnesota; Conroy and Norway, Iowa; Green Bay, Wisconsin; Napoleon, Ohio, and Sylvania, Ohio. He taught at Doty Elementary School in Green Bay, Wisconsin.