{"id":7687,"date":"2006-05-09T16:08:05","date_gmt":"2006-05-09T21:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/newswire\/?p=7687"},"modified":"2011-07-06T08:31:39","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T13:31:39","slug":"4894","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/newswire\/2006\/05\/09\/4894\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Lakes Welcomes Three New Churches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>POWELL, OH (May 9, 2006)  &#8211; Delegates to the Great Lakes Conference Annual  Meeting held Thursday through Saturday received three new churches into  membership and availed themselves of classes to enhance outreach  initiatives. Two conference lay members also received honors for their  ministry service.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the new churches are denominational church plants: Artisan  Covenant Church in Rochester, New York, and Designer&#8217;s Covenant Church  in Nashville, Tennessee. To read a previous story on Artisan, please see  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.covchurch.org\/cov\/news\/item4308.html\">Artisan  Covenant Church.<\/a> To read about Designer&#8217;s beginnings, please see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.covchurch.org\/cov\/news\/item3488.html\">Designer Covenant  Church.<\/a> The conference also received the transfer of Four Rivers  Covenant Church in Paducah, Kentucky.<\/p>\n<p>Five classes were offered Friday to the delegates participating in  activities at Faith Covenant Church in Westerville:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How to wire your church for evangelism &#8211; taught by Alex Rahill<\/li>\n<li>Servant Evangelism &#8211; led by Brad Henson, Caleb Skinner<\/li>\n<li>Churchwide Initiatives &#8211; taught by Larry Sherman, Tom Sharkey,  Steven Faulk<\/li>\n<li>Personal Evangelism and exploring the resources of the Department of  Church Growth and Evangelism &#8211; led by Ed Delgado<\/li>\n<li>City Evangelism &#8211; taught Harvey Carey, Tim Smith<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>David and Beth Chilcoat of the Westerville congregation were the  recipients of the first-ever &#8220;David and Beth Chilcoat Award in Church  Outreach.&#8221; They were instrumental in the activities of Young Life in  Columbus, Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>Jim Wallis, who attends Life Covenant Church in Canton, Michigan, was  given the second annual Arv Anderson Award in Church Planting.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2011 The Evangelical Covenant Church.<\/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=7687&#038;width=250&#038;height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POWELL, OH (May 9, 2006) &#8211; Delegates to the Great Lakes Conference Annual Meeting held Thursday through Saturday received three new churches into membership and availed themselves of classes to enhance outreach initiatives. 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