Pastor Dave Brogren and his wife Lynn form a great
ministry and administrative team. Their diverse gifts are a blessing to our church.
The Brogren's have been serving here since January
of 2002, prior to that, they served a congregation in a small town in western Kansas, where they led that new congregation
for 4-1/2 years, and also in South Carolina, where Dave was an associate pastor for nearly three years. Pastor Dave grew up in Rockford, Illinois. He graduated from Rockford East High School in 1975, has his
Associates Degree from Rock Valley College in Rockford (1977), his Bachelors in Music Education from Northern Illinois University
in Dekalb, IL (1980), and then, returning to school, his Masters of Divinity from Regent University in Virginia Beach, VA
(1993).
Lynn serves as Dave's Administrative Assistant and
as the leader of our worship team, the Christ Centered Crew. She graduated from Rockford Guilford High School and Rock
Valley College, and has a multi-faceted background that has challenged her with all kinds of experiences from teaching music
to accounting and bookkeeping to traveling the world as the Director of Operations for a multi-million-dollar international
relief and development corporation.
Dave and Lynn were married in 1978, and have three
grown daughters, Sarah, Emily, and Lauren, and one grandson, Cyrus.