Megadeth bassist David Ellefson will soon be on the road, and in church. The band is putting the final touches on the Gigantour, which will feature Motorhead, Volbeat and Lacuna Coil. And Ellefson is putting the final touches on his ordination to the Lutheran church.

Ellefson recently spoke with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch about his desire to enter the ministry. According to gibson.com, "long-term friends of Ellefson are not surprised by the news, given that Ellefson took his faith very seriously while attending his local Lutheran church as he was growing up in Minnesota. “I came from a good family, not a broken home,” Ellefson told the Post-Dispatch. “That became a model for me, and I saw church at center of it.”

Ellefson has even written songs for the Lutheran church he currently attends, using lyrics from the Old Testament. “For a Christmas service, I remixed some classics, not quite in a Megadeth fashion, but in a pretty heavy rock fashion,” he said.

Long aware of Ellefson’s obvious devotion, his current pastor, Jon Bjorgaard, encouraged Ellefson to enroll in the ministry program. “Most people want to become a rock star,” Bjorgaard said. “David’s a rock star who wants to become a pastor.”

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