From the Pastor’s heart:

It was in March 1999 that the Lord first opened my eyes to the liberating truth of Christ as my life. It was during a Grace Life Conference led by Don Higgins in Calgary. My personal life was crumbling and I was burning out in my pastoral ministry under the burden of trying to build the church for the Lord.

This crushing burden was removed from my shoulders during that conference when God revealed to me through the scriptures that He had known all along that I could never live the Christian life let alone fulfill the demands of pastoral ministry. Only Jesus could do it and He was waiting for me to quit trying to do it for Him and instead trust Christ to live through me the life I could never live. Since that first Grace Life Conference God has been transforming my life and ministry through the truths that were taught.

Since then our church, Parkdale Grace Fellowship, has regularly hosted Grace Life conferences, workshops and advanced training seminars which are all designed to strengthen a believer’s walk in the power of God’s grace. This grace ministry has been greatly used of God to impact the lives of many in our congregation and beyond.

We have noticed that a vital key for people to continue to grow in the grace of God is to have ongoing exposure to the message of God's grace as the key to victorious and fruitful living. The Lord impressed upon our hearts as a church the need to facilitate the development of this important ministry in Calgary. So we began asking the Lord how He would use us.

At that time the Lord had also been impressing upon the heart of Dallas Bergen a strong sense of calling to give himself more fully to this grace life ministry. God was at work bringing together what is now known as Grace Life Ministries. Dallas Bergen is now employed full time as the director of Grace Life Ministries which is based out of our church. We praise the Lord for what He is doing among us and look forward with anticipation to see how the Lord will continue unto completion the good work He has begun.

Pastor Ron Stone,
Parkdale Grace Fellowship