Brian Jon Alnes, executive director of Lake Beauty Bible Camp in Long Prairie, Minnesota, died January 4. He was 53.

Retired Covenant minister Herbert Hedstrom died December 27 at his home in Elgin, Illinois. He was 81.

Retired Covenant missionary Vivian Louise Edstrom died December 14. She was 95.

Retired Covenant pastor Charles Ray Vaughan died November 12. He was 81.

Virginia Mae Cervin, widow of Covenant pastor Russell August Cervin, died on Thanksgiving, November 25, in Oakland, California. She was 99.

Retired Covenant pastor Joe Elick died on November 5. He was 81. 

Gerald (“Jerry”) Vincent Stenberg, retired Covenant pastor and former superintendent of the Canada Conference, died October 26. He was 97.

John Raymond Hunt, former secretary of the Evangelical Covenant Church, died suddenly at home in Maplewood, Minnesota, on October 23. He was 71.

Roger Leroy Quam, one of the mission founders of the Evangelical Covenant Church of South Sudan and Ethiopia, died Friday, October 1.

Retired Covenant minister Dennis Clark Olson died on September 18. He was 86.