By Leona Bergstrom I’ve spent nearly three decades proclaiming my belief that there is something absolutely wonderful about aging. Deep down in my soul I’m convinced God’s creative work in our lives comes to its most magnificent climax somewhere near the end of the journey. I was reminded of that this week as I meandered [...]
Book Review Leona Bergstrom [amazon_enhanced asin="1598566695" container="div" container_class="alignleft" price="Hide" background_color="FFFFFF" link_color="000000" text_color="0000FF" /] Building Below the Waterline: Shoring Up the Foundations of Leadership. By Gordon MacDonald. “God, do you have a fresh call for a 60-something guy?” This question, posed by author Gordon MacDonald on the very last page of his recent book, Building Below the Waterline: [...]
Culture Change… By Leona Bergstrom Scribbled words on newsprint reflect the concerns adult ministries leaders carry in their hearts as they attended the recent Re-Ignite Network Gathering. It wasn’t hard to identify the top issue, as person after person cast his vote by marking an “X” by the questions: How can we change the church [...]
Provided by CN Building Adult Ministries Resource Center The Bergstroms live in Seattle where Richard is Executive Pastor at Northshore Baptist Church in Bothell WA. Leona is Director of Lifetime Ministries, a division of ChurchHealth. She and Richard are Co-Directors of 2nd ½ for Him Ministries/Converge Worldwide (Baptist General Conference). They are co-authors of Amazing [...]
How to Leave Life’s Most Important Gift Leona D. Bergstrom, Provided by CN Building Adult Ministries Resource Center There is much talk these days about what it means to leave a legacy. Perhaps it’s because we Boomers are actually beginning to understand our own mortality. In this month alone we personally have buried one friend and [...]