PHOENIX, AZ (June 2016) – Delegates to the 131st Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Covenant Church today elected two executive ministers and re-elected President Gary Walter to a third term.
John Wenrich was elected to guide Start and Strengthen Churches. Wenrich has served as the ECC director for congregational vitality for 10 years. He also has served as a church planter and revitalization pastor.
Mark Novak was re-elected to lead the Develop Leaders mission priority. It is his second term.
Eight churches met in a Minnesota town before there was a Covenant to belong to. What became the Northwest Conference is still going, 142 years later.
The president of CHET shares why the Covenant-affiliated Latino seminary matters more than ever—and what it will take to strengthen it.
The evacuation orders have been lifted. In Spokane, two congregations are settling in for the long work of rebuilding with their neighbors.
A call for the church to see single people as whole rather than waiting, and to build communities where they are truly known.
Righteous anger, witnessed through injustice on the ground, becomes a spiritual invitation to act rather than remain with clenched fists.
Three generations of Covenant women — Florence Towne, Carolyn Cedarleaf, and Jeannine Cedarleaf Nordlund — reveal how solidarity with neighbors facing injustice is caught, not taught.
