{"id":45,"date":"2009-07-13T18:03:45","date_gmt":"2009-07-13T22:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ziegelbaur\/?p=45"},"modified":"2009-07-13T18:11:48","modified_gmt":"2009-07-13T22:11:48","slug":"covenant-annual-meeting-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ziegelbaur\/?p=45","title":{"rendered":"Covenant Annual Meeting Highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ron and Janet were honored to attend (June 25-28)\u00a0the 124th annual meeting of the Evangelical Covenant Church of America as delegates for 1st Covenant Church of Grand Rapids, MI.\u00a0\u00a0We were encouraged to see, for the first time in 8 years, the commissioning of\u00a0long term missionaries &#8211; former Project Missionaries (Shims &amp; Restrepos).\u00a0\u00a0 We were blessed to be present for the\u00a0recognition of retirement for\u00a0our dear friend and collegue Karen Benson (aka KB).\u00a0 Below is a link to view video of some highlights.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.covchurch.org\/am\/2009\/video-archive\">http:\/\/www.covchurch.org\/am\/2009\/video-archive<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We,\u00a0with long term missionaries Karen Benson and Judy Dolan,\u00a0were also honored to be consecrated for missionary service at the Ordination Service.\u00a0 Dressed in black robes, we each\u00a0received special stoles and new Bibles.\u00a0 Also, having been already commissioned as long term\u00a0Covenant missionaries years ago, we had the priviledge\u00a0of\u00a0laying hands on the 4 new\u00a0missionaries\u00a0who were commissioned at this annual meeting and were also consecrated\u00a0in this service.\u00a0 Thanks to the Covenant Ministerium and Dept. of World Mission for inviting us to participate in that service.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_50\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-50\" title=\"kb-zs-curt-with-stoles\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2009\/07\/kb-zs-curt-with-stoles-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"Ron, Janet, KB &amp; Curt Peterson after Consecration to Mission Service\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ziegelbaur\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2009\/07\/kb-zs-curt-with-stoles-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ziegelbaur\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2009\/07\/kb-zs-curt-with-stoles-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-50\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ron, Janet, KB &amp; Curt Peterson after Consecration to Mission Service<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/ziegelbaur?moderation_action=report_form&object_type=post&object_id=45&width=250&height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ron and Janet were honored to attend (June 25-28)\u00a0the 124th annual meeting of the Evangelical Covenant Church of America as delegates for 1st Covenant Church of Grand Rapids, MI.\u00a0\u00a0We were encouraged to see, for the first time in 8 years, the commissioning of\u00a0long term missionaries &#8211; former Project Missionaries (Shims &amp; Restrepos).\u00a0\u00a0 We were blessed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - 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