ECC Leadership Changes Top Reader List in February

CHICAGO, IL (March 6, 2013) – Articles about changes in Evangelical Covenant Church leadership were among the most-read Covenant News Service stories for the month of February.

Greg Yee, currently serving as assistant superintendent of the Pacific Southwest Conference, was nominated to serve as the new North Pacific Conference superintendent. Meritt Sawyer was tapped to be the new executive director of the Paul Carlson Partnership. Donn Engebretson was honored during the Midwinter Conference for his years of service as he transitions from serving as executive vice president to the newly created role of director for Global Advancement.

To read these stories and others, click on the links.

Yee Nominated to Lead North Pacific Conference

CWR Unable to Use Campbell’s Soup Labels

Midwinter Conference Opens With Laughter, Song

Churches Asked to Dedicate One Sunday to Serve

When Crisis Calls for a Response – ‘You Just Do It’

Meritt Sawyer to Lead Paul Carlson Partnership

Emanuel Decision Ensures Future of Quality Care

Dr. Ben Carson Headlines CCC Detroit Event

Midwinter Speaker: Immigration Conversation Needs to Change

Engebretson Honored for Service and Leadership

Picture of The Covenant Companion

The Covenant Companion

The Covenant Companion brings together stories and voices that connect, inform, and inspire. Subscribe to our print edition.
CONTINUE READING

Explore More Stories & News

Features

A Story of God’s Pursuing Love: Nicki’s Journey at Rock Harbor

After a devastating job loss, Nicki Andersen made God a promise: she’d read the Bible from cover to cover. What followed was a conversion, a baptism, and a community at Rock Harbor Church that would expand to embrace her granddaughter too, in the midst of her most difficult moments.

Features

The Joy of Choosing Broccoli

Intellectual agreement isn’t the same as living it out. Through honest stories of allyship and real advocacy in ministry, Jessica explores what women and men must do to build teams where everyone truly flourishes and grows stronger together.

Features

Jochebed: Lessons My Mother Taught Me

Julie Bromley traces a line from Moses’s mother, Jochebed, whose very name carried the glory of God, to her own mother, a Sunday school teacher and lifelong Bible student who taught her to ask hard questions and know who she belongs to.

Features

The Kitchen Where Work Is Prayer

How Covenant pastor and church planter Alex Song went from addiction and a Korean monastery to opening a community kitchen in Windsor, Ontario, where they feed neighbors, train teenagers, and create spaces of belonging.

Arts & Culture

Life or Death Circumstances

Adapting content from his new book, Don’t Despise Our Youth, Covenant pastor David A. Washington makes the case that the youth crisis gripping urban America is, at its core, a church problem. He proposes that we stop ministering to young people and start raising them up to minister to each

Features

Two Camps, One Centennial

Mission Springs and Covenant Point celebrate their 100th birthdays this year. From scrappy, faith-fueled beginnings, both ministries have become enduring places where generations of Covenant kids encounter God in creation, community, and a kind of holy foolishness.

CovChurch Now is a weekly email to share news, stories, and resources with the Covenant family.