Evergreen Life Ministries (ELM) believes in passionate, life-transforming, Spirit-led ministry.  Our desire is to provide preaching, teaching, and resources that help Christian leaders, workers, and everyday believers grow in their walk with the resurrected Lord.  We believe that transformation occurs when we encounter God’s presence.  There is nothing wrong with being user friendly and culturally relevant.  However, a “church system” is only as good as its ability to make room for God’s actual presence.  God is speaking; we are trying our best to hear his voice and to help others do the same.

Evergreen Life Ministries (ELM) operates Evergreen Foursquare Church and Evergreen Community Center.  We also resource individuals and churches with materials that deal with the unique challenges of “Spirit-led” ministry. 

We operate Evergreen Foursquare Church with a desire to create a network of churches who share a passion for loving, grace-filled, Spirit-empowered transformation.  We are also passionate about facilitating a community center revolution with the goal of helping hundreds of Christian community centers open throughout the United States.

For the most part, this site is divided into two areas: 

Evergreen Foursquare Church Information           Evergreen Community Center Information

Pastor Doug Bursch hosts a weekly radio program (The Fairly Spiritual Show) and writes a weekly column also entitled Fairly Spiritual.  If you want information on these endeavors please click on the following link and visit www.fairlyspiritual.org.

Each one of us has a responsibility to share our testimony.  We believe God loves diversity and that reasonable people can disagree about many important ideas concerning God and the church.  We are not asking you to agree with every observation on this site, but we are asking you to keep an open mind and trust that our true intention is to serve God and the church as best we can.  Make room for the Lord!