Ronald D. Mehl


Ronald Duane Mehl was the senior pastor of the Beaverton Foursquare Church in Beaverton, Oregon, United States, from 1973 until his death in 2003.
Commonly known as Pastor Ron, Ron Mehl graduated from LIFE Bible College in 1966. That same year he married Joyce Hamrick, also a LIFE Bible college graduate. Pastor Ron and Joyce had two sons, Ron Jr. and Mark.
Mehl began his ministry service in June 1966 as a representative of LIFE Bible College, and became the Youth Pastor at the Portland Foursquare Church in September 1966. By 1969, he was serving as the youth director for the Great Lakes District in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Mehl left Kenosha in 1973 to become the senior pastor of the Beaverton Foursquare Church in Beaverton, Oregon. That first Sunday, only a dozen people attended service. Over the next 30 years, however, attendance on Sundays grew to over 6,000 people, resulting in the largest church congregation in Oregon in 1999.
Mehl held a variety of leadership positions within the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel, including serving for 25 years on the executive council, and for more than 20 years as superintendent of the Columbia West Division. While still senior pastor at Beaverton, the board of regents of LIFE Bible College called upon Mehl to serve as interim president, a position which he held from July 1992 until August 1994. He was also recognized as one of a handful of pastors helping the Foursquare church experience large growth in the 1970s.

Awards and acknowledgements

Published works

  • Surprise Endings: Ten Good Things About Bad Things
  • God Works the Night Shift – Gold Medallion Award, 1995
  • Meeting God at a Dead End
  • What God Whispers in the Night
  • The Cure for a Troubled Heart: Meditations on Psalm 37
  • The Ten Commandments: Reflections on the Father’s Love
  • Love Found a Way: Stories of Christmas
  • Just in Case I Can’t Be There – Gold Medallion Award, 2000
  • A Prayer That Moves Heaven
  • Right With God – Chosen as the official 2003 National Day of Prayer theme book
  • How God Decorates Heaven
  • Who Did It
  • The Greatest Gift: A Collection Devoted to Prayer
  • ''After Words''