When so many other voices said no, the Covenant made a momentous decision. We commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the church’s vote to ordain women. […]
Magazine
God’s Call– Camille Wooden
Camille Wooden Senior Pastor, Abundant Life Covenant Bible Church, Pasadena, California; chaplain for the L.A. Sparks Ordained: 2008 My Journey I married my husband, Barry, in 2002 and started a church in 2003. Especially in the beginning we would go […]
God’s Call– Kathy Choi-Lee
Kathy Choi-Lee Pastoral team member (part time), Christ Covenant Church, Villa Park, Illinois Ordained: 2000 My Journey God called me into ministry, and I simply followed. My call began in college as a young Christian. I was asked to co-lead […]
God’s Call– Karen Hinz
Karen Hinz Chaplain, Covenant Village of Northbrook, Illinois Ordained: 2001 My Journey For me, God unfolded his plans slowly, almost stealthily. I was a happy journalist, an editor at a large newspaper. Then I started teaching a yearlong Bible study […]
God’s Call– Marilyn Sandin-Ross
Marilyn Sandin-Ross Retired in 2012 after thirty years of pastoral ministry with the Presbyterian Church Ordained: 1981 My Journey A great-granddaughter of Swedish Mission Covenant immigrants, I was baptized as an infant in 1952 at the Covenant church in Des […]
God’s Call– Ileana Garcia-Soto
Ileana Garcia-Soto Solo pastor (part-time), Prince of Peace Covenant Church, Mondovi, Wisconsin Ordained: 2013 My Journey Why did I go into ministry? God called. It was as simple as that. The call came early in life, but at first I […]
God’s Call– JoAnn Deasy
JoAnn Deasy Director of institutional initiatives and student research at the Association of Theological Schools, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Ordained: 2000 My Journey When I was in high school, I had a locker next to Mark Krieger, who later became a Covenant […]
God’s Call– Diane Stevenson
Diane Stevenson Associate pastor, Bethany Covenant Church, Berlin, Connecticut Commissioned: 1980 Ordained: 1998 My Journey I first sensed a call to ministry in junior high. I’d never experienced any women in ministry other than teaching children in Sunday school, so […]
God’s Call– Carol Shimmin Nordstrom
Carol Shimmin Nordstrom Retired in January 2016 from full-time ministry Ordained: June 1978 My Journey I knew that God had called me to full-time Christian ministry. When God calls, you do not say no. My journey reflects a path of […]
God’s Call– Sarah Henry
Sarah Henry Associate pastor, Faith Evangelical Covenant Church, Wheaton, Illinois Ordained: 2016 My Journey I began the path to ordination in 2014, but after I forgot to fill out some of the paperwork, it was pushed to the following year. […]
God’s Call– Dany Flores
Dany Flores Pastor, Iglesia del Pacto Vida Plena, Oak Park, Illinois Ordained: 2013 My Journey My journey hasn’t always been easy, but it has been edifying. It started when my husband and I, along with three other couples, were sent […]
God’s Call– Mary Miller
Mary Miller Chaplain of Covenant Village of Cromwell, Connecticut Ordained: 1981 My Journey My ministry has been put as “first” in many things—first North Park Seminary class with women entering pastorate, then the first woman to be called to a […]