Proposed Final Agenda Posted for the 134th Annual Meeting

CHICAGO (May 29, 2019)–The proposed final agenda for the 134th Annual Meeting, to be held during Gather 2019, has been posted here. The full delegate notebook and additional details will be forthcoming.

The Annual Meeting represents the highest legislative body of the Evangelical Covenant Church. Local Covenant churches from North America are each invited to send two to seven delegates, depending on their size, to the Annual Meeting to vote on business matters of the Evangelical Covenant Church. The Covenant’s missionaries are also commissioned and its ministers ordained at Gather 2019, to be held June 27-29, 2019 in Omaha, Neb. Register for Gather at gather.covchurch.org.

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