No Roads, No Problem
Joel Oyoumick Jr. is the pilot who gets kids from Alaska’s remote villages to Bible camp—a journey that, by any other route, would take days.
Jelani Greenidge
September 22, 2026
Joel Oyoumick Jr. is the pilot who gets kids from Alaska’s remote villages to Bible camp—a journey that, by any other route, would take days.
In August, the National Association of Evangelicals welcomed the Evangelical Covenant Church as one of three denominations to join the organization.
The evacuation orders have been lifted. In Spokane, two congregations are settling in for the long work of rebuilding with their neighbors.
In the kingdom of God, greatness is never measured by how far one can rise above others. Rather, greatness is recognized by how deeply one can love and serve others. By kingdom-of-God standards, Curtis Peterson was a great man!
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.
One Covenant Community is a five-year effort to strengthen pastoral leadership across the Covenant, and North Park has three open positions to support the work.
Last week, delegates gathered to mark fifty years of ordaining women, share stories of God’s faithfulness, welcome new churches, and ordain and commission new ministers.
Christine “Chris” Cikanek of the Evangelical Covenant Church of Princeton, Illinois, received the Theodore W. Anderson Award for outstanding lay ministry at the 141st Annual Meeting.
At the 141st Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Covenant Church Russell Jeung was honored with the Irving C. Lambert Award for Excellence in Urban Ministry.
Rev. Dr. Paul E. Larsen, seventh president of the Evangelical Covenant Church, passed away peacefully on May 26, 2026, in La Quinta, California. He was 92.
