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Wallens Creek Celebrates 50 Years of Ministry
STICKLEYVILLE, VA (May 20, 2002) - Wallens Creek Covenant Church celebrated its
50th anniversary Sunday as more than 100 attended a worship celebration and
all-church potluck and campfire event.
Pastor Mark Anderson said that the average worship attendance at the church
is now 72, nearly triple what it was four years ago. Wallens Creek Covenant
began its ministry as part of the Covenant Mountain Mission project through
what was then called the Department of Home
Missions in the Evangelical Covenant Church.
Wallens Creek Covenant had its beginnings in 1952 with a building dedicated
May 18, 1952. Joseph C. Danielson of the denomination's Department of Home
Missions preached at the worship service. The church was officially
organized in the fall of 1955. The congregation is now
part of the Great Lakes Conference.
Anderson said that 19 people came to know Jesus Christ as savior during the
past year through the church's ministries, noting that the church also has
experienced financial improvement. It recently acquired property near the
church site and (along with Mulberry Covenant Church in Sneedville,
Tennessee) has received property title to the nearby Covenant Mountain
Mission Bible Camp under the auspices of CMMBC, Inc.
This summer, Edgebrook Covenant Church in Chicago will be cooperating with
the church in a July work project, which will include many upgrades to the
building. A Covenant church in Iron Mountain, Michigan, is also coming to
the church to help organize a puppet ministry.
For more information about Wallens Creek Covenant, call Anderson at
703-546-5388 or email him at anderson@mounet.com.
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