TURLOCK, CA (November 11, 2011) – A memorial service for retired missionary Norman Dwight, 86, will be conducted at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, November 15 at Hilmar Covenant Church.
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Services Pending for Missionary Norman Dwight
TURLOCK, CA (November 10, 2011) – Services are pending for retired Covenant missionary Norman Dwight, 86, who died yesterday. He was a resident of Covenant Village in Turlock, California.
Scholarships for Orphans Offer Hope
CHICAGO, IL (November 7, 2011) – As Christians around the world observed Orphan Sunday yesterday, Kim Crawford of the Department of World Mission, exhorted Covenanters to remember the children who are so easily forgotten.
Flooding Forces Abundant Life Center to Close
BANGKOK, THAILAND (October 28, 2011) – Abundant Life Center has been closed temporarily in anticipation of possible flooding from waters that have ravaged other parts of the city, says Byron Amundsen, director of administration and finance for the Department of …
Art Helps Victims Find Meaning Amid Devastation
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Written on October 20th, 2011
Filed under: News
Tags: Compassion-Justice, Latin America, Mission
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Tags: Compassion-Justice, Latin America, Mission
TOMÉ, CHILE (October 20, 2011) – Mission Friends Covenant Church is working with women artists in the nearby community of Dichato, who are reclaiming their lives and hoping to enrich others spiritually and economically more than a year after a …
Regheta Joins in Entrepreneurial ‘Think Tank’
KLAIPEDA, LITHUANIA (October 17, 2011) – Leonid Regheta, an Evangelical Covenant Church missionary, was one of 30 people from around the world who took part in an Entrepreneur Institute “think tank” at LCC International University as part of the school’s …
Asia Event Celebrates 40th Anniversary of Thai Church
ROI ET, THAILAND (October 11, 2011) – A team of Evangelical Covenant Church ministers from across Asia crammed into the small house that is the meeting space for the Thailand Covenant Church congregation, which is located in a rural village …
Olympia Church to Build New Bokonzo Water Tower, Lines
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Written on September 14th, 2011
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Tags: Africa, Development-Relief, Mission, Pacific Northwest
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Tags: Africa, Development-Relief, Mission, Pacific Northwest
OLYMPIA, WA (September 14, 2011) – The water tower in Bokonzo, Democratic Republic of Congo, frequently runs dry, but thousands of people in the area count on that water. Even when the tower is filled, broken supply lines have hampered …
One Church Rebuilds in Ethiopia, Thanks to U.S. Congregations
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Written on August 31st, 2011
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Tags: Africa, Local Church, Mission, Northwest
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Tags: Africa, Local Church, Mission, Northwest
GAMBELA, ETHIOPIA (August 31, 2011) – In 2006, a flood destroyed a church in the Ethiopia Conference of the Evangelical Covenant Church of South Sudan. The church was especially vulnerable to the high waters because, like many other buildings, it …
Combating Violence – Exhausting, But Rewarding Work
MONTERREY, MEXICO (August 1, 2011) – The Foundation for Family Development (FUNDEFAM) recently facilitated an eight-week violence prevention program called Proyecto Cambio (Project Change) at the local junior high school.
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