PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI (March 15, 2011) – Editor’s note: This report is part of 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 United …
Haiti: Just Take One Step At a Time
Filed under: News
Tags: Covenant World Relief, Haiti Disaster, Health Care
Haiti: Getting Help Often a Challenge
Filed under: News
Tags: Compassion-Justice, Haiti Disaster
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI (March 15, 2011) – Editor’s note: This report is part of 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 United …
Japanese Missionaries Fear for Loved Ones
Filed under: News
Tags: Asia, Great Lakes, Japan Disaster, Mission
NOVI, MI (March 15, 2011) – Shunichi Miyamoto, one of two missionaries from the Japan Covenant Church to the United States, learned Sunday that his elderly mother is safe although the tsunami that devastated Sendai also destroyed her home.
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Spiritual Direction Focus of March 23 Live Webcast
CHICAGO, IL (March 15, 2011) – Spiritual direction is the focus of the next scheduled live webcast from the Media Center at Covenant offices, to take place at 10 a.m. (CDT) on Wednesday, March 23.
India Rehab Center for Freed Sex Slaves Dedicated
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Tags: Asia, Compassion-Justice, ECC Offices, Evangelism-Outreach, Midwest, Women Ministries
PUNE, INDIA (March 15, 2011) – A new rehabilitation center for women rescued from the sex slave trade was dedicated earlier this month, a project made possible through funding from the Break the Chains initiative in partnership with the Hindustani …
Haiti: Living Each Day – A Miracle
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Tags: Covenant World Relief, Haiti Disaster, Latin America
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI (March 14, 2011) – Editor’s note: This is the first 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 United …
CWR Encourages Support for Japan Relief Fund
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Tags: Asia, Covenant World Relief, Development-Relief, Japan Disaster
CHICAGO, IL (March 14, 2011) – A new fund has been established by Covenant World Relief to aid victims of the earthquakes and tsunami that devastated large areas in Japan last Friday, with more than 1,900 confirmed deaths and thousands …
Disaster Draws Two Churches into Lasting Friendship
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Tags: Development-Relief, Midsouth, Midwest
STROMSBURG, NE (March 14, 2011) – Thirty-four members of Iglesia Evangelica Missionera del Pacto Church in La Villa, Texas, which was devastated by Hurricane Dolly in 2009, traveled here to spend a weekend celebrating the bonds formed between that congregation …
Nominations Open for T.W. Anderson Award
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Tags: Annual Meeting 2011, Leadership
CHICAGO, IL (March 14, 2011) – Nominations for the Theodore (T.W.) Anderson Award are now being accepted.
Covenant Homes Opened to Displaced Families in Chile
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Tags: Covenant World Relief, Development-Relief, Latin America
TOME, CHILE (March 13, 2011) – Members of the Chile Covenant Church in Tomé opened their homes on higher ground for families that had been evacuated from low-lying areas due to fears that a tsunami unleashed by the Japan earthquake …