The Importance of Ministry in Evangelicalism

How quickly after his conversion did he want to go into ministry? I think what happened is that there was never a time when he wasn't quote unquote doing ministry. He published his first book in, was it 2006? A reason for God. 2008. He would have been in his 50s at the time. So he has this long timeline. But like when he becomes a convert in 1970, he's just immediately doing ministry. His Italian Catholic mother who baptized him, Catholic and Lutheran just to be sure.