Pastor John Bjorge was born and raised in a pastor’s family in Minnesota. He is a graduate of St. Olaf College and Luther Seminary, was ordained in 1990, and holds his doctorate in biblical homiletics. He has a passion for proclaiming God’s transformative message of grace and teaching in ways that “delight, inspire, and are relevant.”
He has taught preaching at Luther Seminary and has been very involved in various ministries and boards. He has served congregations in Portland, Montana, and Minnesota before coming to FLRB in 2007.
He loves to ski, travel, and be together with his family. He is married to Jill Ballo and has three adult children: Jack, Kirsten, and Peter.
Pastor John came to FLRB after coming from MN to interview and, in his words, “realizing [he’d] just met the most wonderfully Spirit-filled, Christ-centered, passionate group of people he’d known, [he] felt called by God to lead the ministry team at FLRB.” He thought if the rest of the church was filled with this kind of people, imagine what God could do? His motto is that “the church in incomplete without you!”
