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Doing the Impossible Keeps Gymnast Flipping Out
PAXTON, IL (June 15, 2010) – “I love being in the air,” says 14-year-old Garret Waterstradt. “It’s fun to do all the crazy stuff people think is impossible.”
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News Briefs: Covenanters Making Headlines
CHICAGO, IL (June 9, 2010) – Preaching Magazine recently named The Company of the Preachers: A History of Biblical Preaching from the Old Testament to the Modern Era, written by retired Evangelical Covenant Church minister David Larsen, as one of the 25 most influential books on preaching in the last 25 years.
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Edgebrook Youth to Assist Disaster Relief in Guatemala
EDGEBROOK, IL (June 2, 2010) – A mission team comprised of teenagers from Edgebrook Covenant Church can expect to do disaster relief work when they arrive in Guatemala next month.
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News Briefs: Covenanters Making Headlines
CHICAGO, IL (May 28, 2010) – People buying items can now easily make a donation to Paul Carlson Partnership at the same time.
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Registration Opens for Lake Geneva Benefit Walk
LAKE GENEVA, WI (May 27, 2010) – Walks of up to 26 miles around Lake Geneva to benefit New Day for Children are being sponsored by Women Ministries of the Central Conference of the Evangelical Covenant Church.
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Carpenter’s Place – Where Lives Can Be Rebuilt
ROCKFORD, IL (May 25, 2010) – Allan and Cathy Barsema purchased a run-down building in a rough section of town and rehabilitated it so he could house his construction company offices there. They never imagined that someday the building would become Carpenter’s Place, where the lives of homeless people could be rebuilt.
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Obituary
Memorial Service Conducted for Arlene Johnson
ROCKFORD, IL (May 21, 2010) – A memorial service was conducted today at First Evangelical Covenant Church of Rockford for Arlene (Anderson Strand) Johnson, a retired missionary to Alaska. Strand, 85, died May 17.
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Holmstad Rates High in National Satisfaction Survey
BATAVIA, IL (May 14, 2010) – Residents at Michealsen Health Center, the skilled-nursing facility at The Holmstad, a Covenant Retirement Community, think it is a great place to live, according to a nationwide survey that sought opinions of nursing home residents about their communities.
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Church Plant Has Place to Meet – Now Needs Chairs
CHAMPAIGN, IL (May 12, 2010) – Berean Covenant Church was able to hold services on Easter, but not the week after or on Palm Sunday because they didn’t have a place to meet.
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Change in Emphasis Credited for Increased Participation
CHICAGO, IL (May 6, 2010) – The Central and Northwest Conference Women Ministries experienced dramatic increases in attendance during their annual meetings this year because they radically changed the formats and moved the dates, leaders say.
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