Ecuador: Mission School Trains Church Leaders With Placements in Amazon Congregations
A mission training school known as APG29, meeting in Baeza in eastern Ecuador, is at the end of its second month, and its students have just returned from a week
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United States: How the Covenant’s Crescendo Ministry Grew With Older Adults
The Evangelical Covenant Church has traced the growth of Crescendo, its ministry with people aged sixty and older, from a pilot project to a team of twenty-five unpaid coaches
United States: Evangelical Covenant Church Moves BLESS Sunday to January
The Evangelical Covenant Church (ECC) has announced that BLESS Sunday, its annual focus on evangelism, will move from the Sunday after Easter to the Sunday after Midwinter, beginning on 24
Latin America: Evangelical Alliance Assembly in Costa Rica Sets a Three-Year Roadmap
More than 100 leaders representing national evangelical alliances from more than 20 countries gathered in San José, Costa Rica, for the 13th General Assembly of the Latin Evangelical Alliance (Alianza
United States: A Church That Meets on a Soccer Field — and Bought the Sports Complex
Destiny Church in Twinsburg, Ohio, gathers for worship on the indoor soccer field of a sports complex called The Edge, with rows of folding chairs and a sound system carried
United States: A Student-Led Worship Night and Forty Years of Camp — Covenant Churches Celebrate Youth Ministry
A roundup published by the Evangelical Covenant Church in the United States has gathered four youth-ministry stories from across the denomination. The most striking comes from Newport Covenant Church
United States: Alliance Workers Reach West African Fulani Asylum Seekers From a New York Park Bench
A Christian and Missionary Alliance couple who spent ten years working in West Africa have begun a new ministry among Fulani asylum seekers in New York City, starting from a
Ecuador: Covenant Church Weighs a Decade of Growth as Its Leader Calls for Clearer Goals
The Covenant Church of Ecuador is growing, and its general secretary wants it to set a clearer common direction for the coming decade — including the goal of reaching 20,000
Canada: How a Winnipeg Living Room Grew Into a Coast-to-Coast Covenant Family
The Evangelical Covenant Church of Canada traces its beginnings to 1874, when two Swedish immigrants, Monsby Peterson and Reader Johnson, stepped off a boat in Winnipeg, Manitoba — then a frontier
Honduras: Church Relief Partner Brings Running Water to Families in the Lempira Mountains
A first-ever “vision trip” organised by Covenant World Relief and Development (CWRD), the relief and development arm of the Evangelical Covenant Church in the United States, took a group
United States: Toledo Church Marks Fifteen Years in the City's Oldest Neighbourhood
That Neighborhood Church in North Toledo, Ohio, is marking fifteen years since its formal launch on 2 October 2010. The congregation serves Vistula, the oldest neighbourhood in the city, and
Cuba: From an Empty Pantry to a Dining Hall Serving Fifty Elderly People a Week
In the western Cuban city of Cárdenas, about 150 kilometres from Havana, an Alliance pastor and his wife who once knelt in prayer before a completely empty pantry now run
United States: Billy Graham's Granddaughter Nominated as US Ambassador for Religious Freedom
The United States has nominated Jane "Cissie" Graham Lynch, a granddaughter of evangelist Billy Graham, to serve as its ambassador for international religious freedom. The nomination, announced by
United States: First Alaska Native MARC Pilot Flies Children to Remote Bible Camps
Joel Oyoumick Jr. has become the first Alaska Native pilot for Missionary Aviation Repair Center (MARC), a ministry based in Soldotna, Alaska, that flies children and staff to Bible camps
Why Our Baptist Forebears Wouldn’t Support Blasphemy Laws
A recent “dustup” over a new book by R. Albert Mohler Jr. — president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary — has put an old question back on the table: may the
United States: EFCA Board Nominates Rev. Carlton P. Harris as Next President
The Evangelical Free Church of America (EFCA) has announced Rev. Carlton P. Harris as its nominee to serve as the denomination's next president. The recommendation follows what church
United States: Alliance Church Plant 'Catalyst Life' Takes Root in Bend, Oregon
In Bend, Oregon, a new Alliance church plant called Catalyst Life Alliance is taking root under the leadership of church planters Crystal and Jesse Garnett. The couple held their first
United States: Covenant's Midsouth Conference Begins Search for a New Superintendent
The Midsouth Conference of the Evangelical Covenant Church has opened a search for its next superintendent, inviting nominations from across the denomination through 1 October 2026. The superintendent gives spiritual