In Memoriam

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.

Ruth Elaine Christensen (née Kristerson), retired Covenant missionary, died September 18. She was 96.

Alayne Helen Johnson, widow of Covenant pastor Clifford Johnson, died on September 18, 2021