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Keystone Challenge Nears First-Year Goal
CHICAGO, IL (June 23, 2003) - Nearly $500,000 of additional support for Covenant
world mission has been committed as part of the Keystone Challenge
presented during last year's annual meeting of the Evangelical Covenant
Church in Keystone, Colorado.
The challenge came in response to a motion by Ted Smith, pastor of First
Covenant Church in Sacramento, and approved by delegates.
"We all are thankful to God for the heart that local Covenant churches have
for mission," said Donn Engebretson, executive vice president, in preparing
to address delegates attending the 118th Annual Meeting that begins
Thursday morning in Rosemont, Illinois. "A special thank you is due to Ted
Smith who gave leadership to bringing God's call to the church to fully
support Covenant world mission," Engebretson said.
Local Covenant churches have given approximately $312,000 as of May 31,
with another $176,000 still to come, Engebretson noted. The funds are being
used to support Covenant world mission ministries, "to ensure that our
missionaries remain fully engaged in the ministries to which they have been
called," Engebretson said. The request to local churches was to commit
additional funds each year over and beyond normal budgeted support for the
denomination to provide additional world mission support.
"I would like to especially thank local Covenant churches for their
generosity to mission around the world," Engebretson said. "Together we can
make a difference in the lives of people."
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