Our Stories: My name is Bernie Van De Walle, and this is my story. He and I grew up together. We were inseparable. We did everything together. Everything! Our trajectories were identical. These trajectories, however, had no good end. His trajectory ended dreadfully in a police holding cell. He was only 33! How is it that my trajectory took such a radical turn? Why am I here when he is there? Why am I now not with him, in a cemetery, in our home town? Why am I not now buried alongside him, inseparable, as we had been growing up? Or, am I? Bernie is Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology at Ambrose University where he has been on faculty for almost two decades. In addition, he is entering his second term as Chair of the Board of Directors of The Christian and Missionary Alliance in Canada and is the Chair of the International Commission for Theological Education for the Alliance World Fellowship. Bernie, his wife Colleen, and his sons David (Hannah) and Ken have been part of Foothills for 15 years.