{"id":698,"date":"2009-06-25T17:15:48","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T17:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/newswire\/?p=698"},"modified":"2010-12-22T12:52:31","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T17:52:31","slug":"7140","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/newswire\/2009\/06\/25\/7140\/","title":{"rendered":"Missionaries Commissioned during Opening Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORTLAND, OR (June 25, 2009) \u2013 Delegates to the 124th Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Covenant Church commissioned the denomination\u2019s first long-term missionaries since 2001 during this evening\u2019s opening worship service.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nBob and Grace Shim have been serving as project missionaries in Central Asia since 2003. They will relocate to Thailand to begin work in medical and community development and counseling.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.covchurch.org\/uploads\/oR\/xR\/oRxROR-sUwcFZymgEGqH_w\/pp-13.jpg\" alt=\"Praying\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" align=\"left\" \/>Lisandro and Patricia Restrepo have been serving as project missionaries in Monterrey, Mexico, with the Family Foundation since 2003. They will continue this work with children and families in community development, evangelism, and discipleship.<\/p>\n<p>Financial constraints had prevented the department from commissioning long-term missionaries, says Byron Amundsen, director of mission and finance. He noted that the two couples had been project ministries and already had developed a strong base of financial support.<\/p>\n<p>Delegates also commissioned 16 new missionaries who will serve between one to three years in countries around the globe. As part of the commissioning service, attendees clustered around the missionaries throughout the large ballroom to lay hands on and pray for them.<\/p>\n<p>Following are the short-term missionaries commissioned during tonight\u2019s worship service:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Japan\u2014Grant and Miho Buchholtz, Highrock Covenant Church, Arlington, Massachusetts<\/li>\n<li>Sweden\u2014Joe Davis, Christian Vision Covenant, Northbrook, Illinois<\/li>\n<li>Ecuador\u2014Joel and Kim Delp, Northwestern Covenant Church, Mt. Prospect, Illinois<\/li>\n<li>Ecuador\u2014Chris and Jenny Hoskins, Flat Irons Community, Lafayette, Colorado; and First Covenant Church, Omaha, Nebraska<\/li>\n<li>Spain\u2014Steve and Rebecca Hoden, Evangelical Covenant Church, Kent, Washington; and Edgebrook Covenant Church, Chicago, Illinois<\/li>\n<li>Mexico\u2014Ellen Hernandez, Vida Internacional Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico<\/li>\n<li>Mexico\u2014Alex Velasco, Iglesia del Pacto la Trinidad, Mission, Texas<\/li>\n<li>India\u2014John and Rebecca Kim, Highrock Covenant Church, Arlington, Massachusetts<\/li>\n<li>Colombia\u2014Kjel Larsen, Mercer Island Covenant Church, Mercer Island, Washington<\/li>\n<li>Colombia\u2014Bud and Karen Locke, River of Life Covenant Church, Sacramento, California<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/newswire?moderation_action=report_form&#038;object_type=post&#038;object_id=698&#038;width=250&#038;height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PORTLAND, OR (June 25, 2009) \u2013 Delegates to the 124th Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Covenant Church commissioned the denomination\u2019s first long-term missionaries since 2001 during this evening\u2019s opening worship 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-698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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