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Delegates welcomed 25 churches with a cumulative approximate membership
of 1,570 and cumulative average attendance of 4,347.
Several of the churches are adoptions into the denomination. These
include St. Paul's (Wolf's) Church of York, Pennsylvania, which was
founded in 1763 and formerly was a member of the United Church of
Christ; Four Rivers Church of Paducah, Kentucky; Cornerstone Church of
Boston, Massachusetts; Community Evangelical Covenant Church of Chicago,
Illinois; Puna Congregational Covenant Church of Kea'au, Hawaii; and New
Jerusalem Covenant Church of Chicago.
The churches also are varied in their worship styles and ministries. The
House Covenant Church of Chicago has a hip-hop service that reaches
approximately 500 youth and young adults each week. Artisan Covenant
Church offers a variety of worship styles to reach a postmodern
generation. Lifehouse Covenant Church has a strong recovery ministry.
Metro Community Covenant Church of Fort Lee, New Jersey, meets in a
Jewish community center and has a ministry called Justice, Advocacy and
Compassion that has organized homeless dinners and ministers to
illiterate children and single mothers.
Several churches were launched with the help of other Covenant churches.
A cluster of Covenant churches supported the pioneer ministry of Hope
Covenant Church in El Dorado, Kansas. First Covenant Church of Portland,
Oregon, sponsored Vibrant Covenant Church.
Following is the list of new churches, grouped by conference, with
average membership and attendance figures following each church's name:
Central Conference
East Coast Conference
Great Lakes Conference
Midwest Conference
North Pacific Conference
Pacific Southwest Conference
Southeast Conference
Twenty-Five Churches Welcomed into Membership
GRAND RAPIDS, MI (June 15) - Welcoming new churches into membership of
the Evangelical Covenant Church always is a highlight at the annual
meetings, and this year was no exception during the denomination's 121st
Annual Meeting.
Several of the new churches continue to represent ethnic diversity, as
55 percent of them minister to congregations of color. These ethnic and
multi-ethnic congregations include Community Evangelical Covenant Church
of Chicago, a first-generation Filipino congregation; and QueensWest
Covenant Church, with a large Asian population; a largely
African-American congregation.
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