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Newsletters Highlight Covenant Youth Activities
CHICAGO, IL (September 23, 2002) - Children, youth and young adults throughout
The Evangelical Covenant Church have been recognized for various activities
and achievements, as reflected in more than 200 local church newsletters
received by the Department of Communication.
Following are excerpts from those newsletters, grouped by conference or
world region:
CANADA
- Rainy River, Ontario: Evangelical Covenant Church of Rainy River teen
Shauna McInerny competed for a cooperative high school team in northern
Minnesota, making the Class A finals in the 200 and 400 meter races for
Lake of the Woods High School.
CENTRAL
- Crest Hill, Illinois: Booter West of Good Shepherd Evangelical Covenant
Church, a college junior, recently played on a United States-sponsored
baseball team that finished first in a tourney in Germany. West played
third base for Blackburn College last spring, helping his team win the
conference title and earn an NCAA Division III playoff berth. West also
kicked for the football team last fall.
- Naperville, Illinois: Stacy Dolan of Naperville Evangelical Covenant
Church spent part of her summer ministering to street children in Romania.
Dolan, a junior at North Park University in Chicago, helped lead a mountain
camping trip and saw three children receive Jesus Christ as savior and
Lord. She reported in a recent church newsletter, " . . . I feel that I
left Romania with an entirely new perspective on things. I learned a lot
about how much I depend on everyday comforts that allow me to forget how
much I need God. I also saw how desperately people around the world are in
need of the Lord, many for hope just to make it through the day. I was
reminded Jesus ate with the sinners, reached out to the prostitute and
loved the unlovely - and that is what I am called to do as a Christian. I
left knowing that my time serving in the mission is not yet complete . . .
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- Stillman Valley, Illinois: Valley Covenant Church teens Zach Amborn and
April Huber were honored recently in Boy Scouts and cheerleading
respectively. Amborn was awarded the Boy Scout Eagle award August 24 after
completing his Eagle Scout project. He repaired and restored a lion shaped
drinking fountain at Lion's Park in Lena, his hometown. Huber, a student at
Byron High School, was part of a squad that won the
Leadership Squad award at the Bradley University cheerleading camp this
summer. Her mother, Cathy, is the cheerleading coach.
GREAT LAKES
- Allegan, Michigan: Three youth from Christ Community Church received
special honors at the conclusion of the Team Tennis Midwest Sectional
championships in Indianapolis during the summer. Katie Haist won an
individual sportsmanship award in the 12-and-under division. Allison Haist
and Georgiann McClure were winners of the team sportsmanship award in the
14-and-under division. They are part of the Allegan tennis teams coached by
Gary and Heather Ellis and Jen Aldrich.
NORTH PACIFIC
- Olympia, Washington: Grace Community Covenant Church college student
Ben
Rorem won the 100 meter dash at the Northwest Conference track and field
meet in May and eventually qualified for the Division III national meet in
St. Paul, Minnesota.
NORTHWEST
- Plymouth, Minnesota: Matt Bradway of Plymouth Evangelical Covenant
Church was selected to represent the United States in a basketball tourney
in Switzerland, competing for People to People, an organization that is
affiliated with a regional basketball association.
ASIA
Jenni Husby, whose parents, David and Ronna are Covenant missionaries
serving as Asia regional coordinators in the Department of World Mission,
recently won a national writing contest for writing a haiku, a poem with a
five-seven-five syllable count. The
winning prose reads: Wrinkled old turtle/step by step she crawls through
life/slow, silent, steady.
For more about youth and young adults in the Covenant, regularly visit this
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