Covenant News

Spooner Promoted to New Position at CMB

CHICAGO (August, 1999) - Harold Spooner has been promoted to the position of vice president of Outreach Ministries for Covenant Ministries of Benevolence (CMB), it has been announced by Paul V. Peterson, CMB president. In his new role, Spooner will continue as the director of Compassion, Mercy, and Justice.

Spooner joined the organization in 1997, coming from Stony Brook in New York State where he served as director of student diversity and a faculty member (Stony Brook is a private Christian prep school). Spooner previously worked for the Reformed Church in America as program director for the Douglas Tubman Christian Center in the Robert Taylor housing project in Chicago from 1975 to 1979. He also served as area director (1980-1987) and regional director (1987-92) of Young Life in Chicago.

A graduate of Houghton College in New York, Spooner holds a Master in Theology degree from Fuller Seminary in California. He and his wife, Cheryl, have three children: Matt, a student at Northwestern University; Melinda, attending Davidson College in North Carolina; and Harold, a sophomore at Fenwick High School in Chicago.

"Harold has demonstrated outstanding leadership and a unique ability to mobilize persons throughout the Covenant to work as partners in extending hands to help those in need," Peterson said in making the announcement. "In his new role, he will continue to coordinate and facilitate these efforts of reconciliation and will have expanded responsibilities to ensure that the new outreach ministries of Covenant Ministries of Benevolence are connected and integrated into the denomination's plan for local churches to plant new ministries," Peterson said. "I encourage each of you to join me in upholding Harold daily by remembering him and his work in prayer."

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