Donald Bergagård (born 13 February 1936 in
Öckerö
Öckerö () is an island and a locality and the seat of Öckerö Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden with 3,488 inhabitants in 2010.
Sports
The following sports clubs are located in Öckerö:
* Öckerö IF
Öckerö IF is a Swedish f ...
) is a Swedish singer,
accordion
Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed ...
ist and evangelist.
In the late 1950s Bergagård was employed as a pastor in the Pentecostal congregation Elim in Örebro. After visiting
Aage Samuelsen
Aage Samuelsen, also known as "" 'brother Aage', (23 January 1915 – 29 November 1987) was a Norwegian evangelist, singer and composer.
Biography
He was the son of factory worker and navvy Karl Hjalmar Samuelsen and Anna Samuelsen née Hansen, ...
's
Maran Ata
Maran Ata is a Norwegian free church Christian denomination or faith community () founded by Charismatic minister Aage Samuelsen in 1958–1959. The denomination consists of several congregations. Maran Ata is known for its music and a direct an ...
meetings in Oslo in 1959, he resolved to spread the movement in Sweden, becoming one of the founders of the
Maranata movement there.
He founded the first Swedish Maranata congregation in Örebro in 1960.
He was one of the founders of Maran Ata in Oslo, where he was also a pastor from 2001 to 2004. Later that year, he moved to the United States.
Bergagård wrote the Swedish text to the song . 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
Jönköping (, ) is a city in southern Sweden with 112,766 inhabitants (2022). Jönköping is situated on the southern shore of Sweden's second largest lake, Vättern, in the province of Småland.
The city is the seat of Jönköping Municipali ...
where a 13-year-old boy with
diabetes
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was prayed for. His parents withdrew his
insulin
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shots; the boy died a week later, drawing media attention.
[Svensk allmän årsbok. ''När Var Hur 1964'', page 66. ISSN 0347-3333]
Discography
* 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
External links
Maran Ata, Oslo
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People from Öckerö Municipality
Swedish Pentecostal pastors
1936 births
Living people
21st-century accordionists
21st-century Swedish male singers