{"id":8339,"date":"2004-12-13T18:00:55","date_gmt":"2004-12-13T23:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/newswire\/?p=8339"},"modified":"2011-07-06T08:28:37","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T13:28:37","slug":"4004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/newswire\/2004\/12\/13\/4004\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Churches Sending Volunteers to Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WARREN, MN (December 13, 2004)\u00a0 &#8211; Two Evangelical Covenant churches are teaming\u00a0 up next month to help a Florida congregation whose building sustained\u00a0 extensive damage during the hurricane season this fall.<!--more--><\/p>\n<div>First Covenant Church of Vero Beach will host the Evangelical Covenant\u00a0 Church of Warren and Schaumburg Covenant Church in Schaumburg, Illinois,\u00a0 as both congregations are bringing groups of volunteers. The Minnesota\u00a0 church has team members ranging from ages 14 to senior adults, said\u00a0 pastor Brian Schanil. They will leave January 3 for the long drive south. The Schaumburg group will send\u00a0 a number of retired construction workers, said church mission project\u00a0 coordinator Sterling Mueller.<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;We try . . . to do one home, domestic and overseas mission over the\u00a0 course of three years,&#8221; said Schanil, who will be one of the members of\u00a0 the mission team. &#8220;We wondered, with all of the hurricanes down in\u00a0 Florida, whether there was something to do there. That&#8217;s how it all\u00a0 started. We were in Mexico doing an international mission trip a couple\u00a0 of years ago and we&#8217;ve tried to look around and see what&#8217;s needed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>After contacting Southeast Conference Supt. Kurt Miericke, Schanil&#8217;s\u00a0 mission team contacted First Covenant Church pastor Tristan Hohler.\u00a0 Although the details of the work have yet to be finalized, the churches\u00a0 will engage in some sort of construction while tearing down any loose\u00a0 debris and extraneous items from the church building.<\/p>\n<div>Schaumburg Covenant Church in Chicago&#8217;s northwest suburbs is sending a\u00a0 mission team of nearly a dozen to Vero Beach, Florida, beginning January\u00a0 3 said Mueller. Finished carpentry, dry walling and taping are among the\u00a0 jobs the group will complete, said Mueller, a retired construction\u00a0 worker. A handful of people have similar work resumes, giving First\u00a0 Covenant plenty of qualified help. However, the church has not been able\u00a0 to secure roofing materials to completely finish a roof that was damaged\u00a0 during hurricane season. Mueller said if necessary, his group would be\u00a0 willing to bring roofing materials down south.<\/p>\n<div>Last year, a team from Schaumburg worked with a Mexican church on\u00a0 construction and a team is headed to Covenant Mountain Mission Bible\u00a0 Camp in March on a cooperative work trip with students from North Park University. The team\u00a0 will build cabins at the camp and, in June, a group will return to the\u00a0 camp to help run one of its summer youth programs for a week.<\/p>\n<div>Schaumburg Covenant has an average worship attendance of 100 under\u00a0 pastor Dan Anderson. To learn more about the church&#8217;s upcoming mission\u00a0 trip, call Mueller at 847-439-6988. The team is willing to take other construction-minded\u00a0 people for the trip to Florida and is seeking assistance to run the\u00a0 youth camp in June.<\/p>\n<div>The Evangelical Covenant Church of Warren has an average worship\u00a0 attendance of 70 and has been heavily missions-minded for many years. To\u00a0 learn more about the Minnesota church&#8217;s mission ministries, call Schanil\u00a0 at 218-745-4191.<\/p>\n<div>Schanil noted that the church participated in a July trip Tajikistan and\u00a0 discovered a unique ministry possibility through strawboard\u00a0 manufacturing. 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