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Covenant Community Care: Caring for the Community During COVID-19
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Covenant Community Care is open and caring for the community during the COVID-19 pandemic. At the end of March, we transitioned to providing telehealth services at all sites and are seeing established patients in-person at our Michigan Avenue Clinic on a limited basis. As Detroit’s virus cases continue to surge, Covenant recently began participating in the Coronavirus Community Care Network – a city-wide effort to increase access to COVID-19 testing. It is a time of teamwork, sacrifice and tremendous need. But the story of Covenant has always included this reality.
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City Covenant Church: Donations Needed
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Please consider supporting City Covenant Church in Detroit, MI as they continue to feed people daily through the COVID-19 pandemic. They need:
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Pantry on the Corner at Journey Covenant Church
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Journey Covenant Church is shining the light of the Lord throughout their community of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio through their Pantry on the Corner Drive-Thru. Even amidst social distancing directives, they have been opening the pantry weekly on Monday evenings. Volunteers unload trucks, set up tables, pack boxes, move food to the parking lot, and clean up everything once finished. The …
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The Online Worship Experience: We’re Here to Help!
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We know that many of you have pulled together resources to make services available, whether through a video or audio streaming platform or other creative ways of connection. We recognize that seemingly overnight, you have had to become a “digital expert” of sorts so that you can continue connecting with your church family. Need help? Please email Dani Van Voorst at [email protected] with questions. If we can’t help you ourselves, we can point you to excellent resources.
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In response to the COVID-19 virus, the Evangelical Covenant Church Executive Board made the difficult but unanimous decision on Saturday, March 28, to cancel Gather 2020, which includes our 135th Annual Meeting, the annual meeting of the Ministerium, the Covenant ordination service, as well as all accompanying meetings and celebrations.
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This Year’s Good News Reports
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After careful consideration, we have decided to share this year's Good News Reports through featured articles in our GLC electronic newsletter. We believe this will be a great way to honor stories and share in greater detail the good God is doing in and through the church.
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We plan to feature one Good News Story each month over the next several months.
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We value each of your commitments to the work of the Lord, and we are grateful for the good news you share every day. We look forward to featuring four of this year’s stories!
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GLC Ministerial Annual Meeting
May 1, 2020 - 9am-12pm EDT
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GLC Annual Celebration 2020
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May 2, 2020 - 9am-12pm EDT
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The GLC Annual Celebration was designed to incorporate the business of the Annual Meeting and a celebration of the ministry of all that God has done in and through the churches of the Great Lakes Conference during 2019.
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Both of these meetings will be digital/virtual meetings through a webinar program by Zoom. We hope to see you there virtually!
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