Covenant News

Libertyville Covenant Church Celebrates 25 Years

LIBERTYVILLE, IL (November 19, 2002) - Glenn R. Palmberg, president of the Evangelical Covenant Church, was the featured speaker at a dinner Sunday marking the 25th anniversary of Libertyville Covenant Church.

The dinner and the day's two worship services honored the church's former pastors and six charter members who have worshipped with the congregation continuously since its beginning.

Among those on hand for the dinner were pastor Edmund Train, the "nucleus builder" who began working with a Libertyville area core group in 1976; Eldon Johnson, the church's first pastor, who arrived in 1977, the year the church's charter was signed by 32 members; and David Johnson, senior pastor from 1992 to 2001. Three former interim pastors, Herbert Jacobsen, Craig Swanson and Everett Jackson, were also present as was fo rmer intern pastor Timothy LaHann. Church chairman Owen Youngman conducted an interactive joint interview with the former pastors as part of the evening's program.

Charter members Robert and Karen North, George and Dolores Sessler and Gene and Beverly Sparks were honored and three other charter signers who were present also were recognized: Eldon and Harriet Johnson and Craig Sparks.

Dwight Nelson, who became senior pastor in August of this year, brought the message during the morning worship services It was the second week at which the church's new Rodgers organ, purchased after a fundraising drive earlier this year, was available to be used in worship.

Libertyville Covenant Church has been located at the corner of Illinois Highway 176 and St. Mary's Road in the Chicago suburb of Green Oaks since 1981, on a lot and in a building that were purchased with the help of two separate Frontier Friends (now Kingdom Builders) campaigns.

For more information about the church and its ministries, visit www.libcov.org.

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