{"id":2207,"date":"2008-07-25T20:34:09","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T20:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/newswire\/?p=2207"},"modified":"2010-12-22T12:23:14","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T17:23:14","slug":"6464","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/newswire\/2008\/07\/25\/6464\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Congregations Join in \u2018International Sunday\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. CLOUD, MN (July 25, 2008) \u2013 The four congregations that use the Hope Covenant Church facility recently worshiped together for the first time during an \u201cInternational Sunday\u201d service.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nChurches worshiping together were Hope Covenant Church, Korean Baptist Church, Lao<br \/>\nCovenant Church, and a South Sudan Covenant ministry.<\/p>\n<p>The attendees learned greetings in each language. Readers from each of the congregations shared the same scripture passage in their own language. Congregations also sang one musical piece in their native tongue. They also sang together songs that were familiar to each congregation.<\/p>\n<p>The service concluded with communion, and the participants joined voices for a simultaneous multilingual hymn. Afterward, attendees were treated to light cuisine representing several cultures and had time to visit.<\/p>\n<p>Leaders from the congregations expressed interest in planning another International Sunday before next summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/newswire?moderation_action=report_form&#038;object_type=post&#038;object_id=2207&#038;width=250&#038;height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. CLOUD, MN (July 25, 2008) \u2013 The four congregations that use the Hope Covenant Church facility recently worshiped together for the first time during an \u201cInternational Sunday\u201d service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Four Congregations Join in \u2018International Sunday\u2019 - Covenant Newswire Archives<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/newswire\/2008\/07\/25\/6464\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Four Congregations Join in \u2018International Sunday\u2019 - Covenant Newswire Archives\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"ST. 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