{"id":3291,"date":"2007-05-08T21:09:33","date_gmt":"2007-05-08T21:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/newswire\/?p=3291"},"modified":"2010-12-09T17:08:21","modified_gmt":"2010-12-09T17:08:21","slug":"5570","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/newswire\/2007\/05\/08\/5570\/","title":{"rendered":"East Coast Conference Welcomes Two Churches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEDFORD, NH (May 8, 2007) \u2013 Delegates to the East Coast Conference Annual Meeting welcomed two church adoptions on Saturday.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nSt. Peter\u2019s Covenant Church in Hilltown, Pennsylvania, was founded in 1804 and has a membership of 204 people. Christ Evangelical Covenant Church in Harleysville, Pennsylvania, has 414 members. Both left the United Church of Christ in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting was held at Bethany Covenant Church in Bedford. The church\u2019s pastor, Bob Berquist, led worship prior to the business meeting. Jim Sundholm, director of Covenant World Relief and the Paul Carlson Partnership, spoke to the Conference Ministerium. Curt Peterson, executive minister of Covenant World Mission, spoke to delegates.<\/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=3291&#038;width=250&#038;height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEDFORD, NH (May 8, 2007) \u2013 Delegates to the East Coast Conference Annual Meeting welcomed two church adoptions on Saturday.<\/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-3291","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>East Coast Conference Welcomes Two Churches - 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