Rev. Mario Bergner founded and leads Redeemed Life Ministries, apastoral care initiative for the cure and maturation of the soul.
Currently, there are 10 Redeemed Life programs running worldwide. He ishusband to Nancy and father to their five children.
Rev. Bergner has an M.Div. from Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry.
As an evangelical, charismatic Anglican priest, Rev. Bergner is one of the few ordained Anglicans taking a clear stand on the biblical view of sexuality. He is the author of Setting Love in Order (Baker, 1995) and numerous articles on healing and sexual redemption in Christ. Rev.Bergner has given apologetic lectures at university campuses on “A Christian Response to Homosexuality.” He has also given weekend seminars on curing the soul through healing prayer at churches in North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. For 16 years he ministered with Leanne Payne in Pastoral Care Ministries conferences worldwide, and for five years he served at Church of the Resurrection in Wheaton, Illinois, where he still worships with his family.
Rev. Mario Bergner led three sessions in the “Pastoral Response to a Sexually Broken World” seminar:
• A Pastoral Response to Homosexuality
• The Practice of the Presence of God
• Sin, the Cross and the True-Self
RICK RICHARDSON
Rev. Rick Richardson has served as the Field Director for Evangelism
with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship as well as the Director for InterVarsity’s Emerging Culture Evangelism Project, and is now the Director of the Masters in Evangelism Program at Wheaton College. He is an ordained minister with an M.Div. from Northern Baptist Seminary. He is author of Evangelism Outside the Box: New Ways to Help People Experience the Good News, Circles of Belonging, Reimagining Evangelism and the Groups Investigating God Bible discussion guides (InterVarsity Press).
Rev. Richardson led the following two sessions in the “Pastoral Response to a Sexually Broken World” seminar:
• Changing Culture, Changing Questions
• Bringing Healing to a Broken World
JULIANA WILHELM
Juliana Wilhelm (M.A. Clinical Psychology from Wheaton College) is a
therapist in private practice specializing in the integration of
Christian healing principles to help women recover from same-sex
attraction, depression and anxiety. She has taught at Elmhurst College
and Indiana Wesleyan University, and has also been a guest lecturer at
both North Central College and Redeemed Lives Ministries Training
Program. Juliana provides counseling services for Christ Church Oak
Brook and currently works with Willow Creek Church in the training of
pastoral caregivers.
Juliana Wilhelm brought the closing session of “Pastoral Response to a
Sexually Broken World” in her talk, “Equipping the Church for Healing
Prayer.”
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