{"id":4834,"date":"2013-05-29T10:58:17","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T15:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/cwr\/?p=4834"},"modified":"2013-05-29T10:58:17","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T15:58:17","slug":"covenant-relief-response-amazing-daunting-sacrificial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/cwr\/2013\/05\/covenant-relief-response-amazing-daunting-sacrificial\/","title":{"rendered":"Covenant Relief Response: \u2018Amazing, Daunting, Sacrificial\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OKLAHOMA CITY, OK (May 28, 2013) \u2013 The Hindustani Covenant Church (HCC) has sent $2,000 to Covenant World Relief for tornado relief, while at the same time coping with their own natural disaster in India.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis church has been dealing with the most severe drought in over 40 years, yet they gave sacrificially to help people they do not personally know half-way around the world,\u201d said Garth Bolinder, superintendent of the Midsouth Conference of the Evangelical Covenant Church (ECC).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BYdOZI09N60&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to view<\/a>\u00a0a video on the HCC response to the drought.<\/p>\n<p>In an email update, Bolinder said, \u201cThis poor sister Covenant church is modeling Paul\u2019s encouragement in 2 Corinthians 8: \u2018In the midst of a very severe trial, their overflowing joy and their extreme poverty welled up in rich generosity.\u2019 \u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.covchurch.org\/news\/2013\/05\/28\/covenant-relief-response-amazing-daunting-sacrificial\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/cwr?moderation_action=report_form&#038;object_type=post&#038;object_id=4834&#038;width=250&#038;height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OKLAHOMA CITY, OK (May 28, 2013) \u2013 The Hindustani Covenant Church (HCC) has sent $2,000 to Covenant World Relief for tornado relief, while at the same time coping with their own natural disaster in India. \u201cThis church has been dealing with the most severe drought in over 40 years, yet they gave sacrificially to help [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[278],"tags":[18165],"class_list":["post-4834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disaster-relief","tag-us"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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