LOS ANGELES, CA (May 16, 2011) – Scores of volunteers from Covenant churches serve a meal to hundreds of homeless individuals who, around mid-day, would begin to find their way to the Fred Jordan Center to hear a message of hope to feed their souls and a warm meal to curb the hunger. The Saturday meal is a weekly ritual at the center.
Crescendo began as a pilot project in 2016 to help people sixty and older keep living fully with God and each other. For its tenth anniversary, its founders look back at how the ministry has grown and changed.
Tammy Swanson-Draheim, president of the Evangelical Covenant Church, has been elected president of the International Federation of Free Evangelical Churches (IFFEC).
In a small California town with no senior center, Cathy LaManna started a weekly game afternoon at church. Three years in, the people who come are treated like family, and some of them have started coming on Sundays, too.
How a young man who grew up in a devout Roman Catholic family became a vocal atheist and then found a home in the Evangelical Covenant Church.
Stories from Covenant youth ministry about a student-led worship night, a paid summer service program, and a forty-year-old gathering for middle schoolers.
Sophia A. Magallanes-Tsang traces how friendships in the Latina community shaped the way she reads Scripture.
