CHICAGO, IL (April 19, 2007) \u2013 Evangelical Covenant Church (ECC) missionary veterans Baxter and Margie Swenson have accepted a call to become co-directors of missionary personnel for the Department of World Mission.
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\nThe Swensons served for 24 years as missionaries in Colombia and Ecuador, and for the past eight years they have worked with Covenant Bible College (CBC) in Ecuador. They will relocate to Chicago and assume their new duties August 1.<\/p>\n
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The new position is part of a missions reorganization plan presented during the 2006 Annual Meeting. The couple will share responsibilities for missionary recruitment and assessment, education and training, member care, life transitions, itineration, prayer, and family support.<\/p>\n
\u201cMargie and Baxter will continue their missionary leadership by helping to raise up a new generation of Covenant missionaries and by helping to equip them for effective, sustained and strategic missionary service,\u201d says Curt Peterson, executive minister of Covenant World Mission.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Swensons will work with college and seminary students and second career adults to consider a call to mission ministry. They will help provide pastoral care and crisis support for missionary families, complementing the work of regional and country coordinators and the Member Care Council of care professionals. And, they also will be available to speak in local Covenant churches about opportunities in mission service.<\/p>\n