Jolene Bergstrom Carlson
Rev. Jolene Bergstrom Carlson began serving as interim pastor in April 2023. In her early career Jolene was a community college teacher and parent educator. She has served in senior and associate pastoral positions in the Chicago area as well as working 10 years as associate superintendent of the Central Conference of the Evangelical Covenant Church. All these experiences informed her and her husband’s work on racial reconciliation. She was the executive director of a national ecumenical non-profit which connected inter-denominational pastors with each other for mentoring. Currently, along with her interim pastorate, she serves as a spiritual director.
Our Leadership Team
At ResCov, we operate on a Leadership Team model of governance. This model intends to be responsive and agile, empowering a small group of lay leaders to make decisions on a variety of routine matters related to the day-to-day operations of the church. Our hope is not that the leadership team will simply manage things from the top-down. While they do act as trustees of the church’s resources, their most important role is to inspire and excite growth from the entire community in our worship, discipleship, mission, and community. The members of the Leadership Team are elected to terms with a set number of years, and are affirmed in these positions by the entire membership of the church. Please feel free to call upon any of these individuals with questions, ideas, suggestions, or concerns.
Our current Leadership Team includes: Marit Johnson Awes, (chair, email [email protected]), Carissa Gomez (vice chair), Anne Wong (financial secretary), Alli Halvorsen (secretary), Peter Dinges, Alex Macias, and John Robinson.