CHICAGO, IL (October 30, 2017) – A memorial service for Donald A. Njaa, executive secretary emeritus of the ECC Department of Ministry, will be conducted at 3 p.m. on Saturday, November 4, at North Park Covenant Church. Njaa died Saturday morning at the age of 87.
A full obituary is available here.
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.
With no children and no volunteers left after the pandemic, a North Minneapolis church restarted Vacation Bible School anyway, praying for twenty kids to show up.
Why is Ananias and Sapphira’s punishment so harsh? An honest reckoning with difficult passages.
