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San Diego Church Celebrates 50 Years
SAN DIEGO, CA (November 11, 2002) - Glenn R. Palmberg, president of the
Evangelical Covenant Church, was the guest preacher at morning worship
service for College Center Covenant Church yesterday as the congregation
continued celebrating its 50th anniversary.
The church had a dinner on November 2 and Gary Walter, executive
minister
for the Department of Church Growth and Evangelism, spoke at the worship
service the following morning.
College Center Covenant was officially organized and incorporated as an
independent church November 11, 1952, with 102 charter members. Its
initial
worship service was held exactly one year earlier in the basement of the
church (stage one of a multi-phase building project). A sanctuary was
built
for $80,000 with help from a Frontier Friends
campaign and the congregation held its first worship service there in
May 1956.
First Covenant Church of San Diego had purchased a building lot in East
San
Diego in August 1950 for the facility and Frank Poole was called to
pastor
the new church plant four months later. Two charter members, Virginia
Carlson and Sara Wittman, are still active in the church's ministries.
Sara's son, Dale, has served as the choir director for many years.
Virginia's son, Kenneth, is now superintendent of the Midwest Conference
while another son, Russell, is pastor of Forest Park Covenant Church in
Muskegon, Michigan.
Marc Bellaart has been pastor at College Center Covenant during the past
10
years. Among other things, College Center Covenant has assisted the
transition of numerous Sudanese refugees into East San Diego and into
the
congregation.
For more information about the church and its ministries, call Bellaart
or
Betty Thoner at
619-582-0226.
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