{"id":13496,"date":"2017-06-21T14:48:32","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T21:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dminlgp\/phil-goldsberry-spotlight-bio-story\/"},"modified":"2017-06-21T14:48:32","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T21:48:32","slug":"phil-goldsberry-spotlight-bio-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/phil-goldsberry-spotlight-bio-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Phil Goldsberry: Spotlight Bio Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Version<\/a>Phil Goldsberry lives up to the title of his book, Life in the Dash<\/em><\/strong>: A Closer Look at the Not-So-Fine Line Between Birth and What Happens Next<\/em><\/strong>, that he published in 2007.\u00a0 In his book he encourages everyone to live the life that they want to be spoken about when the inevitable happens.\u00a0 His prescribed epitaph is, \u201cLove God, Love People\u201d.<\/p>\n

Anyone who spends a few minutes with Phil will know that he is a gifted and articulate leader that is not afraid to risk.\u00a0 The word \u201cnormal\u201d is not a part of his vocabulary.\u00a0 He embraces excellence and passion in everything he does.\u00a0 The word \u201clazy\u201d has never been used to describe Phil.<\/p>\n

Next to his passion for God is his passion for his family.\u00a0\u00a0 Pamela, his wife since his first year of college in 1976, is the love of his life.\u00a0 Be around the two of them and you will know that they are still madly in love with each other.\u00a0 Together they have produced three children that reflect the two of them in so many aspects.\u00a0 The Goldsberry family still enjoys family vacations together even though two of their children are in their thirties.<\/p>\n

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Beside his beautiful wife and three children, his five grandchildren will be the topic of conversation very quickly.\u00a0 Being \u201cPoppy\u201d to these five, is one of Phil\u2019s greatest accomplishments in life.\u00a0 Though they live bicoastal, \u201cPoppy\u201d will see his grandkids multiple times per year.<\/p>\n

Phil has been a pastor for over 35 years serving from a church planter in the New York metro area to a mega-church of over 5,000 in Nashville.\u00a0 Beyond the pulpit he loves music and the adrenaline rush from water sports to motorcycles.\u00a0 He has a keen eye for interior design, business and an entrepreneurial spirit that initiated his first business in elementary school.<\/p>\n

Phil has traveled extensively for ministry and pleasure.\u00a0 He co-founded a foundation, Soter Global Ministries, <\/em><\/strong>which reaches into second and third world countries offering medical training, emergency preparedness, business training, and pastoral care.\u00a0 He presently serves as the Chairman of the Board.<\/p>\n

Phil serves on the senior leadership team of Global Network of Christian Ministries<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 Global is a \u201crelationship based clearing house\u201d for ministers to connect and develop relationships both in the United States and around the world.<\/p>\n

Phil\u2019s desire for education prompted him to pursue his master\u2019s degree at Oral Roberts University in his early fifties.\u00a0 He is now pursuing his Doctor of Ministry from George Fox University in preparation for a future role as an educator to the next generation.\u00a0 His doctoral program is focused on \u201cLeadership in Global Perspectives\u201d.\u00a0 His doctoral program will have Phil traveling to three concentrations in Hong Kong, London, and South Africa over the duration of his doctoral program.<\/p>\n

Since his twenties, he has envisioned a university connected to a church he would pastor.\u00a0 Phil\u2019s heart for education is evident within his local church and the programs that surround his local church.\u00a0\u00a0 Time is yet to tell how this will unfold in Phil\u2019s future.<\/p>\n

Phil lives in the Phoenix, Arizona area where he pastors Christ Life Church<\/em><\/strong>, a multi-site church.\u00a0 His dream is to establish seven campuses in the Phoenix Valley within the next decade.\u00a0 Christ Life Church <\/em><\/strong>is a Bible-based, Christian church that desires to Reach, Impact, and Empower people into a life-changing relationship with Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n

Phil has an uncanny fear of heights.\u00a0\u00a0 As long as the surface below him is solid and not transparent, he does well.\u00a0 His ability to risk helped him to skydive from 15,000 feet over Kauai, Hawaii and face that fear when he turned 50 years old.<\/p>\n

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Phil Goldsberry lives up to the title of his book, Life in the Dash: A Closer Look at the Not-So-Fine Line Between Birth and What Happens Next, that he published in 2007.\u00a0 In his book he encourages everyone to live the life that they want to be spoken about when the inevitable happens.\u00a0 His prescribed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}