News Releases
Work with Us! Covenant Offices Seeks Creative Director, Director of Evangelism
CHICAGO (May 17, 2019)—What is God calling you to? Could it be a career with Covenant Offices? Could it be a merging of your character, your competencies, and your identity in Christ? We invite you to peruse the Evangelical Covenant Church’s job openings and discern whether you may be called to serve with us as…
ECC Names Marilyn Williams Director of Women’s Initiatives
CHICAGO (May 15, 2019)—Marilyn Williams has catalyzed women throughout the world through speaking engagements and Scripture studies, she has pastored churches, taught seminary students and led women’s ministries at a California megachurch. Now, she begins a new role at the Evangelical Covenant Church as its first director of women’s initiatives. She starts May 16. The…
Nominations Open for President of Centro Hispano de Estudios Teológicos (CHET)
LOS ANGELES (May 9, 2019)—The Centro Hispano de Estudios Teológicos, or CHET, a leadership training center of the Evangelical Covenant Church, is accepting nominations for president. Its current president, Edward Delgado, will retire on November 1. A 12-member Presidential Nominating Committee, comprised of former and current CHET board members, Latino and Latina pastors, CHET faculty,…
Companion Receives Top Awards
CHICAGO, IL (May 3, 2019) — The Covenant Companion was honored with eleven awards from the Associated Church Press (ACP) and nine awards from the Evangelical Press Association (EPA) for works published in 2018. Five first-place awards included recognition in the categories of In-Depth Coverage, Interview, Column, Letters to the Editor, and the tongue-in-cheek category,…
Proposed Covenant Bylaw Changes
To our beloved Covenant Family: We pray that you and your ministries are filled with the resurrection hope in this Easter season. In two months, we will gather for the 134th Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Covenant Church. We look forward to connecting with delegates from Covenant churches and celebrating our ministry together. If you…
ECC’s AVA and Project Free Ministries Head in New Direction; Meagan Gillan Serves as Interim Leader until July
CHICAGO (April 10, 2019)—As part of the Evangelical Covenant Church’s continued commitment to come alongside women and men who seek to heal from abuse and trauma, the denomination announces a new direction for the Advocacy for Victims of Abuse (AVA) and Project Free, the Covenant’s renewed anti-sex trafficking effort. AVA will move from the Make…
Paul Lessard Nominated as ECC’s Executive Minister of Start and Strengthen Churches
CHICAGO (March 22, 2019)—Paul Lessard has taught church history to college students, helped plant six churches across two countries and served as senior pastor at a Covenant church in Colorado. He now brings his love and passion for local churches to the entire Evangelical Covenant church denomination as its nominee for executive minister of Start…
Paul Robinson Nominated as ECC’s Executive Minister of Love Mercy and Do Justice
CHICAGO (March 22, 2019)—When Paul Robinson envisions justice work, he sees opportunities to engage everywhere—cities, suburbs and rural areas—and in partnership with everyone—local churches, schools, governments, nonprofit organizations, and businesses. “I’m of the strong opinion that the work of Love Mercy and Do Justice is universal work,” says Robinson. “I really believe there are injustices…
March 20: New Deadline to Apply for Director of Women’s Initiatives
CHICAGO, IL (March 14, 2019) – Applications for the Evangelical Covenant Church’s newly created position of director of women’s initiatives will be accepted through March 20. This position will be housed in the President’s office because of its high emphasis on advancing women in collaboration with all five mission priorities: Develop Leaders, Love Mercy Do…
Deadline to Apply for ECC Discipleship Director: March 20
CHICAGO, IL (March 14, 2019) — The deadline to apply for the newly created position of director of discipleship in the Make and Deepen (MDD) mission priority is Wed., March 20. The position will oversee three areas: Develop a coaching system for churches to design their own intentional discipleship pathways. This leader will work with…