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Expensive Water a Reminder of Challenges Facing Haiti

by covwebster – Feb 9, 2010

INTERNATIONAL FALLS, MN (February 9, 2010) – The youth group at International Falls Covenant Church has been charging exorbitant prices for an eight-ounce bottle of water to raise funds to benefit Haiti.

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News Briefs: Covenanters Making Headlines

by covwebster – Feb 8, 2010

MINNEAPOLIS, MN (February 8, 2010) – The Northwest Conference’s Founder’s Day worship service will be held at 6 p.m. February 21 at First Covenant Church. The evening’s theme is “Growing together in mercy,” and the service will have a special emphasis on responding with prayer and giving to the people of Haiti.

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Not the Same Old Grind: Coffee Entrepreneurs Help Others

by covwebster – Feb 8, 2010

BRANDON, SD (February 8, 2010) – Pat and Marge McClanahan started their coffee roasting business as a way to pay for their seminary education. That hasn’t worked out, but it is helping to fund an orphanage in Haiti as well as other mission work around the world.

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Organist Honored for Half-Century of Musical Service

by covwebster – Feb 2, 2010

MINNEAPOLIS, MN (February 2, 2010) – Gordon “Gordy” Ahlquist first started playing organ during worship services for First Covenant Church when he was a teenager.

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Efrem Smith Nominated to Lead Pacific Southwest Conference

by covwebster – Jan 22, 2010

CHICAGO, IL (January 22, 2010) – Efrem D. Smith has been nominated to replace Evelyn M.R. Johnson as superintendent of the Pacific Southwest Conference of the Evangelical Covenant Church (ECC), it was announced today.

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Covenant Churches Responding to Haiti Crisis

by covwebster – Jan 15, 2010

NEW BRIGHTON, MN (January 15, 2010) – Members of Salem Covenant Church in New Brighton, Minnesota, mobilized Wednesday night to help pack 18,000 meals on behalf of Feed My Starving Children (FMSC), an organization with which they have worked for several years, says Pastor Mark Pattie.

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News Briefs: Covenanters Making Headlines

by covwebster – Jan 13, 2010

CHICAGO, IL (January 13, 2010) – A book review in The Christian Century notes the Evangelical Covenant Church’s innovative work in adapting to changing missional needs.

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Funeral Service Saturday for Donald Elmberg

by covwebster – Jan 8, 2010

SHOREWOOD, MN (January 8, 2010) – Funeral services for retired Evangelical Covenant Church Pastor Donald Elmberg, 85, will be conducted at 11 a.m. Saturday at Albin Chapel in Eden Prairie. He died December 29.

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