Lindsay Bergstrom
Lindsay Bergstrom — a veteran editor and graphic designer who worked nearly two decades mostly behind the scenes in a myriad of roles for Baptist News Global and its predecessor, Associated Baptist Press — is taking her talents elsewhere.
Bergstrom, currently creative services director for the independent news organization formed in a 2014 merger with the Religious Herald, begins Feb. 14 as director of operations and communications for the New Baptist Covenant, an organization aimed at healing racial and theological divisions among Baptists in the United States.
Phaedra Blocker
Bergstrom, a member of Hendricks Avenue Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Fla., isn’t the only new hire at the network that began with a gathering of Baptist leaders from across the country convened by former President Jimmy Carter in 2007. Phaedra Blocker, affiliate professor in leadership and formation at Palmer Theological Seminary, started Feb. 1 as director of programs.
“This is a wonderful time of growth for NBC, and I am delighted to welcome Dr. Phaedra Blocker and Lindsay Bergstrom to the New Baptist Covenant staff,” said Executive Director Hannah McMahon. “The work of NBC has never been more important, and I am excited about the wisdom and creativity these women will bring to the work of the New Baptist Covenant.”
Bergstrom joined the staff of Associated Baptist Press in 1999 while running her own graphics design firm in Jacksonville, Fla. Before that, she served 11 years on the staff of the Florida Baptist Witness, news journal for the Florida Baptist Convention.
Her work there began alongside Greg Warner, the newspaper’s associate editor who left in 1991 to become founding editor of Associated Baptist Press. She served briefly as acting editor when Jack Brymer, the editor who hired them both, resigned abruptly in a dispute with the newspaper’s board of trustees in 1994.
Before moving to Florida, Bergstrom, a native Texan, worked three years as graphic designer for the Radio and Television Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, a Fort Worth-based agency dissolved in the 1990s and rolled into the current North American Mission Board.
She is a graduate of Howard Payne University in Brownwood, Texas. She and her husband, Travis Bergstrom, have three grown children.
Bergstrom’s most recent responsibilities at Baptist News Global include design and production of Herald, a magazine for donors to BNG’s annual fund and other stakeholders published four times a year, managing the website baptistnews.com and providing support to the BNG editorial team.
David Wilkinson, executive director and publisher of Baptist News Global, said the news outlet “will miss her terribly.”
“At the same time, she goes to NBC with our gratitude, blessing and friendship,” Wilkinson said in a memo announcing the resignation to the BNG board. “NBC’s mission resonates profoundly with Lindsay’s commitment of faith and her passion for racial justice. She will be a tremendous asset to NBC, and we are excited about this opportunity for her.”