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Covenant Team Teaching Camping Principles in Thailand

by covwebster – Mar 19, 2010

CHICAGO, IL (March 19, 2010) – Three directors of Evangelical Covenant Church camps are traveling today (Friday) to Thailand, where they will spend roughly two weeks helping develop a program in that country.

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Photos from Tomé, Chile

by covwebster – Mar 18, 2010

TOMÉ, CHILE (March 18, 2010) – Two Covenant Church of Chile congregations are helping provide their communities and others with education, trauma counseling, food and water as the country struggles to help its citizens following the February 27 earthquake.

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Chile Congregations Reaching Out to Help Neighbors

by covwebster – Mar 18, 2010

TOMÉ, CHILE (March 18, 2010) – Two Covenant Church of Chile congregations are helping provide their communities and others with education, trauma counseling, food and water as the country struggles to help its citizens following the February 27 earthquake.

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Haiti: Transition from Relief to Rehab Under Way

by covwebster – Mar 17, 2010

PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI (March 17, 2010) – Covenant World Relief (CWR) partners in Haiti are beginning to transition their work from relief to rehabilitation and development while continuing to meet current needs – which remain desperate, says Director Dave Husby.

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Missionaries Returning to Congo: Familiar Territory, New Role

by covwebster – Mar 10, 2010

CHICAGO, IL (March 10, 2010) – Evangelical Covenant Church missionaries are returning to work in the Democratic Republic of Congo, but they are not going back in the pioneering role they once played – and that’s good for everybody.

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Photos from Farmers to Markets Program

by covwebster – Mar 10, 2010

LOKO, CONGO (March 10, 2010) – The first office for the new Farmers to Markets program sponsored by the Paul Carlson Partnership (PCP) has opened. Farmers to Markets is a major new economic development program made possible by a grant to PCP by the U.S. Agency for International Development, USAID.

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Photos from the Chile Earthquake

by covwebster – Mar 8, 2010

DICHATO, CHILE (March 8, 2010) – Although many of their own homes have been heavily damaged or destroyed, members of the Covenant Church of Chile in Tomé are helping their neighbors 10 minutes away in Dichato, another community that was decimated by the earthquake and the tsunami that followed.

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U.S. Ministry Approaches Don’t Work Just Anywhere

by covwebster – Mar 3, 2010

MERCER ISLAND, WA (March 3, 2010) – Ken Lottis had plenty of experience ministering to college students in the United States and was confident his approach would be as effective in doing the same kind of outreach work in Brazil.

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Some Chilean Covenant Church Leaders Reported Safe

by covwebster – Mar 2, 2010

CHICAGO, IL (March 2, 2010) – Three Covenant Church of Chile (CCC) leaders and their immediate families are reported to be safe following Saturday’s earthquake that killed more than 700 people, but no word has been received about the status of others.

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Reports on Quake Survivors Slow to Emerge Amid Chaos

by covwebster – Mar 1, 2010

MCALLEN, TX (March 1, 2010) – Evangelical Covenant Church (ECC) leaders say downed communication systems have prevented them from learning the fate of Covenant Church of Chile (CCC) congregations following the 8.8 magnitude earthquake that devastated parts of the country early Saturday morning.

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