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New Covenant iPhone App Now Available – Free!
CHICAGO, IL (July 30, 2010) – A new Covenant iPhone application is now available free through the Apple iTunes Store that allows users to check the daily Covenant Newswire online news report and...
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News in Brief: Covenanters Making Headlines
LAKE GENEVA, WI (July 30, 2010) – A recent walk sponsored by Covenant Harbor Bible Camp and Conference Center to raise funds for Break the Chains proved to be an educational outreach as well as a...
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Walk Across Africa to Raise Funds for Water Projects
CHICAGO, IL (July 29, 2010) – Amy Russell remembers, “I was sitting at home and the thought came to me, ‘You should walk across Africa.’ ”Most people would brush such an...
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Serving Those in Need – No Ordinary Internship
GRAND RAPIDS, MI (July 28, 2010) – Summer is a time when many church youth groups participate in mission trips, but a growing number of high school and college students at Thornapple Covenant...
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Conde-Frazier: ‘The Kingdom of God Is Within Us’
WASHINGTON, D.C. (July 23, 2010) – The kingdom of God is within you. The call of God is on your life. And if the kingdom lives within, the call is to let the light of Christ shine, allowing our...
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Duke Divinity: Covenant Influence Larger Than Its Size
CHAPEL HILL, NC (July 28, 2010) – Faith and Leadership, a website published by Duke Divinity School, recently highlighted the Evangelical Covenant Church, emphasizing that the denomination has...
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Church Hit by Tornado Reaching Out to Neighbors
ROCHESTER, MN (July 27, 2010) – Although the Rochester Covenant Church sustained damage caused by a series of tornadoes that ripped through the area on June 17, the congregation is focusing on...
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Alaska Missionary’s Descendents Gather for Reunion
ANCHORAGE, AK (July 27, 2010) – More than 150 descendents of one of the first Evangelical Covenant Church missionaries to work in Alaska gathered for a family reunion last weekend. Ludvig E. Ost...
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Ruth Hill Will Not Seek Re-election
WASHINGTON D.C. (July 25, 2010) – Ruth Hill choked back tears as she told women gathered at Triennial XIII Saturday that she would not seek re-election as executive minister of the Department of...
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Miss America – A Platform for Sharing Faith
WASHINGTON, D.C. (July 24, 2010) – It was her battle with anorexia that captured much of the media spotlight for 2008 Miss America Kirsten Haglund, but it was the inner struggle with personal...
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Hill: ‘Honor of Christ in Hands of His Followers’
WASHINGTON, D.C (July 25, 2010) – In her last sermon to a Triennial as the Department of Women Ministries executive minister, Ruth Hill declared to the gathering that “your very lives are a...
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Japan Covenant Consecrates Short-term Missionaries
TOKYO, JAPAN (July 26, 2010) – On a hot Sunday afternoon this past weekend, Japan Covenanters gathered in the chapel at Covenant Seminary in Tokyo for a service of consecration for Pastor...
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International Guests Share God’s Work Around World
WASHINGTON, D.C. (July 23, 2010) – It was a moving experience, watching each of the specially invited international guests process into the worship area carrying small candles during...
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Lynne Hybels: ‘Nice Girls Don’t Change the World’
WASHINGTON, D.C. (July 23, 2010) – Nice girls versus good women – that was the contrast painted Friday morning by author, much-in-demand speaker and global engagement advocate Lynne Hybels...
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To Glorify God Requires Time in His Presence
WASHINGTON, D.C. (July 22, 2010) – An air of excitement and anticipation filled the large ballroom at the Omni Shoreham Hotel Thursday evening as hundreds of women joined in the opening worship...
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Award Honors Teacher’s Passion for Space Exploration
MERCER ISLAND, WA (July 22, 2010) – One of the most important lessons Thelma Ritchie wanted to impart to her elementary school science classes was a bold declaration that hung on her classroom...
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Safety Concerns No Deterrent to Orphan Ministry
CHIHUAHUA, MEXICO (July 22, 2010) – Building what they say will be the largest orphanage in Latin America makes living in one of the most dangerous areas of Mexico worth the risk to personal...
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Telephone Service Restored at Covenant Offices
CHICAGO, IL (July 21, 2010) – Telephone service at offices of the Evangelical Covenant Church was restored early this afternoon following an earlier disruption caused by faulty transmission lines...
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Women ‘Walk’ 6,131 Miles to Attend Triennial XIII
KERMAN, CA (July 21, 2010) – Thirty-two women who attend Kerman Covenant Church walked across the United States to the site of Triennial XIII in Washington D.C. and back – and the event...
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Memorial Service Planned for Donald C. Frisk
CHICAGO, IL (July 20, 2010) – A memorial service for Donald C. Frisk, 99, “the theologian of the Covenant,” will be conducted at North Park Covenant Church in early September. Frisk...
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