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At PCC, one of our core values is "Life Together"—walking alongside one another through the joys, challenges, and everyday moments of life. Our Spiritual Care & Connection Team helps us live out this value by offering encouragement, prayer, hospitality, and meaningful connection to members of our church family. Over the next several weeks, we'd like to introduce you to the wonderful couples who serve on this team. Through these spotlights, you'll have an opportunity to get to know them better, learn what inspires their heart for care ministry, and discover how they seek to reflect Christ's love within our community.

Today's Spiritual Care & Connection Team Spotlight features Glen & Sharon Forrester. We invite you to take a moment to get to know them a little better through the brief bio below.

We have been attending PCC since Sep.1996, nearly 30 years! We transferred to PCC shortly after moving to Cloverdale. We had been active in two other churches in Richmond before that. We have three grown daughters and ten grandchildren, two of whom are married. Two of our daughters live in Langley. One attends PCC. The other has planted Meadows Church with her husband. Our third daughter lives in Alberta. As of July, Sharon and I will have been married for 56 years.

Sharon trained at VGH as a Registered Nurse and, once all three children were in school, she worked in a Physician’s office in Richmond for 20 years. After completing my M.Sc. degree at U.B.C., I worked at a research firm in Vancouver for 22 years, leading in the area of educational planning & research. In 1993, I joined Trinity Western University, to work as Executive Assistant to the President. All three of our daughters graduated from TWU.  We both retired in 2008.

 

Since joining PCC, we have each been involved in various capacities. As a couple, we served as Greeters for many years and periodically served Communion together. In June 2000, we started a Growth Group in our home. Believe it or not, we are still leading that group, although its members have changed many times throughout the years. Sharon served on the Mom’s leadership team for three years and also volunteered with VBS for several years. I served on the Board of Elders for 13 years, acting as Chair for most of those. Currently, we head up the 55+ Leadership Team for the purpose of building community among the senior members of our church. We are also on the Thursday morning Prayer Team and our involvement there led us to also serve on the Spiritual Care and Connection Team. 

 

Over the years, we have found the key to feeling part of a church community is to become actively involved in the life of the congregation and to develop good connection with others. Being in a Growth Group has been instrumental for us and serving in various ways in the Church has been very rewarding. 

 

For us, “Life Together” means showing love to one another, building each other up, providing encouragement, and offering prayer support as needed. It is our hope the Spiritual Care & Connection Team might provide this type of care to the congregation, connecting by phone or in person with those who desire additional support.

We are guided by the Scripture, “Always be humble and gentle. Be patient with each other, making allowance for each other's faults because of your love. Make every effort to keep yourselves united in the Spirit, binding yourselves together with peace. For there is one body and one Spirit, just as you have been called to one glorious hope for the future.”(Eph. 4:2-4 NLT)