Meet the Director of Grace Life Ministries at Parkdale Grace Fellowship.

The leadership of Parkdale Grace Fellowship sensed the leading of the Lord to establish a full time Grace Life ministry at Parkdale and stepped out in faith to hire me (Dallas Bergen) as the Director of Grace Life Ministries on June 1, 2009. This brought to fruition God’s call upon my life to the full time ministry of teaching, discipling and administrating a Grace Life Ministry in the city of Calgary.

I grew up in Rosthern, Saskatchewan and through the influence of a Christian home I met the Lord at the age of nine. I moved to Calgary at seventeen to study art at the University of Calgary. Many of the ensuing years were spent living in rebellion against God but in my late thirties He was faithful to draw me back into a relationship with Him.

I was the rebellious child of God who had returned home to the embrace of his heavenly Father but with little understanding of what it meant to live the Christian life. In my ignorance, I proceeded to do my best to live the Christian life. Disaster struck, I was a failure, at home, in my marriage, my work, with my children and especially in my spiritual life. Relief from the pain of failing came in the form of a Grace Life Conference presented by Don Higgins of Crossways to Life, who taught the truth of Galatians 2:20

"I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me." (niv)

Being set free from the bondage to my “self life” is an exhilarating experience of depending upon Christ to live His life through me.

The growing impact of the Biblical truth of the exchange life message has transformed my life and the lives of many others in my sphere of influence. This began a lay ministry of discipleship as God began to bring His hurting, worn out, and frustrated children. Early in this millennium the call of God came to prepare and study for the future opportunity of entering into a full time Grace Life ministry. God has promised to prepare the way as we trust in Him, He teaches us to wait patiently while He unfolds our journey before us. After working for more that forty years in the construction industry God opened the door to enter into this Grace Life Ministry giving me the opportunity to daily share my passion for the message of the Exchanged Life.

Through a divinely arranged encounter, God led me to meet an amazing Godly woman. Barb and I were
married in 1971 and we have two wonderful children, a great son-in-law and three terrific grandsons. It is because of Barb’s support and encouragement that we have entered into ministry and we both continue to be astounded at what God is doing through us and in us as we experience growing in His Grace.