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Interim Team to Provide Seminary Leadership
CovChurch.org News - Mon, 07/12/2010 - 7:07am
CHICAGO, IL (July 9, 2010) – A three-person “senior leadership team” will help guide North Park Theological Seminary during the search for a new school president.Team members are...
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Associate Pastor Killed, Member Injured in Bus Crash
CovChurch.org News - Wed, 07/07/2010 - 10:05pm
INCHEON, KOREA (July 6, 2010) – An associate pastor of Highrock Covenant Church in Arlington, Massachusetts, was killed and another member critically injured when the bus in which they were...
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Surprise Call: ‘We Want to Help Restore Your Church’
CovChurch.org News - Wed, 07/07/2010 - 10:05pm
WHITEHALL, MI (July 6, 2010) – The pastor of Lakewood Bible Church was befuddled when a person he had never met called to ask if members of the congregation would volunteer to help Whitehall...
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Visitors Impressed with Anti-Violence Ministries
CovChurch.org News - Wed, 07/07/2010 - 2:06am
CHICAGO, IL (July 2, 2010) – A visit by the leaders of two international Evangelical Covenant churches to the anti-domestic violence ministry Wellspring Center of Hope on Tuesday was inspiring...
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Orris Leaving Evangelism Position to Plant Church
CovChurch.org News - Wed, 07/07/2010 - 2:06am
CHICAGO, IL (July 2, 2010) - Lisa Orris will be leaving her position as director of evangelism for the Evangelical Covenant Church to accept a call to plant a church in an area south of Chicago, it was...
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This Leader Award Costs Recipients Some Money
CovChurch.org News - Tue, 07/06/2010 - 6:06am
REDWOOD CITY, CA (July 1, 2010) – Winning a staff leadership award at Peninsula Covenant Church is costing each recipient some money.The winners get a trophy, but also must donate $30. The funds...
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News Briefs: Covenanters Making Headlines
CovChurch.org News - Tue, 07/06/2010 - 6:06am
ST. PAUL, MN (July 1, 2010) – The African American Ministers Association (AAMA) recently recognized newly appointed Pacific Southwest Conference Superintendent Efrem Smith and 12 of its members...
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Missionary Reports No Damage from Mexico Quake
CovChurch.org News - Tue, 07/06/2010 - 6:06am
OAXACA, MEXICO (June 30, 2010) – Evangelical Covenant Church missionary Jo Ellen Reaves said this morning that a magnitude 6.2 earthquake that hit the state this morning caused no injuries or...
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VBS Outreach with a Multicultural Flavor
CovChurch.org News - Tue, 07/06/2010 - 6:06am
GLENVIEW, IL (June 29, 2010) – After Glenview Covenant Church closed two years ago, the members each started attending various congregations that became their new church homes, but the...
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Covenant Represented at Reconciliation Conference
CovChurch.org News - Tue, 07/06/2010 - 12:05am
CHAPEL HILL, NC (July 2, 2010) – A recent conference at Duke University will further enable the Evangelical Covenant Church to be more intentional about pursuing reconciliation, say denomination...
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Three Honored with ACCW Awards
CovChurch.org News - Sat, 07/03/2010 - 8:05am
ST. PAUL, MN (June 26, 2010) – The Association for Covenant Clergy Women presented three awards during the Covenant Ministerium business session.The $300 Victoria Welter Book Scholarship was...
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Pastor May Be Oldest to Receive Ordination
CovChurch.org News - Sat, 07/03/2010 - 8:05am
ST. PAUL, MN (June 28, 2010) – When hands were laid on Roy White and he was prayed over Sunday morning, Roy White – at age 77 – may have become the oldest minister ever to receive his...
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Message the Same – But Questions Have Changed
CovChurch.org News - Sat, 07/03/2010 - 8:05am
ST. PAUL, MN (June 27, 2010) – This morning’s worship service celebrated the ordination, commissioning and consecration of new ministers and missionaries as they prepare to further their...
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Four Timothy Johnsons in the Covenant – Surprised?
CovChurch.org News - Thu, 07/01/2010 - 9:05am
ST. PAUL, MN (June 28, 2010) – Timothy B. Johnson, pastor of the Evangelical Covenant Church in Bloomington, Minnesota, enjoyed the festivities Saturday on Raspberry Island that were part of the...
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Special Annual Meeting News Page Available
CovChurch.org News - Thu, 07/01/2010 - 9:05am
ST. PAUL, MN (June 29, 2010) – All of the stories, photographs, videos and other news coverage of the just-concluded 125th Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Covenant Church can be found in the...
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Reconciliation – Must Do It, Not Just Believe It
CovChurch.org News - Mon, 06/28/2010 - 9:05am
ST. PAUL, MN (June 26, 2010) – If the Evangelical Covenant Church is to truly affirm its “commitment to the whole mission of the church,” individuals and groups within the...
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Delegates Approve Resolution on Criminal Justice
CovChurch.org News - Mon, 06/28/2010 - 9:05am
ST. PAUL, MN (June 26, 2010) – Delegates to the 125th Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Covenant Church today approved a Resolution on Criminal Justice with only one delegate voting against the...
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Delegates Approve $20 Million Budget for 2011
CovChurch.org News - Mon, 06/28/2010 - 9:05am
ST. PAUL, MN (June 26, 2010) – Delegates to the 125th Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Covenant Church approved a $20.8 million Mission and Ministry Budget for 2011.The budget format reflects...
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Samuel Alvarado Honored with T.W. Anderson Award
CovChurch.org News - Sun, 06/27/2010 - 6:06am
ST. PAUL, MN (June 26, 2010) – For six months at ten o’clock every night, Samuel Alvarado would go to the home of a fellow Dearborn Covenant Church member who was dying of ALS (Lou...
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Candidates Approved for Ordination, Commissioning, Consecration
CovChurch.org News - Sat, 06/26/2010 - 5:05pm
ST. PAUL, MN (June 26, 2010) - Delegates to the 125th Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Covenant Church today approved the following candidates for ordination to word and sacrament, specialized...
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