GRAND RAPIDS, MI (August 7, 2008) – Eighteen-year-old Elizabeth Stone, who was adopted from a Romanian orphanage when she was just four years old, is preparing to leave later this month for the 2009 Beijing Paralympic Games.
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North Park Now Offers Degree in Music and Worship
CHICAGO, IL (August 7, 2008) – Once upon a time, the music minister at a church directed the choir and maybe played the organ and piano. No more.
Durham Professors Headline Lund Memorial Lectures
CHICAGO, IL (August 6, 2008) – The Annual Nils Lund Memorial Lectures at North Park Theological Seminary will be given September 24-25 by two colleagues who are professors at the University of Durham, United Kingdom.
Caring for the Earth – Good Stewardship, Not Politics
OMAHA, NE (August 6, 2008) – First Covenant Church will host J. Matthew Sleeth, a former hospital chief of staff and emergency room director who dramatically downsized his lifestyle and later wrote the well-reviewed Serve God, Save the Planet: A …
A Wellspring in Paradise
By J. Monty Stewart
AIEA, HI (August 5, 2008) – Emerging from the Honolulu International Airport on the island of Oahu, you get your first whiff of paradise. Verdant palm trees wave in the seawater-scented breeze, and you can almost …
A Brief Look – Covenanters Making News
AEIA, HI (August 5, 2008) – Wellspring Covenant Church’s ministry to the families of inmates is featured in the current issue of PRISM magazine, which is published by Evangelicals for Social Action. To read the column by J. …
German Pastors Explore Church Planting with Detroit Churches
DETROIT, MI (August 5, 2008) – When doing evangelism in Germany, “We have to start from scratch,” says René Mühe, one of 28 pastors from that country who recently spent two weeks visiting Evangelical Covenant churches here to learn more …
Fire Destroys Argentina Church; Fund Established
BARILOCHE, ARGENTINA (August 4, 2008) – Fire destroyed the Evangelical Covenant Church of Bariloche on Friday, Covenant News Service has learned.
Memorial Service Friday for Margaret (Kalson) Lindquist
FARGO, ND (August 4, 2008) – A memorial service will be conducted August 8 for Margaret (Kalson) Lindquist, 86, a retired Evangelical Covenant Church missionary to Congo, who died Thursday.
Memorial Service Set for Betty (Tyson) Johnson
SANTA BARBARA, CA (August 4, 2008) – A memorial service will be conducted on Friday, August 15, for Betty (Tyson) Johnson, 91, widow of Evangelical Covenant Church pastor Cecil Johnson. Betty died July 28.