CENTRAL — Early in life, Rev. Wayne Otto had no idea he would someday become a pastor.

He grew up in an unchurched family and as a teenager was headed away from God until a local church congregation reached out to him; there he became a Christian, and his life was transformed.

Southern Wesleyan University presented Otto with the Virgil A. Mitchell Award for Excellence in Pastoral Ministry during a chapel

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