LMDJ Announces Grant Recipients
CHICAGO (July 22, 2020)—Each year the Love Mercy Do Justice mission priority provides grants to ministry projects that seek individual and community transformation through or alongside the local church. Ministries are invited to apply for a Ministry Development Grant, and […]
World Vision Invites Pastors to Racial Righteousness Journey
(July 20, 2020)—Covenant pastors are invited to participate in May We Be One—Pastors Pursuing Racial Righteousness, a one-year journey for pastors, convened by World Vision. The purpose is to create a “community of pastors who are seeking to engage with […]
I Can’t Go Back to Normal
The American narrative that equates success with self-sufficiency poisons our identity as children of God.
There Is No Small Talk in Quarantine
The Education of an Introvert
Dear White Church
Rediscipling the White Church From Cheap Diversity to True Solidarity David W. Swanson InterVarsity Press, 208 pages Reviewed by Liz Mosbo Verhage | July 14, 2020 “In the spiritual battle for a more reconciled church, every single majority-white congregation has a [...]
Grace in the Waiting Space
Stories of Ministry in a Time Apart
Six-Fold Test Summit: What Does It Mean to Practice Solidarity?
(July 8, 2020) — The Mosaic Commission of the Evangelical Covenant Church, formerly called the Ethnic Commission, convened a Six-Fold Test Reset Summit last month to discuss how the ECC is living into the Six-Fold Test, especially in the current […]
Reimagining Church
In May, when churches were in the second month of a nationwide shut- down, John Wenrich, president of the Evangelical Covenant Church, sat down with Ed Stetzer, contributing editor for Christianity Today, executive director of Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College, and interim teaching pastor at Moody Church in Chicago, to talk about ministry and leadership.
Obituary: Robert S. Thornbloom—Link to Online Service Available
By Bob Smietana NORTHBROOK, IL (June 6, 2020) – Robert S. Thornbloom, retired Covenant missionary engineer whose life was devoted to the work of the church in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, died Wednesday, June 3, from complications of […]
The Power of “Yes”: Oceanhills Covenant Church Raises $1 Million for DR Congo
(June 25, 2020) – Oceanhills Covenant Church in Santa Barbara, California, has been raising funds for the past eight years for Covenant Kids Congo, a partnership between the Evangelical Covenant Church, World Vision, and the Covenant Church of Congo. Recently […]
Juneteenth March Draws Over 700
By Nilwona Nowlin (June 24, 2020) — On Friday, June 19, Radiant Covenant Church in Renton, Washington, commemorated the Juneteenth holiday with an event they called March to Surrender. Mike Thomas, Radiant’s senior pastor, says the idea for the march […]
Congregational Vitality Launches “2.0”
(June 24, 2020) – Earlier this month, the Start and Strengthen Churches mission priority team hosted its second session of a two-part retreat launching what Paul Lessard, executive minister for Start and Strengthen Churches, calls Vitality 2.0. The first retreat […]