Posts Tagged ‘Compassion-Justice’

News Briefs: Church Fire, Student Honored, Romanian Relief

Post a Comment » Written on June 20th, 2011     
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GRAND RAPIDS, MI (June 20, 2011) – A fire last Tuesday caused $600,000 in damage to a church building that at one time served as home to Mission Covenant Church.

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Churches Helping Families Threatened with Deportation

Post a Comment » Written on June 14th, 2011     
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CHICAGO, IL (June 14, 2011) – Four Evangelical Covenant churches have formed the North Side Family Support Network to help families threatened with deportation.

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Suddenly Homeless – What Happened to the Dream?

1 Comment » Written on May 16th, 2011     
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By Don Meyer

LOS ANGELES, CA (May 16, 2011) – “I lived just a couple of blocks from where we are standing – right down that street,” she said as we stood in the midst of famed Skid Row, just …

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Students M.O.V.E. to Learn Price of Justice

Post a Comment » Written on April 25th, 2011     
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MINNEAPOLIS, MN (April 25, 2011) – Three hundred and twenty students and youth workers from throughout the Northwest Conference learned “The Price of Justice” when they gathered here for M.O.V.E. 2011—a weekend of teaching, worship, service, and experiential learning.

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Cyclist Raises $2,300 to Help Fight Human Trafficking

5 comments Written on April 14th, 2011     
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By Stan Friedman

YAKIMA, WA (April 14, 2011) – Preston Wade showed he would travel great distances to help teenagers wanting to escape lives of prostitution.

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Two Congregations Find Similarities Outweigh Differences

1 Comment » Written on April 8th, 2011     
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By Stan Friedman

DETROIT, MI (April 8, 2011) – In Fall 2009, the leadership of the Covenant Church of Cheboygan began looking for ways the church could serve outside their small rural community and beyond the boundaries of their comfort …

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Hunger Fast Supports Emergency Food Aid Funding

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CHICAGO, IL (April 8, 2011) – Evangelical Covenant Church members are being encouraged to participate in an ongoing national Hunger Fast, a movement of fasting, prayer and advocacy to protest proposed federal budget cuts in emergency food aid.

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Meal Ministry Goes Beyond Feeding Hungry Families

Post a Comment » Written on March 23rd, 2011     
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McMINNVILLE, OR (March 23, 2011) – Hungry families in this community have the opportunity to eat a delicious soup and salad meal every Sunday night at McMinnville Covenant Church as part of a new ministry that has excited the congregation.…

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New Enabling Residence Opens in Michigan

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GRAND RAPIDS, MI (March 22, 2011) – Six residents are now living at the newest Covenant Enabling Residence for high-functioning handicapped adults, which opened here last month.

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Haiti: How to Sustain Rebuilding Effort

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI (March 18, 2011) – Editor’s note: This report is the last in a week-long series of articles written by Stan Friedman, news editor for Covenant News Service, who spent five days accompanying a five-member medical team from the …

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