CROMWELL, CT (November 25, 2009) \u2013 Services are pending for retired Evangelical Covenant Church pastor K. Ejnar Rask, 90, who died Tuesday.
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\nRask was born August 15, 1919, in Springfield, Massachusetts, and grew up attending the Evangelical Covenant Church.<\/p>\n
He earned an associate\u2019s degree at North Park College in 1941 and a Bachelor\u2019s in Religion degree at Augustana College in 1944. He graduated from North Park Theological Seminary in 1946.<\/p>\n
Rask married his wife, June, in October 1947.<\/p>\n
Rask served churches on the East Coast and Midwest, including Evangelical Covenant Church (now Flossmoor) in Chicago Heights, Illinois; Evangelical Covenant Church in South Bend, Indiana; Covenant Congregational Church (now Trinity Covenant) in Manchester, Connecticut; Covenant Congregational Church (now East Bridgewater) in Brockton, Massachusetts; First Covenant Church in Jamestown, New York; and Bethlehem Covenant Church, in Worcester, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n
Covenant News Service will publish additional information as it becomes available.<\/p>\n