Donald Bergagård (born 13 February 1936 in Öckerö) is a Swedish singer, accordionist and evangelist.
In the late 1950s Bergagård was employed as a pastor in the Pentecostal congregation Elim in Örebro. After visiting Aage Samuelsen's Maran Ata meetings in Oslo in 1959, he resolved to spread the movement in Sweden, becoming one of the founders of the Maranata movement there.[1] He founded the first Swedish Maranata congregation in Örebro in 1960.[2]
He was one of the founders of Maran Ata in Oslo,[citation needed] where he was also a pastor from 2001 to 2004.[3] Later that year, he moved to the United States.[citation needed]
Bergagård wrote the Swedish text to the song där rosor aldrig dör/Till en stad jag är på vandring, dit där rosor aldrig dör. The tune was written by Jack & Jim Elsie, under the original title I am going to a city, where the roses never fade.
In March 1963, Bergagård led a Maran Ata meeting in Jönköping where a 13-year-old boy with diabetes was prayed for. His parents withdrew his insulin shots; the boy died a week later, drawing media attention.[4][5]
Discography
edit- 1971 – Vi ska fara bortom månen
- 1972 – Jag tänker på staden
- 1977 – Gud kan
- 1978 – Jesus har berett en himmel
- 1982 – Andliga sånger & country
- 1983 – Min kung och jag
- 1984 – Paradiset väntar
- 1985 – Det finns en kärlek
- 1988 – Halleluja, Hosianna, Jesus kommer
- 1993 – Vid havet av kristall
- 1999 – Viloplats i ljusa staden
- 2001 – Den Gud som är på höjden, Han är också i dalen
References
edit- ^ Lie, Geir, ed. (2008). Norsk pinsekristendom og karismatisk fornyelse: ettbinds oppslagsverk (PDF). Refleks (in Norwegian). Vol. 8. Oslo: REFLEKS Publishing. p. 133. ISBN 978-82-996599-8-7. Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 July 2021. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
- ^ Lindberg, Alf (1985). Väckelse, frikyrklighet, pingströrelse: väckelse och frikyrka från 1800-talets mitt till nutid [Revival, Free Church, Pentecostalism: revival and free church from the mid-19th century to the present]. Pingstskolornas Skriftserie (in Swedish). Ekerö: Kaggeholms folkhögskola.
- ^ Verdistrid i Maran Ata-menigheten. VG Verdens Gang, 28 August 2004
- ^ Lindorm, Per-Erik (ed.), Panorama 1963, page 102-103.
- ^ Svensk allmän årsbok. När Var Hur 1964, page 66. ISSN 0347-3333